The soundtrack of my youth, 13 years old, watching this on TV then going to the third game of the playoffs where the Mets swept out the Braves and then going to games 3, 4 and 5 of the World Series and watching the Mets finish off the Orioles! I didn’t go to school much those two weeks!
And finally a well deserved and long overdue honor of being elected into the Baseball HOF! He did a lot indeed, Rudolph, especially in my home borough of Brooklyn where I grew up and where Hodges lived for many years!
51 years ago tonight! I will never forget it! RIP Gil Hodges, Charles and Joan Payson, Herb Walker, Johnny Murphy, Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, Rube Walker, Eddie Yost, Yogi Berra, Tom Seaver, Ed Charles, Tommie Agee, Donn Clendenon, Don Cardwell, Tug McGraw, Cal Koonce, Jim Bibby, Dan Frisella, Gus Mauch and Joe Deer! Gone but never forgotten! Thank you for a wonderful season and memories!
I didn't think I'd ever see a footage of this game... one in which I watched back in 1969 on tv as a kid (I was turning 12 on November 20th)… when "The Amazins" clinched the NL Eastern division with a 6-0 victory over the Cardinals. Gary Gentry pitched an awesome game that wonderful evening!! Thank you much for posting this!!! 👌
It's been 49 years since this took place and it STILL brings tears to my eyes everytime watch this. I was 11 years old and my parent allowed me to stay up to watch this game .
Brownstone Guy we are the same age. Luckily for us, Game started and hour earlier than usual , at 7:05, and played in 2 hours. It was an unforgettable night.
I turned 11 a month later and I am crying with happiness watching this now but sad for those who are no longer around! Still I thank God for being from and being raised in New York City and seeing the Jets, Mets and Knicks winning for the first time during that even with New York City and the country having problems then! Wish the current NYC teams can build a championship culture like back then and unfortunately it’s been difficult! Steve Cohen, you grew up as a Mets fan! Please build a team that can remind us of beautiful memories like 1969-a year and era that we will NEVER forget as long as we live!
I honestly do not think there was ever a more joyous group or celebration! It is somewhat haunting to see all of these guys in their prime. What a moment in time!
At 4:09 is my hero, Gil Hodges. He deserves to be in the HOF and one day he will be. I stayed up past my 3rd grade bedtime to watch this miracle and stayed home 'sick' to watch the W.S.
Thank You Gregg for your contribution to great NY Baseball History. We were very Lucky to Grow up in the last 50 Years. I am very happy to have been able to share these memories with you as a Friend. We experienced it all from memories like this to the great 1979 Super Mets . I only wonder if with Asshole Jeff Wilpon, will we ever have a chance to see another Championship!!!!!
On September 24, 1969, 2 days before "The Brady Bunch" premiered on ABC, the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 to clinch their 1st ever National League East title in franchise history.
Seaver just KILLS me... It's all so sweet and wonderful... and I remember From the Mets with Love too, from the 80's... check SNY now- many Winik brothers films are finally being used after years of being forgotten, thanks to fans shaming Wilpon into understanding METS history and not bogus Dodgerdom.
Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones we’re boyhood pals back in Mobile, Alabama…the same town that gave us two great Hall of Famers…BILLY WILLIAMS and one HENRY AARON
Wow! I can't believe you had this. This is never seen. I remember it well and it's amazing to watch. the interviews are great. You appreciate the great Met Announcers of Bob Murphy, Lindsay Nelson and Ralph Kiner. This celebration started it all for that great team and thanks for posting this.
Think about it, the great Lindsey Nelson puts the time of the win at 9:07. I believe the game started at 7:05 which means it was a two hour ballgame. Now a nine inning game takes forever. I love baseball, but it has become unwatchable!
Baseball has always been a radio sport. When television began to expand baseball’s reach I think that’s when the showboating really started to take over.
There's never been team like the 1969. One paper, they weren't the greatest team ever, but from mid August till they went on to win the series, no team ever played better.
Thanks so much for this great memory. I was 9 in 1969 went to met games since 65. My dad got his hands on two tickets for game 4 droped my brother and I off at shea, he then went to lums chinese resturant in flushing to watch from the bar tv. Thanks dad for letting us go (since he had two boys and only two tickets) Thanks greg for the great memories "lets go mets".
