Stats and stories from the 1969 World Series were brought to fans nationwide via airwaves and newspaper stands. Games 1 and 2 took place at Memorial Stadium, home of the AL pennant-winning Baltimore O ...

The Mets chased the Chicago Cubs for first place of the NL East Division throughout most of the 1969 season. New York passed the Cubs with a September win streak to take the title.

The 1969 Mets improved on offense in pursuit of the NL East Division title. Along with 100 wins, the Mets recorded more runs, RBIs and triples that season than any other in franchise history up to tha ...

By catching a Davey Johnson pop fly to left field, Cleon Jones officially recorded the final out of the 1969 World Series. The Mets won the Series over the Baltimore Orioles, 4-1, for the first champi ...

Based on their first eight seasons of play, it seemed like the Mets would never reach the top of the league. They were 60 ½ games out of first place in 1962, and still finishing second-to-last in 1968 ...

The York Suburban Senior High School marching band put on a Memorial Stadium performance during Game 2 of the 1969 World Series. Though the O’s rooters packed the ballpark in support of the home team, ...

Longtime Mets employee Matt Winick began working for the team in 1963 as a statistician. He kept scorebooks such as this one with game logs and player stats. Winick eventually became Mets Assistant Di ...

Iconic New York sportswriter Maury Allen kept tabs on the Mets in a scorebook during the miracle 1969 season. Allen was a New York Post reporter from 1961 to 1988, covering the Yankees, Mets and other ...

The Mets made history throughout the entire 1969 season, including the very first game of the year on April 8. Shea Stadium was host to the first international MLB game as the expansion Montréal Expos ...

Fans who tooled around with this license plate on their front bumper could be confident everyone on the road knew where they — and their favorite team — stood.