A World Series Twist: First Loves Become the Enemy
I would come every time he would invite me, which was quite a bit.”
Luhnow was there for the first two games of the 1983 National League Championship Series against
the Philadelphia Phillies — a loss in the opener and a victory by Valenzuela in Game 2.
“I think for any city that hasn’t yet experienced it, it would be significant,” said
Friedman, 40, who was born in Houston and attended nearby Episcopal High School.
“It had a crack in it, and I don’t really remember how I got it — but probably someone that wasn’t him just saw me there hanging out.”
Friedman would play baseball at Tulane and, like Luhnow, work in business before joining a major league front office.
He added that ‘‘ ’86 scarred me some — I remember watching the World Series with the Mets and Red Sox, and it was painful.”
Of course, Friedman did not really give up the game.
“I was heartbroken — I swore off baseball,” said Friedman, who had witnessed Scott’s division-clinching no-hitter that September.