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"On Thursday, June 1, 2017, Rudal "Rudy" Ahlen, who turns 102 on July 29 and has been a Mets fan since Day One in 1962 after nearly a half-century as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, was treated to a game and a meet-and-greet with some players after the organization read a Newsday story about her watching Opening Day at the Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Commack, where she lives and shouts at the screen when they lose.....
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseba...ame-1.13700428
"The occasion was an early birthday celebration for Ahlen, who turns 102 on July 29 and who after nearly a half-century as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan has been a Mets fan since Day One in 1962.
“This is a big thing for me. I just still can’t believe all this is happening,” she said after getting to meet David Wright, Jacob deGrom and Lucas Duda and before being escorted to the first row behind home plate in the Wilpon family’s seats....
"Why hadn’t she attended a game in all those decades in Brooklyn and later in several towns on Long Island?
“Because I couldn’t afford it,” she said. “And I was raising eight children . . . I didn’t have the time or money, so I couldn’t go. I was satisfied with the radio, until television came.”
"On Thursday, June 1, 2017, Rudal "Rudy" Ahlen, who turns 102 on July 29 and has been a Mets fan since Day One in 1962 after nearly a half-century as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, was treated to a game and a meet-and-greet with some players after the organization read a Newsday story about her watching Opening Day at the Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Commack, where she lives and shouts at the screen when they lose.....
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseba...ame-1.13700428
"The occasion was an early birthday celebration for Ahlen, who turns 102 on July 29 and who after nearly a half-century as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan has been a Mets fan since Day One in 1962.
“This is a big thing for me. I just still can’t believe all this is happening,” she said after getting to meet David Wright, Jacob deGrom and Lucas Duda and before being escorted to the first row behind home plate in the Wilpon family’s seats....
"Why hadn’t she attended a game in all those decades in Brooklyn and later in several towns on Long Island?
“Because I couldn’t afford it,” she said. “And I was raising eight children . . . I didn’t have the time or money, so I couldn’t go. I was satisfied with the radio, until television came.”
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