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Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing #51 : Jim Beauchamp: The Forgotten Mets Bench Hero Who Shined When It Mattered
Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we brush the dust off the bubble gum cards, flip through the curling pages of old yearbooks, and rediscover the players who once made you pause mid potato knish and mutter, “Hold on… he was a Met, right?” Last week, we told the story of Randy “Moose” Milligan, a man whose Mets career could fit comfortably on a cocktail napkin but whose fingerprints somehow wound up al

Mark Rosenman
Dec 21, 20256 min read


40 Years Later: How 60 Minutes Captured the Rise of Dwight Gooden
If you want to understand just how big Dwight Gooden was in 1985 how he went from Tampa teenager to the most unhittable pitcher on planet Earth you don’t have to watch a highlight reel, or read a stat sheet, or listen to your Mets-fan uncle explain that he “hasn’t been the same since Doc left.” All you have to do is go back to Sunday, August 18, 1985, when one of the most powerful institutions in American journalism, 60 Minutes, showed up and said: Yep. This kid belongs her

Mark Rosenman
Dec 1, 20255 min read


Curtis, Carlos, and a Classic Afternoon in Flushing
One of the crueler tricks of time is how quickly baseball players turn into alumni. One minute, they’re legging out doubles and tracking...

Mark Rosenman
Sep 14, 20254 min read


Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing #31 : Joe Orsulak: Blue Collar in the Blue and Orange
Welcome back to Sunday School, our weekly trip through the cobwebbed corridors of Mets history, where we dust off the players who wore...

Mark Rosenman
Aug 3, 20253 min read


Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing #30: Beyond the Radar Gun: The Underrated Artistry of Terry Leach
Welcome to the thirtieth installment of Mets Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly meditation on the players who slip...

Mark Rosenman
Jul 27, 20255 min read
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