All-Star Game Flashback: Maz stars in ’79
Lee Mazzilli sat on the bench at The Kingdome in Seattle for seven innings, watching the 1979 Major League Baseball...
Mets Rewind
Player Profiles
Perfect for a Day
On June 21, 1964 Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Jim Bunning threw a perfect game against the New York Mets...
Subway Series: Dave Who?
Just as he did an hour earlier, New York Mets pitcher Dave Mlicki walked from the team’s dugout to the pitchers...
Fractured Prospect
Terry Collins remembers flying back from the team’s complex in the Dominican Republic. It was February 2009, and the...
Gregg Jefferies’ Rotten Apple
Gregg Jefferies’ career with the New York Mets is difficult to put into words. As a man he has been described...
One Play, Two First Basemen and the Elusive Third Out
Even in hindsight the story is hard to fathom. The New York Mets came to bat in the bottom of the 10th inning, at...
Forever Young
Don’t, OK? Save your breath – and Anthony Young’s time. Just get to the question. That’s right, the question; the...
Benny and the Mets
Talk about being unprepared? Benny Ayala stepped off a plane at LaGuardia airport just hours before first...
Broken
Dickie Thon described it this way: “It was like a boom … a dead sound. Like a thud.” Today, the boxscore...
Winfield and the Mets
Dave Winfield got his first taste of the New York Mets over lunch. For the Mets front office team of Nelson...
Seaver’s Strange, Crooked Road
On paper, Tom Seaver’s professional baseball career is remarkable. The man known in New York as “The Franchise” won...
The Education of Daniel Murphy
With one-half of a major league season experience in his back pocket, Daniel Murphy is still learning. His education...