Articles which dive into the rich past of the Mets
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 a Met cap, jacket and road grey graces the cover. Perhaps knowing how the rest of the Mets’ debut year…
The starter is getting tired. The call goes out to the bullpen. Within ten minutes, the crowd sees the reliever making his way to the mound on foot. But in the old days, relievers rode to the mound in the Bullpen Cart. Who remembers that? The cart’s top was a big Mets Cap. The sides were baseball bats, the rear were the seams of a baseball and the headlights were strategically placed within two fielder’s…
The Mets are 5-2 after taking long-time nemesis Roy Halladay behind the woodshed last night. The starting pitchers have a 1.87 ERA with six Quality Starts in seven outings, with the lone non-QS coming with Aaron Laffey on the mound and Anthony Recker behind the plate. The offense has delivered a home run in each game and the Mets have a +20 run differential. Even the bullpen hasn’t been bad and Terry Collins used a…
Early in the 2003 baseball season, the starting shortstop for the last place Mets, Rey Sanchez, disappeared during a 13-4 drubbing against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium and emerged with a nice stylish haircut. The Mets organization was publicly scrutinized. The public’s frustrations with the performance of the club culminated in demands for the team to make a statement, make an example of Sanchez, and get rid of him. Mike Stanton allegedly leaked…
Hubie Brooks was a great Met. Traded just before he emerged as an All-Star caliber shortstop, he nonetheless made his mark in the hearts of many a Met fan. Brooks was the third player drafted in the 1978 amateur draft and was a September call-up in September 1980 (along with Mookie Wilson and Wally Backman). That year, he hit .309 in 89 PAs with 1 HR and 10 RBIs. He played his first full season…
Taken from a recent post on a well regarded Mets message board, here is an interesting take on an All-Time Mets Team. The All-Time Only Played For The Mets Team. To make this team, there is going to be a couple of ground rules: A player must have played parts of five years as a Met, and the second is that even though Mike Pelfrey has yet to pitch a regular season game as a…
Ever since the inception of movie making and the introduction of Hollywood into mainstream society, people have tried to figure out a solid plot to make into a movie. It is a very common occurrence when sports and movies collide. Since the beginning of film making, sports has been a mainstay in their genre. With that as a backdrop, Mets fans are often curious as to which one of their two World Series champions would…
The following article is the final part of a three-part series analyzing the Mets announcers, and is a joint effort by Charlie Hangley, Jim O’Malley and myself. The sections on Tim McCarver and Ralph Kiner were written by Jim, Charlie contributed the parts about Lindsey Nelson, Steve Albert, Steve LaMarr and Lorn Brown. I wrote the sections on Bob Murphy and Fran Healey. I also compiled all of the contributions and edited them together. For…
Duffy Dyer was a true Met. He ably served as Jerry Grote’s back-up and caught many of the Mets greatest pitchers. He played for the team from 1969-1974. He appeared in 375 games and accrued 1167 Pas. He had one AB in the 1968 season but earned more playing time in 1969. He had one at bat in the 1969 World Series. He hit an Opening Day three-run pinch-hit HR at Shea Stadium in 1969.…
I purchased a copy of the 1989 Mets yearbook last week. While reading it, I began to wonder what happened to this team. The 1989 Mets were stacked. They were a team which had achieved World Series glory three years earlier and were returning from a dramatic and heart-breaking loss to the Dodgers the previous year. They were a power-house. But they lost. They didn’t even win the division. What happened? There were names in…
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