Forty years ago, ‘Baseball Thursday’ gave a city a whiff of its Subway Series dream

The day began in earnest at 10:39 a.m., when a man on the press level at old Shea Stadium flicked a button and in an instant the enormous scoreboard in right-center field crackled to life. The remnants of the previous night’s out-of-town scoreboard were still listed, notably the one atop the left side, where the…