NOT SO FUN FACT…this was turn out to be STEVE CARLTON’s shortest outing throughout his illustrious 23 season HALL OF FAME career…hadn;t quite perfected that devil slider just yet..
wow!!! Thank you so much...so great to hear Gil Hodges voice!..these guys were pretty special...a total team effort....time for WOR to break out the archives!
I was there that night, just 3 weeks before my 13th birthday. It's hard to describe what it felt like. When you're that young, it seems like the biggest and best thing that ever happened in the history of the world. I remember a woman in the upper deck fainting when Donn Clendenon hit the second homer.Thanks so much for posting it
You do realize, genius, that the Mets' pitching staff that year (Seaver, Koosman, Ryan, Gentry, Cardwell, etc.) went on to win almost 1,000 games. If they had played that Orioles team 100 times they would have won 80. And they would taken 99 of 100 from that Pirates team.
Brickyard Hill Studios I don't know it. I'll try to research it and see what I find. I found another classic of hers called "Let's Go Mets" which she played before the Mets would take the field. It's on UA-cam and you'll recognize it.
That one I know - the song when the Mets take the field. It's my favorite. I have a clean copy that was posted on WOR's website last year. Good luck searching the '69 home run song. By 1972, Jane played Meet the Mets after home runs.
Brickyard Hill Studios thanks I'm going to give it a good try. Wonder if it was her composition or part of another song. I thank the latter so we'll see what I can find.
My God, how did you get your hands on this tape ? It's probably the only surviving footage of the '69 regular season. Do you have the whole game? Wish it could be broadcast on SNY. Thanks so much, Brickyard !! :-)
Thanks! This is all that exists as far as I know, and it came from a Channel 9 WOR special called From Mets With Love, aired prior to the inaugural League Championship Series. I've read that the master tape was given to Lindsey Nelson's family. But I don't know if that's true. Yes, it would be nice if this could be found and aired or made available. What I love is the simplicity of the production: 4 Cameras, High home, 1st and 3rd and the best angle ever - ground level behind home plate. No camera man running on field after homer.
Hey Brickyard (this is actually Helenpol's husband, John, a Mets fan fan since '71 :-) )...Thanks so much for the reply !! It mystifies me that we don't see any tapes of the September runs in '69 & '73 on SNY. I put that question out there once on their web site...and a guy said he believes that WOR might have re-used their sports video tapes over & over again in those days, meaning that the master tapes have been lost forever. God, I hope that's not true (Wow, this is the first time I'm hearing of a possible connection to Lindsey Nelson's family !!). You took me back with the reference to the special "From the Mets, With Love". I recall seeing it on Channel 9 sometime in the late 80s...and, yes, footage of the NL East clincher was included.
If you check the 1969 Cubs stories on UA-cam, you will find highlights of the come from Behind win On July 8, and Seaver’s near perfecto the next night! WOR and WGN had Channel 9 and both stations shared the same cameras! Of course WGN in Chicago! I smiled when the Cubs legendary announcer Jack Brickhouse said in disgust “CAUGHT and DROPPED by Young!” 😅
Me and my best friend we were both fourteen were there on that day, both of us went on the field where we collected some of the turf and some dirt. I kept my patch of grass alive until the next spring and the dirt I had for years, don't know what happened to it. What great memories!
As soon as Clendenon hit that three run homer off Steve Carlton in the first inning, I KNEW it was all over! I didn’t care if there were 8 innings to go! The 1969 Mets were destined to win it! Even with the early run support, Rookie Gary Gentry was up to the task and he did an outstanding job! As a 10 year old Brooklyn boy, I enjoyed the thrill of watching this game on WOR-TV, Channel 9 from the start when Bob Murphy told the audience that if the Mets win it, it’s all over! He did state that young Mr. Gentry had quite a task in front of him against a young but an already established Steve Carlton and he sure out pitched Carlton big time! Carlton gave up a total of 4 homers in his last two starts against the Mets! Then the pandemonium on the field at Shea Stadium and the clubhouse celebration was wild and incredible! I won’t ever forget it! What was important was NONE of the Mets players got hurt when they had to run for their lives and made it home even when they drank and sprayed all that champagne!
I’m paraphrasing here but Lindsay says “at 9:07 Mets won the championship”. Games didn’t start until 8pm Back then. This couldn’t have been a 1 hour game. What am I missing?
