The drive to Maimonides Park was always special to Channing Austin.

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On the trek from Bedford-Stuyvesant, he passed by the Parade Ground, just blocks away from where Ebbets Field once stood and near where his parents still live.

He saw the fields he grew up playing on.

He bookended those trips by seeing the undulating tracks of the thrill rides at Luna Park in Coney Island, just beyond the outfield wall of the stadium where the Mets’ High-A affiliate plays its home games.