Tag: Lee Mazzilli

An Old Timers’ Day Primer

For the first time since 1994, the Mets are hosting an Old Timers’ Day. What once had been a staple of the organization ever since the team originated has now been revived under the Steve Cohen regime, helped by crowdsourcing on Twitter shortly after taking ownership. The early years of the festivities celebrated New York’s brilliant baseball past, especially in 1977 when they...

MMO’s Great Eight Mets Teams: Team 8

People have been asking us all winter what we’ve been doing to pass the time during the MLB lockout. I’ll tell you what we do here at MMO — we come up with ideas that not only help us stay busy, but will help you all stay busy, too. Talking about the best teams and/or players in New York Mets history is always a good debate to have — especially during the cold winter months — but what if we...

OTD 1986: “The Dream Has Come True”

On October 27, 1986, the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox to win their second world championship. They were coming off a dramatic win in Game Six, as recapped here by MMO’s Brian Wright. Most Mets fans are well aware of how things went down on those two October nights in Queens. I am among the lucky, in that I was able to attend both of those games. I’d like to share the emotional...

OTD in 1984: Mets Acquire Howard Johnson

On December 7, 1984, the Mets traded pitcher Walt Terrell to the Tigers for Howard Johnson. Terrell had become a Met just before the 1982 season began, coming to New York from the Texas Rangers along with Ron Darling in a deal for Lee Mazzilli. Though Mazzilli was a fan favorite in his two stints with the Mets, and was instrumental off the bench in the 1986 post season, the Mets got the better...

Shoebox Memories: 1983 Topps Willie McGee

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...

Amazin’ Memories: Darling, Viola Pitch The Greatest College Game Of All-Time

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...

Top Five Center Field Campaigns In Mets History

The success of the New York Mets as a franchise has been largely due to excellent pitching and solid defense. Unfortunately the offense has not seen the same success in large parts of  Mets history. That’s not to say, however, there hasn’t been some great offensive performances for New York, some even memorable. In fact there’s a long list of clutch hits from well known...

Pete Alonso Has A Rookie Season For The Ages

One year ago today, I sat wondering to myself if there would ever be a Mets player to impact me like David Wright did. It was Wright’s last game, and as I sat there with my mom in right field, we shared smiles, laughs, welled up eyes and many tears in what was an emotional rollercoaster of a day. The scoreboard showed Wright many times. As he took batting practice, talked to teammates in...

Morning Briefing: Wheeler Takes the Mound in Final Spring Game

Good Morning Mets Fans ! The Metropolitans wrapped up their last weekend of spring training with an 8-4 win over the rival, Washington Nationals. Tim Peterson took the ball for the team and worked two scoreless innings as he continues to make a push for the final spot in the team’s bullpen to start the 2019 regular season. Jeff McNeil plated four RBI on the day while Robinson Cano and...

Amazin’ Moments: The Magic Is Back, If Only For One Night

“Home runs are over-rated. You don’t have to hit home runs to win. If I don’t get a home run all year, and the team wins, I’ll be more than satisfied.” – Steve Henderson The Reccoppa family piled into Dad’s burnt orange 1970 Plymouth Duster for the short ride across the bridge on Route 37 to Seaside Heights. A visit to grandma’s summer house, a sure sign school would be out soon. Anthony, 10,...

Around the Diamond: Center Field

In the Mets’ 52 seasons, there have been 26 different Center Fielders who could be classified as the “primary” player in any given season. As we continue this series, who were the ten Mets who have played the most games at each position, we now look at center field. (seasons as the primary in parenthesis) 10. Don Hahn (1973-74) – 268 games in Center (188 starts). In 1974,...

The Top 10 Worst Scoring Mets Teams Since 1980

To follow up the 10 best offensive clubs since the 80s, it’s only fitting to list the 10 lease offensive (or depending on the context – the most offensive) teams since 1980.  While we are not too far removed from the Times-O-Plenty, we’ve recently been mired in Several Seasons of Drought. The 10 Worst Scoring Mets Teams since 1980 1.      1981 – 547 runs – 3.38 runs per game 2.      1983 – 575...

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