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Yesterday marked Keith Hernandez’s 72nd birthday ,and if that doesn’t make you feel old, consider this: when Keith sat down on David Brenner’s Nightlife on December 1, 1986, over 38 years ago it had only been 35 days since the Mets won the World Series. Just over a month removed from Mookie’s grounder rolling through Buckner’s legs, and New York was still floating somewhere between disbelief and euphoria. And there was Keith, the mustachioed captain of the newly crowned worl

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 find something we forgot we ever owned. Last week, we wandered off the basepaths entirely and into the barnyard, revisiting Homer the Beagle and Mettle the Mule , the two mascots who barked, brayed, and did their best to distract us from box scores that sometimes made you want to cover your eyes. T

If you were a Mets fan in 1992, you probably remember two things: You had to blow into your Super Nintendo cartridge to make Super Mario Cart work, and you had to do the same thing to your TV remote just to get through a Mets game. This was supposed to be a bounce back year for the Mets’ as we added A Few Good Men . But instead we got The Crying Game  .When the big reveal came, we couldn’t handle the truth and much like The Crying Game,  we were left blinking in disbelief, a

Baseball lost one of its quiet constants yesterday. Sandy Alomar Sr. the slick-fielding infielder, devoted baseball lifer, proud father, and one-time Mets coach passed away Monday in his native Puerto Rico at the age of 81. To most fans, the Alomar name brings to mind his two remarkable sons , Roberto, the Hall of Famer, and Sandy Jr., the six-time All-Star but before either of them was turning double plays or catching big league fastballs, there was the original: a 5-foot-9

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we dust off the bubble-gum...

If you’re a Mets fan of a certain age (translation: you still have VHS tapes labeled “Family BBQ” that are actually Game 6 of the ’86...

Back in 1969, if you were a Mets fan (and if you weren’t, you probably rooted for the Cubs and still haven’t forgiven Ron Santo for...

Moments become memories, and the Mets certainly have had their share. Decades worth of memories resurfaced Saturday at Citi Field with...

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we dust off the bubble-gum...

If you’re a Mets fan of a certain age (read: old enough to know that “streaming” isn’t Netflix, it’s what happens when your doctor frowns...

The day started out nice. In fact it was a great day to walk my new puppy. As many dog owners know, once a puppy gets its shots you need...

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we brush aside the...

It’s a strange thing when history and heartbreak collide. Davey Johnson, who once stood at second base for the Orioles and lofted the fly...

If you’ve been saving our first seven installments in plastic sleeves and alphabetizing them by subject, congratulations — you’re...

There was much optimism in the air around Shea Stadium when the 1985 season began. The expectations had risen after a 1984 season that...

Welcome back to the 34th edition of Sunday School: The Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we...

Welcome to the thirtieth installment of Mets Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly meditation on the players who slip...

Before PitchCom, before the analytics department, before catchers had laminated wristbands the size of a Denny’s menu, there was… hand...

Today, David Wright — The Captain, The Face, The Guy You Wanted Your Kid to Grow Up to Be — takes his rightful place in the Mets Hall of...

When you are lucky enough to be an accredited Major League Baseball Official Scorer, you get to know the people who are involved with the...