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Saturday Seasons: 1978- False Optimism
With the conclusion of the first season under the new realities of free agency and how the game was impacted, the results for Mets fans...
Jacob Kanarek
3 days ago5 min read
Saturday Seasons: 1977-- The Descent into the Dark
July 13, 1977. Mets versus the Cubs at Shea Stadium. Lenny Randle at bat, facing Ray Burris with one out in the sixth and the Mets...
A.J. Carter
Jul 59 min read
Saturday Seasons: 1976 Celebrating 15 Amazing Seasons
The post-mortem of the 1975 season, while ultimately characterized as a disappointment, was not the disaster that was 1974. The pitching...
Jacob Kanarek
Jun 284 min read
Saturday Seasons: In 1975, Disappointment, Disillusionment and Despair
The Mets began 1975 with great hopes and expectations. They ended it with disappointment, disillusionment and despair. And if you had to...
A.J. Carter
Jun 217 min read
Saturday Seasons : The 1974 New York Mets: A Season of Missed Opportunities and Endurance
After falling one game short of a second World Series title in five years in 1973, the New York Mets entered the offseason flush with...
Jacob Kanarek
Jun 145 min read
Saturday Seasons : The Forgotten Miracle: The 1973 Mets
Welcome to Saturday Seasons, the weekly series where we hop in the orange and blue DeLorean and cruise through one Mets season at a time,...
Mark Rosenman
Jun 713 min read
Saturday Seasons: 1972 -- The Sorrow and the Pity
The New York Mets began the 1972 season with great anticipation and expectations, including a pronouncement by their manager that this...
A.J. Carter
May 316 min read
Saturday Seasons: It's 1971. Gentlemen, Start Your Grousing
In 1969, the New York Mets stunned the baseball world by rising from the depths of the second division to win the World Series. In 1970,...
A.J. Carter
May 246 min read
Saturday Seasons: The 1970 Mets, the Year After the Miracle
The 1970 season began with the Mets in an unfamiliar position, as defending World Champions. After the miraculous 1969 season, the...
Howie Karpin
May 175 min read
Saturday Seasons: The 1969 Miracle Mets
The staff here at KinersKorner.com takes turns each Saturday recapping an individual Mets season, starting with the inaugural 1962....
A.J. Carter
May 1011 min read
Saturday Seasons: Hodges, Pitchers Take over in 1968
In the year of the Pitcher, 1968, Mets hurlers pitched in. Tom Seaver firmly established himself as the ace of the staff, winning 16...
A.J. Carter
May 36 min read
Saturday Seasons: 1967 The Franchise Arrives
The 1967 season saw the Mets lose over 100 games (61-101) for the fifth time in their six-year existence, but it also marked the debut of...
Howie Karpin
Apr 265 min read
1966: Escape from the Cellar
Nineteen Sixty-Six was a year of firsts for the Mets, and unlike their earlier seasons, not in a bad way. It was the first year they...
A.J. Carter
Apr 195 min read
Saturday Sessions: 1965: The Year the Mets Grew Up (Just a Little)
The 1965 season saw the Mets add two future Hall of Famers, draft a future Hall of Famer and beat a Hall of Fame pitcher for the first...
Howie Karpin
Apr 127 min read
Saturday Seasons: 1964, Finally a New Home Sweet Home for the Mets
The Mets’ third season of existence was essentially the same as their previous two as their won-lost record was par for the course, but...
Howie Karpin
Apr 56 min read
Saturday Seasons : The Losing Continues in 1963
Welcome to Saturday Seasons , where every week, we take a trip through the rollercoaster that is New York Mets history—one season at a...
A.J. Carter
Mar 296 min read
Saturday Seasons : The Birth of the Mets—And the Worst Season Ever
Welcome to Saturday Seasons , where every week, we take a trip through the rollercoaster that is New York Mets history—one season at a...
Mark Rosenman
Mar 225 min read
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