It was the final home game and an early 7:05 start for fan appreciation night. Games were played at a much brisker pace then. 2 hours now under 3 hours is considered quick.
Not too serendipitous, but that's none other than Joe Torre grounding into the double play at 1:25. He, of course, would later manage the Mets. Davey Johnson, who made the last out of the '69 World Series would go on to manage the Mets. Both Torre and Johnson won Championships in New York,
WOW! This is amazing, thanks so much for this! I wish the Mets were like this now, but our time will come...and damn it, they might be Bums but they're our Bums--and always Amazin'! From a fan who's never been to New York, lived in California his whole life and grew up idolizing Mike Piazza and the Mets, scrounging through newspaper accounts and radio and treating the occaisonal Dodgers-Mets TV game with Vin Scully as the hbighlight of the season short of the series... LET'S GO METS!
Joe Torre hit into that double play and that is trivia enough, but here's another trivia question. Can you guess who was the on deck batter when Torre ended the game?
I was at this game with my father I was in left field and 10 years old at the time. When they hit the last homerun you can get a really good look at the people in left field where I was. I just wish I knew what blur was me and my father but I am sure we are both in the picture.
+Tom Dockery Boy were you ever lucky to witness this. This was a 6-0 Mets' win, with the game ending at 9.07. Boy, baseball sure used to played a lot quicker at one time. This was probably a 7.00 start. 2 hrs and 7 minutes, commercials included. Nowadays, you could add about 35-45 minutes to that time.
After all these years it's still one of the best lockeroom celebrations despite the numerious Yankee Championships.I asked a Yankee fan and he said ,"Of course the Mets went crazy they don't win as remotely as often as my Yanks.
At 1:14 I am a blur with my father 15 rows back down the left field line. Also never mentioned in any of the papers but a kid fell off the scoreboard and broke his leg. They were stealing lights off the score board and that's how he fell. I guess this was not big news because it would of been bad publicity for the team.
Yeah I was 10 years old and a Yankee fan so I actually was rooting for the Cardinals. I didn't realize Steve Carlton was pitching he wasn't that well known then.
BTW I was responding to comments on the Brooklyn Dodgers video Ghosts of Flatbush. I reminded all the ones who lamented the loss of the Dodgers to watch this video and reminded them this would never have happened had the Dodgers not left. Redemption for NY National league fans.
At 6:52 one Herbert Walker jr, part-owner. Note the name. Yes, as in George Herbert Walker Bush, #41 George Walker Bush. #43. George Walker Bush wasn't the first one in the family to have ownership of an MLB team.
+dw438 I didn't know that. That kind of puts a damper on this, since I consider almost every member of that family worthy of death by decapitation. The family name simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That they are associated with something as positive and inspiring as the 69 Mets is the only blight on that otherwise joyous occurrence.
Those New York Mets fans would throw bottles, batteries, anything they could get their hands on at visiting players. They were nothing but wild animals without conscience or class. They knew nothing about baseball either. I was especially glad to watch Pete Rose kick Bud Harrelson's ass at second base in the '73 NLCS then promptly hit a game winning home run off Harry Parker in game 4. Yankee fans had a little more class, but not much. CINCINNATI REDS '75 '76 WORLD CHAMPS.. team of the '70s
@tishhead Harrelson deserved it! Rose also blackened Wayne Garrett's eye for kicking him in the back during that same fight... If not for Bench restraining Rose, the whole Met's infield would have wound up on the disabled list.
Just simply... wonderful childhood memories (for me as well as) for New Yorkers and every Mets fan everywhere back then!!
The soundtrack of my youth, 13 years old, watching this on TV then going to the third game of the playoffs where the Mets swept out the Braves and then going to games 3, 4 and 5 of the World Series and watching the Mets finish off the Orioles! I didn’t go to school much those two weeks!
Hodges was such a gentleman. Did a lot for baseball in New York City.
And finally a well deserved and long overdue honor of being elected into the Baseball HOF! He did a lot indeed, Rudolph, especially in my home borough of Brooklyn where I grew up and where Hodges lived for many years!
@@stupaul3233
I tried out for Gil Hodges Little League in 1969 but didn't make the cut.
