THUNDER ON THE RIVER BY MARK ECKEL
The Double-A Trenton Thunder baseball club begins their 27th season on the banks of the Delaware River
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Joe Caruso, just as everyone else associated with the beginnings of the Trenton Thunder, remembers April 27, 1994.
And not so fondly. That was the night the Thunder was supposed to play its first-ever home game at beautiful brand-new Waterfront Park, a $17 million facility in New Jersey’s capital city with a great view of the Delaware River. In the visitor’s dugout that night was the Albany Yankees and a 21-year-old shortstop named Derek Jeter. The game wasn’t played. Trenton’s field wasn’t ready, wasn’t safe, and Yankees manager Bill Evers refused to allow his team to play on it. The back page headline on one of the two daily newspapers that covered the team blared “Field of Seams’’. Fond memories indeed.
