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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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…
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Tom Seaver’s career through the eyes of a fifth-grader
As something of a coda to my recent post about Tom Seaver‘s brief comeback with the Mets in 1987 — a comeback that ended when he announced his retirement on June 23 of that year — here is a brief…
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Seaver’s brief 1987 comeback
For two weeks, there was hope that Tom Terrific would pitch his final season with the Mets.
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At the game | Mets | MLB | Nostalgia
Opening Day memories: Mets-Phillies, 1991
My freshman year of high school, I negotiated with my parents to miss school and go to Opening Day in New York.
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Rickey knows hot dogs
On April 25, 2000, I went to Shea Stadium with a group of friends to see Ken Griffey Jr.‘s first game there with the Reds. This was after he demanded trade out of Seattle but blocked a deal that would’ve…
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One fan’s list of top David Wright moments
I was once at a gathering of a chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research where we were asked to introduce ourselves and say what player we were fans of growing up. Becoming a Mets fan in the mid-80s,…
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Harvey Moving Day
It started out so promising. The high draft pick, the lofty prospect status, the build of a pitcher with a powerful right arm. There were comparisons to Tom Seaver, and at three inches taller and 20 pounds heavier, maybe there…
