By the fifth inning (score: 16-0), they were mostly concerned about how much longer they'd have to wait before the end of the game so they could participate in the promised postgame extravaganza: Every fan who wished to could run the bases, and people named Jerry got to go first. AND YOU WANT ME TO BE YOUR LATEX SALESMAN! She passed them out to appreciative fellow fans throughout the day.įans preferred talking Seinfeld with one another to watching the increasingly horrific game. Several puffy shirts of the kind Jerry once reluctantly wore appeared throughout the crowd, and on the team's seagull mascot.Įmily Donati, who had traveled nearly a hundred miles from Philadelphia to be there, had VANDELAY INDUSTRIES business cards printed up, with the fake e-mail address and the tagline. Another wore a jersey with the name KOKO on the back, an obscure reference to George's least-favorite office nickname. One guy dressed like Kramer, with a bushy wig and a pipe. Some fans reenacted the "Can you spare a square?" Seinfeld moment, whether they wanted to or not, giggling knowingly.įans carried giant cutouts of Seinfeld's and Hernandez’s faces. In a presumable coincidence, the women's restrooms ran low on toilet paper. That's because almost every nonbaseball moment was filled with something far more fun: a junior Mint toss, a cereal-eating contest, a marble-rye fishing race, a pick-or-scratch contest. Few people left even as the score shot farther and farther out of the Cyclones' favor, ending up at an 18-2 blowout.
The game sold out weeks in advance, and the vast majority of the crowd was not there for baseball. Never mind that this show went off the air sixteen years earlier. Keith Hernandez famously played himself in a 1992 episode, becoming a sore point between Jerry, the show's main character, and Elaine, who ends up dating Jerry's longtime idol. Vandelay Industries is the company that George, the balding schlub with a deficit of ambition, pretends to work for. The aspiring Elaines were reenacting the 1996 episode in which Elaine-the only woman among the four main characters, and the only one with any clear career ambition-loses the respect of her employees when she dances absurdly at a work function. It was Seinfeld appreciation night, and it was packed with activities that brought the show's trademark bouillabaisse of cultural references and inside jokes to life. This bizarre parade of nonsensical characters and references made plenty of sense to those who had clamored for the tickets.
If you do not understand why this procession of individuals was chosen, you did not belong at this game. Among the many who threw out "first" pitches: an importer/exporter, postal workers, architects, a latex salesman, and a New York resident named George Costanza.
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Inside, a lanky seventy-one-year-old with a backward baseball cap over his gray curls hocked ASSMAN license plates and MASTER OF MY DOMAIN sweatshirts. (A year later they were selling for up to $100 via online auction sites.)
There were reports of people later selling them for up to $60 to other desperate fans. This meant showing up at least three hours early. The first three thousand fans through the gate got bobblehead dolls that looked like former Mets player Keith Hernandez. A banner at the entrance to the field rebranded it "Vandelay Industries Park" for the day. On July 5, 2014, the team's stadium-nestled within Coney Island's boardwalk and hot dog stands-became its own carnivalesque attraction. And this was exactly what the sold-out crowd of 7,500 spectators had come for. They writhed and spasmed as if their lives depended on it. Only one woman could be crowned the Best Elaine.
Earth, Wind & Fire's "Shining Star" pumped through the speakers of the Brooklyn Cyclones' minor league stadium for the world’s most herky-jerky dance-off. THREE WOMEN IN BIG HAIR AND FLOWERED DRESSES-PLUS another in jeans-convulsed on the grass near third base.
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