After the partying was done on a baseball field in Queens and the clubhouse beneath the Citi Field bleachers, the real celebrating began in a conference room on the second floor of the Omni Berkshire Place in Manhattan. That’s where many of the Royals’ wives and girlfriends joined in. Bottles of champagne and domestic beer and cigars were shared in abundance.
They laughed. They cried. They hugged. Alex Gordon even ate french fries, so you know it got wild.
“First time since he was 12,” pitcher Luke Hochevar says.
But the moment many of them most remember from the franchise’s first World Series celebration in 30 years happened around 3 in the morning in that conference room — on a long, and thankfully very sturdy, table.