The words on the giant Shea Stadium scoreboard captured the seminal moment: “Look Who’s No. 1.” The Mets swept a doubleheader from the Montreal Expos and got a solid from the Philadelphia Phillies as they beat the Chicago Cubs. On the board in right-center field, a snapshot of the up-to-date standings with the accompanying headline. Just a night earlier, the Cubs had left New York...
On April 22, 1970, Tom Seaver took the mound for the World Champion New York Mets on a Wednesday afternoon at Shea Stadium. The San Diego Padres provided the opposition. A sparse crowd of just over 14,000 showed up for the midweek matinee, and they were treated to a pitching performance for the ages. Seaver was the National League’s reigning Cy Young Award winner, having taken home...
On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 the Mets had a thrilling come-from-behind win against the Miami Marlins in the resumption of a suspended game. The Mets were down 5-1 in the ninth, and rallied to win, thanks to some clutch hitting by Michael Conforto and daring base running by Javier Baez. Since that game, the Mets have won another game, been rained out, picked up ground in both the wildcard and...
Recently while thumbing through some old baseball cards, I came across the 1978 Felix Millan shown below, card number 505 from the Topps set that year. Felix Millan was one of my favorite Mets growing up. Partly because he was a gritty ballplayer who played the keystone well, and partly because I also had the following card from the 1976 set, which showed the Mets second baseman with one of the...
