Baseball is really something, y’know? A six-month, 162-game haul that can take us on an emotional rollercoaster that makes the Coney Island Cyclone look like a kiddy ride. And if your team is having a bad season, it can be a horrible slog. The trick is to find joy in the game itself. Over the [...]
A recent "Antiques Roadshow" had a Mets spin on it. If you're not familiar with the show, a viewer brings in a collectible, like the souvenir spoon collection they inherited from their Aunt Lillian and experts tell them what it's worth. It could be $20, or if they are lucky the collection includes the rare [...]
Happy New Year! You know, life exists in full, vibrant color. NBC didn’t introduce its famous peacock logo in the mid-‘60s for nothing: it brought you quality television “in living color!” Looking at grainy, monochrome images, sometimes you forget that aspect of life. That’s why the HBO “When It Was a Game” specials from awhile [...]
The year 2016 has been celebrated all year as the 30th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion Mets. But 2016 is the 50th anniversary of another Met team, the 1966 Mets. While not nearly as successful as the '86 club, that '66 team did notch a few milestones. The Mets had played four seasons before [...]
As we get to the holidays, it may be fun to look back at the Mets All Time Leaders for different hitting and pitching categories. The Mets have a rich 54 year history with many players from different generations. Some of the leaders are obvious, but there are a sprinkling of names of players who [...]
Thursday, October 27 is the 30th anniversary of the Mets' World Series victory over the Boston Red Sox. The Mets had a terrific team that year. Were they perhaps the best National League team ever? Lets take a look. I am limiting this ranking to National League teams because there are subtle differences between the [...]
Jon Matlack was drafted with the fourth pick in the first round by the Mets of the 1967 draft, out of Westchester Pennsylvania. Matlack’s minor league career was mediocre. In 1970 at Tidewater, he was 12-11 with a 4.13 ERA. In 1971, he was 11-1 with a 3.97 ERA. Matlack made his major league debut [...]
The Mets are on their best hot streak of the year, having won 15 of their last 19 games. Back in 2011, after the conclusion of that season, I wrote an article about the top 10 hot streaks in team history. That article is getting some views now, so it seems like a good time [...]
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Bing Devine may have preferred Harry Walker but ultimately he brought in Gil Hodges
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The Mets will play their 8,617th regular season National League game when they open the 2016 season in April. This old timer of a fan has seen the majority of those games on TV. While it has not always been the case that I have a favorite player or players each year there have always [...]
