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wyjgn I HmdvIMMOMqiiwnSM Groundskeeper Will AJmon cuts infield grass at Shea Stadium. Below left, Pete Flynn. Ace of the 'Farm Team A Series Where It Oughta Be: NY By Patricia Hurtado and David Firestone When little towns, like Boston, are graced with a World Series, they become temporarily insane, and feel the need to strut and preen. New York does, too, but in a muted fashion, knowing that it simply isn't cool to run around screaming about an event that has already occurred here 46 times. Until the game actually begins, that is.

At JJ. Mulligan's bar near Grand Central on Lexington Avenue, for example, theyre getting ready for the 1986 series between the Mets and the Red Sox, which begins tomorrow night. But they're not polishing the brass rails. Theyre simply installing a second TV at the for end of the bar. "Its those Boston explained Max Minkoff, the bartender, gesturing in the direction of the great railroad terminal 100 feet away where many Boston fans enter the city.

"They come to New York for anything and they go crazy, they pack the bar. They want to be close to their team." Beginning this afternoon, in fact, the Red Sox will be staying at the Grand Hyatt, which is part of the Grand Central complex. Blase hotel officials would prefer that fact remain a secret, but its difficult to keep under wraps, considering that all visiting major-league teams stay at the hotel during the regular season. The Hyatt bears no pennants or billboards urging either side to victory, and employees say theyre not particularly excited about the presence of a pennant-winning team in their midst. Bartenders around the building say players generally retire to their rooms quickly carousing not being conducive to razor-sharp play.

Last week, said a bartender who demanded anonymity, Houston Astros pitcher Dave Smith entered the hotel bar after giving up the Game 3 win- -Continued on Page 17 Pete Flynn has been tilling the oil of his meadow called Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, since 1962. Flynn grew up working the oil of his daddys farm in County Leitrim, Ireland, as a young bey before emigrating as a young man in his early 20s. He stood outside of the first-base about, let me see now, $11 and assorted change an hour, Td say. But just like a former, I keep me eye on the weather. I can usually tell when it will rain or not but if the weatherman conforms it well have 21 men.

Because those tarps are awfully heavy, a few hundred pounds, especially when they're wet. Flynn said it takes 10 to 11 men to roll out and then spread out each of the even, 100-foot nylon "tarps which cost $6,000 to $7,000 each and are made by Revere Plastics from Jersey. "It is form work," he said. Tm the foreman, and I have farmhands who work with me. Different times of the year a former needs more men.

It used to be there was a lot more men working foil time when the Jets were still here. We were walking on the crew-cut infield grass now, and he was checking for "davits in the infield which he says the infield fongo practice is most responsible for. The grass was a irfing blue-green and I asked him what kind it was. "Thats adelphi he said. "Has the best root system and a beautiful color and is best suited for this region all year round.

I prefer Gro-Well products. Best lime, mulch, and the 2610 fertilizer is the best Ive ever used. Magic, it is. The sod we buy from a Continued on Page 16 dugout looking onto his meadow and crunching work shoes into the odd crunchy day-colored sidelines. He has reddish, thick hair, green work pants and a fece the color Of a Shannon aim, on.

His rural Irish accent was still as thick as a blackthorn stick and his strong, large hands bore the leathery quality of a life spent dose to the earth. "We have a regular crew of five men daily," he said as he walked me around his piece of bucolic earth lopped in the middle of urban madness. "But when theres a home game and the weather is good, we usually have 14 men all out of Local 64 of the Theater and Amuse i ment Workers Union. Scale pay is Boston Call: New Yorkers All Foul NEWS DAY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17. taurant named Key West.

The trashing of the Valiant had been a particularly nice touch, they say. Classic student car, that Valiant. Andelman himself saya he prayed it had those red, white and blue plates with the Statue of liberty on them. Eddie Andelman is more than just a Boston guy. Every night from 6 to 8, he vents his spleen against New York, New Yorkers and their teams on radio station WHDH.

Its a lucrative part-time job for the portly racetrack owner. And its the No. 1 sports talk show in the city. But, frankly, having this chance to go head to head with New York well, Eddie would do his spiel even his only avenue were ham radio. Eddie and his friends havent always been this hostile.

Not that anyone's forgotten the Babe Ruth Continued on Page 17 By EJ. Kahn III Boston Eddie Andelman and his friends could appreciate what happened Wednesday night in Bostons Kenmore Square. It triggered their version of a New York state of mind. Shortly before midnight, the fens of the Red Sox took back that section of the city usually appropriated by the tens of thousands of college kids and their cars. To Andelman and his pals, the college kids are out-of-townera, every last one of them.

And more than likely the. sons and daughters of New Yorkers only too happy to be rid of their mohawked. Walk-manned, Reeboked offspring. No, the Andelman crowd was saying yesterday, they mn not upset whim the Fenway frantica clogged the intersection between the nightclub called Narcissus and the res- 1 I 4 i mV I.