The latest installment of our continuing series showcasing notable Mets broadcasts features a pivotal point in the run to the National League pennant twenty years ago. After dropping the opener in the best-of-five versus the San Francisco Giants, the team with the NL’s best regular-season record in 2000, New York could ill afford to dig itself an 0-2 hole. It was incumbent on starter Al...
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Looking to fill the Mets void in your life? After perusing through the YouTube library, we’ve discovered a vast selection from the Amazin’s archive that we’ll present over the coming weeks that will hopefully help pass the time, including full-game broadcasts you won’t find among SNY’s “Mets Classics” and team highlight videos. We’ll begin with Opening Day 1983, which...
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Below is an excerpt from “The New York Mets All-Time All-Stars” from Lyons Press, available in online booksellers and local bookstores on February 24, featuring the ever-popular first baseman/broadcaster/Hadji caretaker. He knew what everyone else did in 1983: Shea Stadium was a major-league abyss. When Hernandez got word he’d be leaving the reigning champion St. Louis Cardinals for...
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After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the ’69 Mets, is a unique retrospective about the greatest Cinderella story in baseball history. One of those miracle men, outfielder Art Shamsky, wrote the book with author Erik Sherman. It eschewed from the purely play-by-play, game-by-game overview of the magical series of events that occurred a half-century ago — in which the Mets went from...
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After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the ’69 Mets, is a unique retrospective about the greatest Cinderella story in baseball history. One of those miracle men, outfielder Art Shamsky, wrote the book with author Erik Sherman. It eschewed from the purely play-by-play, game-by-game overview of the magical series of events that occurred a half-century ago — in which the Mets went from...
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