Getting Caught Up With Lori Martini
by It seems to me that baseball and movies just go together. Maybe it’s the great underdog story that the sport so often provides and that …
Category: New York Mets
The 2010 Season Preview: The New York Mets
by Lots of people are rooting for the New York Mets to bounce back from three straight seasons of excruciating painful baseball. Unfortunately for this rabid …
1969 New York Mets – Art Shamsky Remembers
(Editor’s Note- This story was originally published in the Summer 2008 issue of Gotham Baseball Magazine – MH) Living in New York City offers me …
Backman Where He Oughta Be
After years of exile, former Met named skipper of the Single-A Brooklyn Cyclones There have been few things in Wally Backman’s life that have come …
The New York Mets: Destined To Fail (Part 2)
Though he had a large hand in running the “day-to-day operations’ of the baseball team while holding a minority share in the team, once Fred Wilpon became a full partner, “he dove right into every facet of the club”, said one former club employee.
Toast of the Town
by In 1985, a very talented Mets team – some would argue the most talented Mets team ever – fell short in its season-long battle for …