July 28, 200620 yr http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/438799p-369646c.html This season, the Yankees and Mets already have combined to sell the most tickets in New York baseball history - more than 1955's "Next Year," more than the 1969 Miracle and more than any of the Yanks' glory years of the late 1990s. The second-place Yankees, who lead the AL wild-card race despite devastating injuries, have sold four million tickets and top the majors in average attendance (51,568). The first-place Mets, buoyed by an influx of veteran stars and emerging, homegrown talent, have sold 3.1 million tickets and are fourth in average at 42,620. The two teams played each other in the most highly attended game in the majors this season - May 19 at Shea, when 56,289 watched the Mets' burgeoning star, David Wright, lash a two-out hit in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Yanks, 7-6. The Yanks believe they will draw at least 4.15 million for the season, which would be a team record, according to Lonn Trost, the club's chief operating officer. The Mets likely will sell about 3.5 million tickets, putting them at the same level they reached during their mid-'80s heyday, said Dave Howard, the team's executive VP of business operations. "We could approach a combined eight million," Howard said. "That's pretty remarkable."
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