51 years ago tonight! I will never forget it! RIP Gil Hodges, Charles and Joan Payson, Herb Walker, Johnny Murphy, Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, Rube Walker, Eddie Yost, Yogi Berra, Tom Seaver, Ed Charles, Tommie Agee, Donn Clendenon, Don Cardwell, Tug McGraw, Cal Koonce, Jim Bibby, Dan Frisella, Gus Mauch and Joe Deer! Gone but never forgotten! Thank you for a wonderful season and memories!
Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner, and Lindsey Nelson. What a crew in the booth, just doesn't get any better than that.
True but Vin Scully was the only exception!
God bless you Tom Seaver we love you.
I didn't think I'd ever see a footage of this game... one in which I watched back in 1969 on tv as a kid (I was turning 12 on November 20th)… when "The Amazins" clinched the NL Eastern division with a 6-0 victory over the Cardinals. Gary Gentry pitched an awesome game that wonderful evening!! Thank you much for posting this!!! 👌
It's been 49 years since this took place and it STILL brings tears to my eyes everytime watch this. I was 11 years old and my parent allowed me to stay up to watch this game .
Brownstone Guy we are the same age. Luckily for us, Game started and hour earlier than usual , at 7:05, and played in 2 hours. It was an unforgettable night.
I turned 11 a month later and I am crying with happiness watching this now but sad for those who are no longer around! Still I thank God for being from and being raised in New York City and seeing the Jets, Mets and Knicks winning for the first time during that even with New York City and the country having problems then! Wish the current NYC teams can build a championship culture like back then and unfortunately it’s been difficult! Steve Cohen, you grew up as a Mets fan! Please build a team that can remind us of beautiful memories like 1969-a year and era that we will NEVER forget as long as we live!
I honestly do not think there was ever a more joyous group or celebration! It is somewhat haunting to see all of these guys in their prime. What a moment in time!
I was there, and on the field. Incredible memories.
8:57 Seaver seems reasonably pleased.
6:05 "It's a wonderful feeling, it's a wonderful feeling! Oh, mercy!!!" Doesn't get any better than that. Ed, you said it perfectly, for all New York!
At 4:09 is my hero, Gil Hodges. He deserves to be in the HOF and one day he will be. I stayed up past my 3rd grade bedtime to watch this miracle and stayed home 'sick' to watch the W.S.
How do you feel today now he's a hall of famer?
4:08
Mikeyt369 Gil is now in the HOF Finally.
You can tell Gil was a great individual.
Thank You Gregg for your contribution to great NY Baseball History. We were very Lucky to Grow up in the last 50 Years. I am very happy to have been able to share these memories with you as a Friend. We experienced it all from memories like this to the great 1979 Super Mets . I only wonder if with Asshole Jeff Wilpon, will we ever have a chance to see another Championship!!!!!
They played TOGETHER !! Brings years to my eyes. A beautiful thing.
“How sweet it is” classic Bob Murphy
Lindsay nelson was a great announcer and great man
No place rocked like Big Shea ❤
the greatest trade in baseball history.
On September 24, 1969, 2 days before "The Brady Bunch" premiered on ABC, the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 to clinch their 1st ever National League East title in franchise history.
"Here comes the glider! Oh, watch this scene." 0:40. Called by Bob Murphy.
RIP Murph. This NY baseball fan once Met now Yankees, loved those "happy recaps."
Gil Hodges isn't in the Hall of Fame? That's an injustice.
Agreed.
Absolutely.
Fortunately he was inducted this year.
@@ChrisDutch Yes, he is, finally!
Love this rare 1969 stuff.....would be great if this was somehow upgraded to a higher quality...very historic✌️
Seaver just KILLS me... It's all so sweet and wonderful... and I remember From the Mets with Love too, from the 80's... check SNY now- many Winik brothers films are finally being used after years of being forgotten, thanks to fans shaming Wilpon into understanding METS history and not bogus Dodgerdom.
Happy 74th birthday Gary Gentry!
This was the night before my 11th birthday. I can't name the entire 1986 roster, but will always remember every player on the 1969 team.
Donn Clendennon hit a BOMB !!!
Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones we’re boyhood pals back in Mobile, Alabama…the same town that gave us two great Hall of Famers…BILLY WILLIAMS and one HENRY AARON
I miss Shea Stadium. Say what you will about Shea it was home. Nice memories here early Mets history.
