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Dealing With a Defeat: 1969 World Series
More than 50,000 fans packed Memorial Stadium for Game 1 of the 1969 World Series, where the Mets lost to the Baltimore Orioles, 4-1. The Orioles blanked the Mets until the 7th inning when they scored ...
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Diamond Club Status: 1969 World Series
The Diamond Club, open exclusively to season ticket holders, offered fans a high-end dining experience at Shea Stadium during the 1969 World Series. Attendees of Game 3 saw a 5-0 Mets victory over the ...
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DiLauro and Taylor Speak After 1969 NLCS
Thoroughly soaked in victory champagne, Jack DiLauro and Ron Taylor gave an interview to WNBC after Game 3 of the 1969 NLCS. The Mets swept the series for their first pennant in franchise history.
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Dillon’s Mets Debut
Steve Dillon made his major league debut with the Mets late in the 1963 season, pitching 1 2/3 innings during a 9-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He came up for two more outings in 1964. The Yonker ...
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Donn Clendenon’s Battered Game-Used Bat
Donn Clendenon went heavy on the pine tar to get a good grip on his bats. You can almost smell the tar on this one! We don’t know if the pine tar was responsible for key hits during the 1969 postseaso ...
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Double Take: 1969 World Series Button
Loyal fans stuck with the Mets from their tough beginnings to the 1969 turnaround, and Mr. Met was with them along the way. The lovable mascot was popular on National League championship and World Ser ...
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Drawing Up a Winning Season
The Mets deployed creative playing strategies during the 1969 season, including Gil Hodges’s platoon system. “Organization Books” such as this one compiled single-season statistics and could be useful ...
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Dueling With Pitchers on 1967 Trip Out West
The Mets were up against strong pitching on a trip out west in June 1967, as recorded in a scorebook from the season. Houston Astro Mike Cuellar struck out 9 Mets in the June 1 game. The Mets made bet ...
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Ed Charles’s Championship Run: Cleats
Ed Charles was already a veteran player when he joined the Mets in 1967 at age 34. The veteran was still pretty light in his cleats, though, notching 279 games, 214 hits and 13 stolen bases in his thr ...
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Ed Kranepool Autographed Batting Helmet
In 1962, Ed Kranepool broke into the majors with the Mets. The 17-year-old stuck with the expansion team through the growing pains of the 1960s and was an experienced and sound player by 1969 when the ...