In a recent Shoebox Memories article on Art Shamsky, commentor Jason Black asked us to review the card above – #49 from the 1983 Topps set – and to identify the Mets first basemen. Most of the other commentors, particularly MetsHof, felt that the Mets first baseman that day was either Lee Mazzilli or Dave Kingman. Let’s take our Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat off of the peg...
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The vast majority (okay all) of the cards featured in these series of posts are from my personal collection. A card collector as kid, the obsession grew with the advent of online auctions. While perusing Mets cards online, I was able to find the following card to bid on and add to my obsession collection: What we see on the card is obviously a brush-back pitch to the batter Art Shamsky —...
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It was one month before the country celebrated its Bicentennial, June 4, 1976 when Dave “King Kong” Kingman had his finest day of his career for the Mets. Playing right field and batting cleanup for the Mets at Dodger Stadium in a scoreless game, after John “The Hammer” Milner singled to center leading off the fourth, Kingman hit his first home run of the day off Dodger...
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There are times when it’s tough to be a Mets fan. Perhaps you remember when the Mets held a commanding seven-game lead with 17 games to play in 2007, and then collapsed to their rival from down the Turnpike. Or perhaps you recall 2008, when the Amazin’s held a 3.5 game lead in September with only 17 games to play, before becoming the first team ever to blow a 3.5-game lead in...
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On May 21, 1981 the Mets had an off day. A player’s strike was looming, and the Mets were on their way to a 41 – 62 record in the last season of Manager Joe Torre’s regime in Queens. But future Mets were active that day in what is now widely known as the greatest college game ever played. To set the scene, the game was played at Yale Field in Connecticut. Built in 1927, before...
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