Sports Stories: New York Fan

Can fans of two professional baseball teams, egged on by the venom of sports talk radio and rubbing elbows on the city sidewalks and sports bars, co-exist in a city where baseball is king?

Yes, if they stay in their own boroughs. Queens has the Mets' Shea Stadium, the Bronx has Yankee Stadium, but on opening day, they both have ball-tossing, cigar-smoking, burger-flipping fans in their parking lots, hours before the first pitch. Here are some of them.