On a miserable, wet night at the park, the Mets fell to the Nationals this evening 1-7 in what was possibly the most meh game to ever meh. The game time was a long three hours and 42 minutes. Bartolo Colon was not sharp in this one, to say the least, and labored through most [...]
1970 TRANSOGRAM CLEON JONES I picked up three 1970 New York Mets Transogram cards last week. Along with the pictured Cleon Jones card, the lot also included a Jerry Koosman and a Tom Seaver from the same issue. These Transogram cards were printed on the back of the cardboard boxes the corresponding Transogram figures came [...]
Obviously, 200 is a nice round number. People like round numbers especially those ending in one or more zeroes. Until Roger Maris came along it was comforting and easy to remember that the record for home runs in a season belonged to Babe Ruth with his 60 in 1927. 200 is the Mets’ franchise record [...]