A pair of lucky baseball fans will get to take cuts off New York pitching greats John Franco or Dwight “Doc” Gooden in Brooklyn next week.
Two ticket holders to the New York-Penn League All-Star Game at the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, MCU Park in Coney Island, Aug. 19 will be picked at random to play in a celebrity softball game before the short-season single-A stars take the field.
The softball cast includes all-time Mets saves leader Franco, Yankees and Mets great Gooden, radio talk show host and 1988 NFL MVP Boomer Esiason, his radio sidekick Craig Carton, WNYW-TV “Good Day New York” host Rosanna Scotto, 1984 Olympic boxing gold medalist Mark Breland, NBC “Talk Stoop” host Cat Greenleaf and Brooklyn-native former boxing great Paulie Malignaggi.
Teams have not been chosen yet, but Brooklyn natives Franco and Scotto have already been tabbed as captains of the two squads.
Franco and Gooden are expected to be on separate teams so they can both pitch.
To be eligible for the softball drawing, tickets have to be purchased before the random pick is made at the Cyclones game this Thursday,
Ticket buyers who bought with a credit card are already entered but fans who purchased with cash need to notify the box office that they want to be in the lottery.
The New York-Penn League features fresh-out-of-college prospects. Yankees hopefuls play for the Staten Island Yankees while Mets prospects suit up for the Cyclones.