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Christine Quinn Picked Love Over the Mets, Will Probably Lose Queens

New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a political forum aboard a boat in Manhattan on April 9, 2013 in New York City. Six mayoral candidates spoke at the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance's 2013 Waterfront Conference ahead of the November 2013 mayoral election.
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When her future wife made clear during one of their early dates that she could be with only a Yankees fan, Christine C. Quinn did not hesitate: ‘I dumped the Mets in a hot second.’” —An early New York Times look at the mayoral favorite’s “affecting but carefully assembled 240-page memoir,” due out in June, reveals that baseball is less important to her than eternal happiness. Good luck explaining that to the city’s second most populous borough.

Christine Quinn Picked Love Over the Mets