Mets Memorabilia Review: 2013 All-Star Game Program

This time on the Mets Memorabilia review, let's take a look at the 2013 All-Star Game program from the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field.   Now this magazine is a far cry from the 1964 one from Shea Stadium, in which the program was probably roughly 60 pages, and sported an illustrated cover of [...]

Other All-Star performances from the month

David Wright and Matt Harvey weren't the only Met organization employees to perform in All-Star Games this month.  There was also the Major League Baseball Futures Game at Citi Field this past Sunday and the Triple-A All-Star Game held Wednesday night.  As well as the Double-A Eastern League's All-Star Game held back on July 10th. [...]

Parallel Earth: Mets make play for Willie McCovey

Recently an eBay auction for a “unique” collectable caught my attention.  The opening price was only about 4 bucks for an 8x10 mockup of Willie McCovey’s 1968 Topps baseball card.  Only instead of the Giant road greys, Stretch was seen in vintage Met road greys (which is slightly odd considering the photo on the card [...]

David Wright and 3,000 hits

Earlier in the month, David Wright recorded his 1,500th career hit.  The hit naturally extended his All-Time Met hit record and puts him halfway to the vaunted 3,000 hit plateau. One can argue that the club, currently standing at 28 and including some of the game's biggest and most iconic names, is still one of [...]

Mets Sports Illustrated covers throughout the years

In honor of Matt Harvey being the regional cover boy of Sports Illustrated last week, it might be a fun trip into the TARDIS/Delorean/hot tub/time travel device of your choice…or even SI’s online archives, and chronicle Met covers through the years. We start off with March 5th, 1962 and a rather dour Casey Stengel in [...]

Mets memorabilia review 2013 yearbook

According to the New York Mets Memorabilia Club's Checklist, 2013's edition is the 103rd different Met Yearbook (counting the Spanish editions of 1988-1990, and 1992 as well as all the various editions of the Yearbooks through the years, even “Final Shea Stadium Homestand” and SGA reprints of the 1969 (two actually), 1973 and 1986). In [...]