The funny thing? Michael Yalango wasn’t even all that much of a Mets fan. He’d grown up with the Brooklyn Dodgers as a kid on Staten Island, but that ride had ended 12 years earlier when they pulled up stakes and moved to California.
“They moved away,” Yalango says, “and I lost interest.”
By 1969, most of his sporting passions were wrapped around the Rangers — whose games he’d listen to on the radio with his father, Ward Wilson, and Bert Lee and Jim Gordon delivering the descriptions from the Old Garden and all across the NHL.