Two familiar names, a combined age north of ninety, and a moment that felt ripped from another era.
Old Timer’s Day arrived early on June 15, 2007, when the Mets shut out the Yankees 2–0 behind a matchup that belonged in baseball’s history books. Forty-eight-year-old Julio Franco flied out against forty-four-year-old Roger Clemens, creating the oldest pitcher-vs-batter showdown since 1933, with a combined age of 93 years and 246 days. It was a modern game that briefly felt like a living museum.
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