Postseason baseball has a way of shining the spotlight on the unheralded—those who happen to be in the right place at the right time. The Division Series match-up between the Wild Card Mets against the 97-win San Francisco Giants offered up the usual headliners: New York’s duo of Mike Piazza and Edgardo Alfonzo along with San Francisco’s odd couple of Barry Bonds and former Met Jeff...
The 2000 New York Mets qualified for the postseason as the National League’s wildcard team, in the time when there was only one wildcard entrant per league. Their first round opponent was the San Francisco Giants, who had the best regular season record in all of baseball at 97-65. The best-of-five series began in San Francisco, where the two teams split the first two games. In Game Two,...
With all due respect to James McCann, he’s no Mike Piazza. On this Shoebox Memories, the chosen subject is from the 2003 Topps Stadium Club set produced by Topps in November 2002, just in time to be given as gifts under the tree. While most sets are released the following year with stats and pictured from the previous season, this set contains stats from 2002, during which Mike Piazza...