From the time I lived here 1969, 1973 & 1986, I will NEVER forget.
Wow! I can't believe you had this. This is never seen. I remember it well and it's amazing to watch. the interviews are great. You appreciate the great Met Announcers of Bob Murphy, Lindsay Nelson and Ralph Kiner. This celebration started it all for that great team and thanks for posting this.
Think about it, the great Lindsey Nelson puts the time of the win at 9:07. I believe the game started at 7:05 which means it was a two hour ballgame. Now a nine inning game takes forever. I love baseball, but it has become unwatchable!
No bat flips, no standing and posing, no 3 minute tour around the bases, just taking care of business.God bless the '69 Mets.
Also, no cameras constantly sticking in the players' faces and invading the 'privacy' of the dugouts!
Thats how baseball should be played!
Baseball has always been a radio sport. When television began to expand baseball’s reach I think that’s when the showboating really started to take over.
@8:57…behind Ralph Kiner…number 30…went on to become one of the greatest pitchers of all time…I think we ALL know who that is…👍👍👍
Anyone else notice that Lindsey Nelson wasn't wearing one of his colorfully patterned blazers for which he was well-noted?
Before the game Lindsey told RALPH that this was the jacket he wore on the first Mets TV broadcast in 1962
There's never been team like the 1969. One paper, they weren't the greatest team ever, but from mid August till they went on to win the series, no team ever played better.
Awesome footage ... thank you
I was at the game. The Glider and Clink really teed off on the Cards in the first inning.
Loved Gil Hodges. How badly does baseball miss a guy like him as a manager.
That's a manager right there.
Congratulations Cubs on this day too you they officially blew a nine game lead from mid August
Thanks so much for this great memory. I was 9 in 1969 went to met games since 65. My dad got his hands on two tickets for game 4 droped my brother and I off at shea, he then went to lums chinese resturant in flushing to watch from the bar tv.
Thanks dad for letting us go (since he had two boys and only two tickets) Thanks greg for the great memories "lets go mets".
I was there didn't want to go home.
Thanks for posting this. It brought back some wonderful memories.
Awesome vintage video!
I was there that night-with a Yankee fan.We were way up in the mezz by the left field foul pole.
NOT SO FUN FACT…this was turn out to be STEVE CARLTON’s shortest outing throughout his illustrious 23 season HALL OF FAME career…hadn;t quite perfected that devil slider just yet..
Last home game of the season which made it sweet to clinch initial pennant at home.
listen to that organ
Jane Jarvis!
wow!!! Thank you so much...so great to hear Gil Hodges voice!..these guys were pretty special...a total team effort....time for WOR to break out the archives!
Gil Hodges biggest thrill. Says a lot from a member of 55 Brooklyn Dodgers.
WHY HASN'T LINDSAY NELSON' BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE METS' HALL OF FAME ? JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
Long live the New York Mets
I was there that night, just 3 weeks before my 13th birthday. It's hard to describe what it felt like. When you're that young, it seems like the biggest and best thing that ever happened in the history of the world. I remember a woman in the upper deck fainting when Donn Clendenon hit the second homer.Thanks so much for posting it
You do realize, genius, that the Mets' pitching staff that year (Seaver, Koosman, Ryan, Gentry, Cardwell, etc.) went on to win almost 1,000 games. If they had played that Orioles team 100 times they would have won 80. And they would taken 99 of 100 from that Pirates team.
Amazing how young Murph and Kiner sound in this.
Frank Maiorana The format on television for the clincher was:
Bob Murphy (PBP) 1-4
Ralph Kiner (PBP) 5-6
Lindsey Nelson (PBP) 7-9
I vivdly remember watching this game - brings back a lot of sweet memories.
After Clendenons second HR you can hear Jane Jarvis with her home run celebration song. Great memories!
Any idea of the name of the song? I always wanted to know.
Brickyard Hill Studios I don't know it. I'll try to research it and see what I find. I found another classic of hers called "Let's Go Mets" which she played before the Mets would take the field. It's on UA-cam and you'll recognize it.
That one I know - the song when the Mets take the field. It's my favorite. I have a clean copy that was posted on WOR's website last year. Good luck searching the '69 home run song. By 1972, Jane played Meet the Mets after home runs.
