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The Lost 1986 Mets Game: How a Forgotten Lynchburg Exhibition Sent Me Down the Greatest Mets Rabbit Hole Ever
If you’ve read any of my stuff over the last three years, first of all thank you, and second of all my condolences. You already know I am dangerously prone to falling down Mets rabbit holes on the internet. One minute I’m innocently looking for a Gary Carter highlight to avoid doing something productive, and the next thing I know I’ve lost three hours, three 20 ounce bottles of Diet Pepsi, and any grip on the space-time continuum while watching pixelated footage of long-forgo

Mark Rosenman
3 days ago13 min read


Kollector’s Korner Met-o-ra-bil-ia Hall of Fame Inductee #10 : The Engineer of Amazin’: How David Svach Built One of the Most Meticulous Mets Collections Ever
If you’ve followed the first nine installments of our Kollectors Hall of Fame series, you already know this is where we celebrate the diehards , the fans whose devotion to the orange and blue doesn’t stop at the final out. These are the people who live Mets baseball, preserve its history, and build their lives around the memories the team has given them. This month, we induct a collector whose precision and passion are matched only by his loyalty. Meet David Svach, an Enginee

Mark Rosenman
Nov 15 min read


Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing #43 :The Yankees Had M&M, the Mets Had H&H: Meet the Mets’ Hiller and Haddix in ’67
Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where the dust smells like pine tar and nostalgia, and where we occasionally stumble across treasures we thought we’d forgotten. Last week, we focused on Ron Herbel, a sturdy right-hander whose brief but reliable stint with the Mets in 1970 made him the kind of pitcher every team needs: steady, uncomplaining, and quietly effective. This week, we return to the 1960s, to a Me

Mark Rosenman
Oct 266 min read


What Do Soupy Sales, Tony and the Tigers, and ‘Hullabaloo’ Have to Do with the Mets?
Today was one of those raw, gray October mornings, the kind that makes you reach for an old Mets yearbook instead of the remote, because...

Mark Rosenman
Oct 85 min read
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