Daniel Conrad has had a lot of time to think about his highs and lows as a baseball fan. There he was in Yankee Stadium on Oct. 1, 1961: The day Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s unbreakable record with his 61st home run . One year later he was seated within Manhattan’s cavernous Polo Grounds , watching the New York Mets host the San Francisco Giants. The Mets lost 120 games that year and 111 more in ’63, but they always won when Conrad was in attendance.

There he was at Candlestick Park on Oct. 17, 1989 — the Earthquake Game . And he was in the stands of Oracle Park on Oct. 16, 2021 — when everyone but umpire Gabe Morales knew that Wilmer Flores did not swing , but Morales rung him up anyway, curtailing the Giants’ miracle season.

Conrad, a big Flores fan, has had time to think abou

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