They lived it. And now they’ll tell you about it. The boys of ’69 have plenty of stories about a miraculous season, and we’re betting you haven’t heard them all. Pull up a seat and let Ed Kranepool, Art Shamsky, Cleon Jones, Duffy Dyer and Ron Swoboda tell you a bit about being “Miracle Mets.”

Original Met Ed Kranepool, second baseman Al Weis and Cy Young winner Tom Seaver joined forces in a 1969 World Series toy collector set. Kranepool appeared only in Game 3, but he made his presence known with an eighth-inning home run. Weis added a dinger of his own in the Series, sending one over the […]

After 18 seasons in New York (including a cup of coffee in the expansion club’s first year), Ed Kranepool hung up his cleats after the 1979 season. His 1,853 games in a Mets uniform still stands as the most in franchise history.

The Mets hosted and swept the LA Dodgers in a three-game series in early June. Ed Kranepool sent 2 home runs over the fences in the June 3 game to help the Mets win, 5-2. The June 4 game stretched scoreless into 15 innings, requiring two scorebook pages to document the outing. Tommie Agee scored […]

The Mets had plenty of standouts during the 1969 season. Each player was a piece to the larger puzzle of capturing the first World Series championship in franchise history.

By 1967, Ed Kranepool was a team veteran with five seasons of experience as a Met. A scorebook showed his offensive production that summer. From June 9 to July 21, Kranepool batted .281 with 34 hits, 18 RBIs and 13 runs.