New York baseball fans pumped to have the All-Star Game back in the city
With the All-Star Game coming to New York Tuesday for the first time in five years, baseball fans citywide are gearing up for one of the biggest shows of the year.
"I'm very excited for the All-Star game to be at Citi Field this year because I've been a Mets fan my whole life," said Tyler Edgar, 19, of Hoboken. "I'm mostly looking forward to the attention that Citi Field and the Mets will get."
Fellow Mets fan Daniel Wu, 28, of Staten Island, agreed.
"It's good for the Mets to have their home sort of shown off," he said. "It's just an exciting time in general for baseball any year, and now we get to have that in our home."
New York last hosted the game in 2008 during the last season at the old Yankee Stadium, and the Mets haven't hosted since 1964, the opening year of Shea Stadium.
The festivities kick off at 1 p.m. Tuesday with the All-Star Red Carpet Show and Parade, which will stretch along 42nd Street between Second and Sixth avenues, where this year's All-Stars stroll down some 80,000 feet of red carpet. All-Star Fanfest at the Javits Center runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The game is set to kick off at 8 p.m.
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