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.

Outfielder Cleon Jones had regular plate appearances in 1967. He put up a hot hitting streak in late June, getting at least 1 hit in games from June 21 to 29. He finished the season with 101 hits.

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 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 sco ...

Longtime Mets employee Matt Winick kept score of a spring training outing in St. Petersburg, an 8-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox. New York Daily News reporter Dick Young noted that at least the final sc ...

Longtime Mets employee Matt Winick tallied a comeback 5-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of a doubleheader at home. Down 4-2 after six frames, the Mets scored a run in each of the ...

After losing the first game of the 1969 World Series to the Baltimore Orioles, the Mets evened things up in Game 2 with a 2-1 win on the road. New York Post reporter Maury Allen circled on his scoreca ...

With an 8-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on the road, the Mets won their fifth consecutive game for the longest win streak of the season. Longtime Mets employee Matt Winick recorded the 8 runs a ...

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, ...