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Welcome to the first installment of The Mets Interview Vault: Lost Audio from Mets History. This series is all about digging through old recordings, dusty archives, and forgotten broadcasts to bring you the voices of the players, managers, and personalities who helped shape Mets history. Some of these interviews haven’t been heard in decades—sometimes they’ve been hiding in boxes, on reel-to-reel tapes, or tucked away in old radio and TV archives. Our mission is simple: to re

The 70s Mets' shortstop story is really about one person. He was scrappy, he was tough, and he was undersized, but he had an oversized heart. Buddy Harrelson broke onto the scene for the team in the late 60s, but the bulk of his work and his legacy were built in the 70s for the team. The first couple of years of the decade were arguably his best on the team. In his 1970 (all-star) season, he played a career-high 157 games. He batted .243, with 42 RBI, and 72 runs scored. He m