Mets’ Opening Day opponents, sites through the years
Some various facts about the Mets’ Opening Day opponents through the years… As far as individual players …
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By the numbers: Mets home openers
We all know the success the Mets have had on Opening Day since losing eight of their first nine. But having attended every full-capacity
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Myrl Brown: Baseball’s first M.L.B.
This post was originally written in November 2016 and updated in April 2023. You never know what will bring you to uncover the name of a long-forgotten ballplayer. A feat here, a tidbit there, and all of a sudden, you’re…
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When Jackie Robinson visited Notre Dame
Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson spoke at Notre Dame on Feb. 10, 1954.
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Where Sockalexis knocked one out of the fort
On a warm June day, my wife and I pulled into the parking lot of Fort George Park in Castine, Maine. Set upon the highest point of the Bagaduce Peninsula, between the river of the same name and Penobscot Bay,…
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Babe Ruth’s 500(?)-foot home run in Newark
Eighty-six years ago, Babe Ruth came through Newark just before his final season — two months, actually — as a player. The Braves were barnstorming north in advance of their April 16 season opener against the Giants in Boston and…
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History | Media | MLB | Out of Left Field
Hank Aaron’s football fandom
I recently was flipping through a stack of programs, yearbooks and magazines my father-in-law gave me, all mostly centered around Pittsburgh sports, reflecting his fandom. While leafing through an issue of Pro! (“The Official Magazine of the National Football League”)…
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With clubs in NJ, the Yankees and Giants kept their top affiliates close
When the new arrangements between Major League clubs and their affiliates become official, the Twins will have the closest Triple-A affiliate, perhaps in history, based on the shortest overland distance between their Target Field in Minneapolis and the Saints’ CHS…
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Hall of Fame | History | Mets | MLB | Nostalgia
Thoughts on the passing of Tom Seaver
News of Tom Seaver‘s death came out on my 44th birthday. That makes me too young to have seen him in his original Mets tenure, or to have had a reaction to his 1977 trade to the Reds. I went…