Brickyard Hill Studios thanks I'm going to give it a good try. Wonder if it was her composition or part of another song. I thank the latter so we'll see what I can find.
An original Jarvis composition called "He Hit One".
My God, how did you get your hands on this tape ? It's probably the only surviving footage of the '69 regular season. Do you have the whole game? Wish it could be broadcast on SNY. Thanks so much, Brickyard !! :-)
Thanks! This is all that exists as far as I know, and it came from a Channel 9 WOR special called From Mets With Love, aired prior to the inaugural League Championship Series. I've read that the master tape was given to Lindsey Nelson's family. But I don't know if that's true. Yes, it would be nice if this could be found and aired or made available.
What I love is the simplicity of the production: 4 Cameras, High home, 1st and 3rd and the best angle ever - ground level behind home plate. No camera man running on field after homer.
Hey Brickyard (this is actually Helenpol's husband, John, a Mets fan fan since '71 :-) )...Thanks so much for the reply !! It mystifies me that we don't see any tapes of the September runs in '69 & '73 on SNY. I put that question out there once on their web site...and a guy said he believes that WOR might have re-used their sports video tapes over & over again in those days, meaning that the master tapes have been lost forever. God, I hope that's not true (Wow, this is the first time I'm hearing of a possible connection to Lindsey Nelson's family !!). You took me back with the reference to the special "From the Mets, With Love". I recall seeing it on Channel 9 sometime in the late 80s...and, yes, footage of the NL East clincher was included.
If you check the 1969 Cubs stories on UA-cam, you will find highlights of the come from
Behind win On July 8, and Seaver’s near perfecto the next night! WOR and WGN had Channel 9 and both stations shared the same cameras! Of course WGN in Chicago! I smiled when the Cubs legendary announcer Jack Brickhouse said in disgust “CAUGHT and DROPPED by Young!” 😅
Me and my best friend we were both fourteen were there on that day, both of us went on the field where we collected some of the turf and some dirt. I kept my patch of grass alive until the next spring and the dirt I had for years, don't know what happened to it. What great memories!
This is great! I was 10, but I remember watching this on TV
Joe Torre hit into the game ending double play. I wonder what ever happened to him?
As soon as Clendenon hit that three run homer off Steve Carlton in the first inning, I KNEW it was all over! I didn’t care if there were 8 innings to go! The 1969 Mets were destined to win it! Even with the early run support, Rookie Gary Gentry was up to the task and he did an outstanding job! As a 10 year old Brooklyn boy, I enjoyed the thrill of watching this game on WOR-TV, Channel 9 from the start when Bob Murphy told the audience that if the Mets win it, it’s all over! He did state that young Mr. Gentry had quite a task in front of him against a young but an already established Steve Carlton and he sure out pitched Carlton big time! Carlton gave up a total of 4 homers in his last two starts against the Mets! Then the pandemonium on the field at Shea Stadium and the clubhouse celebration was wild and incredible! I won’t ever forget it! What was important was NONE of the Mets players got hurt when they had to run for their lives and made it home even when they drank and sprayed all that champagne!
I remember it as though it were yesterday.
I’m paraphrasing here but Lindsay says “at 9:07 Mets won the championship”. Games didn’t start until 8pm Back then. This couldn’t have been a 1 hour game. What am I missing?
John Kowal That night, the game started at 7pm. How fortunate for us kids.
It was the final home game and an early 7:05 start for fan appreciation night. Games were played at a much brisker pace then. 2 hours now under 3 hours is considered quick.
Sports Historians: That's the wildest on field celebration I've ever seen.
Mets Fans: Hold my beer!
Look at the smile on The Glider! 6:02
Not too serendipitous, but that's none other than Joe Torre grounding into the double play at 1:25. He, of course, would later manage the Mets. Davey Johnson, who made the last out of the '69 World Series would go on to manage the Mets. Both Torre and Johnson won Championships in New York,
WOW!
This is amazing, thanks so much for this!
I wish the Mets were like this now, but our time will come...and damn it, they might be Bums but they're our Bums--and always Amazin'!
From a fan who's never been to New York, lived in California his whole life and grew up idolizing Mike Piazza and the Mets, scrounging through newspaper accounts and radio and treating the occaisonal Dodgers-Mets TV game with Vin Scully as the hbighlight of the season short of the series...
