The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA) runs many wonderful programs, but certainly one of the best is the Legends for Youth Clinic Series. Legends for Youth is a charitable program running more than 185 free events a year nationwide, and more than 400 worldwide. The mission of Legends for Youth is to promote the game of baseball to kids using positive sports images and...
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Baseball’s June Amateur Draft does not get the following or press that the draft in the NFL does. Few fans can name who their’ team’s first or second round draft picks should be, and names selected in past drafts are often forgotten. A look at historical Mets drafts show that it is not so much the failure to draft the correct players, but the failure to sign players drafted...
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1990 had seen the Mets fire Davey Johnson for failing to win a second World Series, and move on to manager Bud Harrelson. The team was vastly improved under Harrelson and had finished the 1990 season 91-71, in second place behind the Pirates. Frank Viola had been acquired and won 20 games with an ERA of 2.67, becoming co-ace with Dwight Gooden who won 19 games and had a 3.83 ERA. Besides Viola...
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Not often we show non-Mets cards here at MMO, but in a recent article, commenter JJ Johnson requested this particular card be considered for an article. There are many interesting features in this card: The card is from 1973 but Agee had yet to play with the Astros when this card was being made in the Spring of 1973. Agee was traded in the off-season to the Astros for Rich Chiles and Buddy...
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Executives of Topps must have enjoyed games during the 1986 season, as they provided fans numerous cards with pictures taken during the Mets’ World Series season of 1986 in the 1987 Topps set. We’ve previously looked at cards from the 1987 Topps set for Kevin Mitchell, Wally Backman, and Gary Carter and were able to determine the game and outcome of the play pictured. Today,...
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