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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ed Kranepool’s MLB career began in 1962, the same year the Mets first took the field. The Mets called up the 17-year-old to help a struggling team, and Kranepool stayed with the franchise through good ...

Ed Kranepool had a sense of humor about his 1969 World Series accomplishment. He cheekily autographed his Chrysler-sponsored World Series platter with his own name and tagged it “My Plate.” This wasn’ ...

Ed Kranepool goes behind the scenes of the Mets victories in Games 2 and 3 of the 1969 World Series.

Ed Kranepool shares how it felt to hit a home run in Game 3 of the 1969 World Series.