Davis, Satin return to their roots in Brooklyn

BROOKLYN — Coney Island is familiar territory for Ike Davis and Josh Satin, as is all that makes up the kaleidoscopic nature of baseball there. The color-coated hot dogs racing down the left-field line, the red-yellow roller coasters rumbling beyond the outfield wall, the ocean breeze streaming from the stands in right, that, if turned stiff, can bat down home run balls like bricks.

Coney Island is baseball home for them, in some ways, the place where Davis and Satin began professional careers that would culminate in careers with the New York Mets.

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“I can still barely hit it out,” said Davis, standing on the field at MCU Stadium, home of the Mets’ Class A affiliate Brooklyn Cyclones, and eying the right-field wall. “Can you feel that wind?”

The old memories came rushing back Thursday, with Davis and Satin in Coney Island to play for Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic qualifiers. For Davis, 29, that meant saying hello to MCU Park security guards he first met almost a decade earlier. For Satin, it meant swinging again on the field where he spent a promising first year in professional baseball. “Not much has changed,” said Satin. “This was a big selling point for me to play for this team, to be able to play at …

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