The Mets hoped to make the rest of the league welcome — but not too welcome — at the newly opened Shea Stadium in 1964. The team went 53-109 that season, their best season to date and a 13-game improv ...

MLB went down as the Year of the Pitcher in 1968, and the Mets had a bullpen set to follow the trend for the ’69 season. Tom Seaver was a 25-game and Cy Young Award winner. Seaver and Jerry Koosman we ...

Out at home! An image of Mets backstop Jerry Grote tagging LA Dodger Manny Mota was plastered on the 1971 yearbook. Grote recorded 892 putouts that season, the best of his career.