for breaking news visit www.timesnewsweekly.com OCTOBER 22, 2015 • times 51 Queens College baseball stadium named after former student athlete Queens pols make pizza bet with Illinois pols over Mets-Cubs series BY ROBERT POZARYCKI rpozarycki@queenscourier.com @robbpoz You wanna pizza this, Illinois? With the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs fighting for the National League pennant, Queens state senators have placed a tasty bet with their members of the Illinois Senate over the outcome of the championship series. State Senators Joseph Addabbo, Leroy Comrie, Michael Gianaris and Jose Peralta announced the wager on Tuesday morning outside Citi Field in Flushing, where the Mets won the first two games of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Cubs this weekend. The Mets took a commanding 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series Tuesday night with a 5-2 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. They went for the series clincher Wednesday night (after press time) with another young starting pitching prospect, Steven Matz, taking the mound for the Mets against the Cubs’ Jason Hammel. Before the NLCS started, Addabbo and his fellow Queens senators agreed to the wager with Illinois Senate President John Cullerton and his colleagues. Should the Mets win, the Illinois Senate will ship deep-dish Chicago-style pizza to the Queens senators; should the Cubs prevail, the Queens senators will send to the Illinois Senate thin-crust New Yorkstyle pizza. The losing delegation must also congratulate the winning team on the floor of its Senate chambers, and the senators must wear the winning team’s apparel during a cleanup day within their districts. With the Mets needing two more wins to defeat the Cubs and advance to the World Series, Addabbo and his colleagues expressed confidence that Queens’ home team will ultimately prevail. “There are two things I know for sure: New York has better baseball and better pizza,” Addabbo said. “I hope that Senator Cullerton looks good in blue and orange, and I wish our counterparts in Chicago the best of luck in coming up with a creative way to keep the deep-dish pizza warm while on its way to Queens.” The Mets took Games 1 and 2 of the NLCS before sellout crowds at Citi Field on Saturday and Sunday, carried by the strong pitching of starters Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard and the bat of second baseman Daniel Murphy, who hit a home run in the first inning of each game. Murphy again homered in Game 3, while starter Jacob deGrom held the Cubs to two runs over seven innings. The Mets also benefited from two costly Cubs miscues: Yoenis Cespedes scored in the sixth on a Michael Conforto strikeout that got away from catcher Miguel Montero; and David Wright scored in the seventh on a sharp line drive off Cespedes’ bat that Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber couldn’t handle. One more win will give the Mets their first National League pennant since 2000, while the Cubs are looking to break a 70-year-old pennant drought. ORTHODONTICS WWW.GLENRIDGEORTHODONTIST.COM Est. 1976 FREE* Consultation and Exam Medicaid Approved Diplomate, American Board of Orthodontics 65-34 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, NY 11385 Most Insurance Accepted As Partial or Full Payment 1-718-381-2965 1-718-386-8728 ©Times Newsweekly 2015-GLENRIDGE WWW.GLENRIDGEORTHODONTIST.COM Vincent J. Bilello, D.D.S., ABO Diplomate, Specialists in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics By Anthony Giudice agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @guidicereport What’s in a name? The Queens College Athletics Program named its baseball field “Hennekens Stadium” on Oct. 17, in honor of Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., class of 1963, who excelled in varsity basketball and baseball while a student at Queens College. The stadium’s new sign bearing Hennekens’ name was unveiled during the college’s homecoming weekend where Hennekens threw out the first pitch for a Queens College baseball team scrimmage game. “My amazing, fabulous, uneducated, working-class parents instilled in me the values of getting an excellent education — which Queens College provided to me — as well as the importance of giving back,” Hennekens said. “I am thrilled, honored and humbled on this occasion.” Known as “Flash” during his playing days, Hennekens was the team captain, high scorer and most valuable player for the school’s basketball team. He also won the Regan- Stein Award during his senior year. Hennekens was also the co-captain of the baseball team and received the Long Island Press Athlete- Scholar Award as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate. In addition to his athletic skills, Hennekens is also a world-renowned scientist, earning the #81 ranking by Science Heroes for “Most Lives Saved in History” for discovering that aspirin prevents a first heart attack and can prevent death when given during or after a heart attack. Hennekens has also conducted seminal research on health-promoting drug therapies and positive lifestyle changes related to smoking and obesity. In 2014, he was awarded the Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health for discovering the multiple hazards of smoking and oral contraceptives on heart attacks. As one of the top 100 graduates in Queens College history, Hennekens joins such luminaries as Paul Simon, Jerry Seinfeld and Marvin Hamlisch. He is the first, and only, inductee to both the Queens College Achievement and Queens College Athletics Halls of Fame. “This is a first for our Department of Athletics here at Queens College,” said China Jude, assistant vice president of athletics. “Dr. Hennekens is one of the many talented scholarathletes to pass through our doors. We appreciate his generous gift, his serving as an athletics volunteer and his research and scholarship that have profoundly impacted countless lives.” Currently, Hennekens serves as first Sir Richard Doll Professor and senior academic adviser to the dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fl. sports Photos courtesy Queens College Queens College has named their baseball field Hennekens Stadium after former student athlete Dr. Charles Hennekens.
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