LET'S GO METS!
Joe Torre hit into that double play and that is trivia enough, but here's another trivia question. Can you guess who was the on deck batter when Torre ended the game?
I was at this game with my father I was in left field and 10 years old at the time. When they hit the last homerun you can get a really good look at the people in left field where I was. I just wish I knew what blur was me and my father but I am sure we are both in the picture.
@FiberMania And the final breakdown of the 1973 NLCS was...what?
Love this video, where on earth did this come from. Anything out there from 69 NLCS, 73NLCS or 73 World Series
i have a lot of that show on tape, will try to get it uploaded...
My birthday, I was 9 Joe Torre and my grandfather were good friends. I got autographed balls from both teams
Never throw a slider to the Glider...Carlton did and Charles took him deep...
I was there but didn't go on the field,as my friend had a bad leg.
+Tom Dockery Boy were you ever lucky to witness this. This was a 6-0 Mets' win, with the game ending at 9.07. Boy, baseball sure used to played a lot quicker at one time. This was probably a 7.00 start. 2 hrs and 7 minutes, commercials included. Nowadays, you could add about 35-45 minutes to that time.
After all these years it's still one of the best lockeroom celebrations despite the numerious Yankee Championships.I asked a Yankee fan and he said ,"Of course the Mets went crazy they don't win as remotely as often as my Yanks.
At 1:14 I am a blur with my father 15 rows back down the left field line. Also never mentioned in any of the papers but a kid fell off the scoreboard and broke his leg. They were stealing lights off the score board and that's how he fell. I guess this was not big news because it would of been bad publicity for the team.
bobmilin you were there? I bow to you. To me, this was the most magical night in Mets history. Seaver's imperfect game probably #2.
Yeah I was 10 years old and a Yankee fan so I actually was rooting for the Cardinals. I didn't realize Steve Carlton was pitching he wasn't that well known then.
ua-cam.com/video/N9g3jLLXlf8-/v-deo.html link I hope to Jane Jarvis and let's go Mets.
BTW I was responding to comments on the Brooklyn Dodgers video Ghosts of Flatbush. I reminded all the ones who lamented the loss of the Dodgers to watch this video and reminded them this would never have happened had the Dodgers not left. Redemption for NY National league fans.
It's kind of spiritual. The Brooklyn Dodgers (and NY Giants) had to die for the Mets to be born.
what a warped world we live in,to make these comments.
At 6:52 one Herbert Walker jr, part-owner. Note the name. Yes, as in George Herbert Walker Bush, #41 George Walker Bush. #43. George Walker Bush wasn't the first one in the family to have ownership of an MLB team.
+dw438 I didn't know that. That kind of puts a damper on this, since I consider almost every member of that family worthy of death by decapitation. The family name simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That they are associated with something as positive and inspiring as the 69 Mets is the only blight on that otherwise joyous occurrence.
@WSP58 You got it, WSP58!
WOW,THANK YOU
dude! where on earth did you get this????
Yogi Berra @2:16
Rose breaks up double play at second base... Harrelson elbows Rose and calls him "cock*ucker".... In rapid fashion it's Rose over Harrelson TKO.
Those New York Mets fans would throw bottles, batteries, anything they could get their hands on at visiting players. They were nothing but wild animals without conscience or class. They knew nothing about baseball either. I was especially glad to watch Pete Rose kick Bud Harrelson's ass at second base in the '73 NLCS then promptly hit a game winning home run off Harry Parker in game 4.
Yankee fans had a little more class, but not much. CINCINNATI REDS '75 '76 WORLD CHAMPS.. team of the '70s
FiberMania Oakland A's the team of the 70s 72 73 74 world series champions and they beat the big red machine in 72 in 7 games all close games btw
Were you also glad watching the Mets on TV in the '73 World Series, like the Reds did?
@tishhead Harrelson deserved it! Rose also blackened Wayne Garrett's eye for kicking him in the back during that same fight... If not for Bench restraining Rose, the whole Met's infield would have wound up on the disabled list.
69 mets worst team to win a world series the 2002 pirates were better than this team
They won 100 games,most in the National League,second most in baseball. The 2002 Pirates were 72-89.
Tom Seaver 25 wins followed by Koosman and Gentry. Ryan spot starter- this was no weak team winning it all.