As a grown man, I still enjoy the autographs I collected as a youngster, but no longer seek out new autographs to add to my collection. What I enjoy are the memories of interacting with my favorite Mets ballplayer. I’m going to start with an autograph that I did not obtain in person, but is my favorite collecting story to share and is therefore my my favored autograph: Gary Carter was one...
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Executives at the Topps Baseball Card Company must have really liked watching the Mets slide home in 1986. Their 1987 set featured two Mets sliding home. One was Wally Backman, and MMO featured that particular card in this series here. Today, thank to a comment left in a recent article by MetsHof, we’re going to take a look at the second card in that genre, card number 653, which was...
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1987 Topps Gary Carter 1986 was a banner season for Mets fans, and photographers at Topps did a wonderful job of capturing many of the plays at Shea with several in-action photographs on the cards they turned out the following year. The Play on the Card So let’s get our Sherlock Holmes hat on and utilize the Internet, particularly baseballreference.com to see if we can determine a) who the...
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When the Mets won the 1969 World Series, future Mets manager Davey Johnson was the Orioles second baseman, and 23-year-old Ken Boswell was the Mets’ starting second baseman. When the Mets won the pennant four years later, Ken Boswell was still their second baseman. Playing for the Mets between 1967 and 1974, Boswell hit .250/.313/.337. Mostly known for his defense, Boswell turned 269...
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The card above, card number 544 from the 1978 Topps set, is an interesting card of an interesting character during a very non-interesting time period in the history of the New York Mets. As we often do here in the Shoebox Memories section of MMO, when we see an in-action card, we like to get our Sherlock Holmes hat off the wall and try to deduct some elementary questions such as was who are all...
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