The cover of that 60 yearbook had a baseball cap kind of appearing as a nest with many “baby birds” running out from it, with a name of a player under each one. When the Mets weren’t playing used to listen to many of their night games over WBAL – their signal came in loud and clear next to WHN 1050 here in New York. Chuck Thompson was a great broadcaster.

Of course, those were the days where prior to 1965 nobody got to see an out of town baseball game on TV so to listen to out of town games was a thrill – not like today where one can get MLB Extra Innings in high definition.

This will probably make you cry – when I was a kid I owned the 1960, 1964 and 1966 Baltimore Oriole yearbooks (I collected yearbooks from many teams).

I just wish I had half the stuff I collected during that 1969 season. Had copies of the Daily News when we went into first place and the both the Post and News from the division winning, the NLCS game 3 and all world series. Probably would have become yellowed by this time and crumpled into dust anyway – we never preserved things back then. Still have the vinyl copy of the “The Miracle Mets” and the fascimile autographed baseball and original yearbook, however.

Do have on CD the Seaver Game, The Koozman/Agee 3-2 win over the Cubs, Gentry’s clincher and game 3 of the NLCS. Did also video all four games of the world series when replayed last year on SNY

Was surprised the scorecard for the 1969 NLCS was the one used for the season and only sold for a quarter and not some more expensive program like they do for all post-season games now.

Great memories.

A hat tip and a Thanks again for what was a good read.

“No matter how good or bad your team looks on paper, you still have to play the games. I’ve definitely learned that over the year.”

Amen to that. It’s sad that is being lost upon so many today.

Have my own experience about game six. It was the time when all we had were VCR’s and the cost of pre-recorded videos astronomical so I decided to tape game six while editing out all the commercials. Did that with the pre-game show and thought I was really going to get something special for my video collection until that tenth inning. After the second out, I was feeling so frustrated that I had put so much effort pausing and un-pausing the recording to edit out commercials for nothing. Was tempted to stop it right then and there because I was tired – and so glad that I didn’t.

Yes, game six is available on video today – but how many also have all those post-game interviews PLUS the local News4 New York program after that with all the extensive coverage bringing back pure joy and disbelief we all had after that game? Have the same with game seven – from the pre-game through to the post-game interviews and then the subsequent news program. To preserve it, the tapes have been transferred onto DVD-R.

Those News4 New York programs are a treasure to have.

No matter how good or bad your team looks on paper, you still have to play the games. I’ve definitely learned that over the years.

Wonderful tribute to your parents and memories many of us share with them (loved that cover from Jock Magazine which I actually once had myself).

But as mentioned before, the front office at that time was made up of baseball people with a will to win. Today it is headed by a non-emotional corporate lawyer who looks at ledger books and treats players with all the compassion and respect of a statistic translating into cost effectiveness.

I especially love that poster they have from the 1669 Jock Magazine.

( Just kidding, keep’em coming.)

Thanks for your personal story and sharing some of the treasures from your parent’s collection. They raised you right.