43 Years Ago Today

 I remember that I was in Hampton Bays for the summer of 1969 .I saw these events take place with many other people in the Coach bar in Hampton Bays . On another day that summer i spent several hours in the Coach watching Tom Seaver's attempt at a perfect game .
 
Jimmy Qualls...a name that will live in infamy !!

I'm sure you remember what people use to say about the Met's (pre-1969):

Men would walk on the moon before the Met's won a World Series !


....and they were right !! 
 
Jimmy Qualls...a name that will live in infamy !!

I'm sure you remember what people use to say about the Met's (pre-1969):

Men would walk on the moon before the Met's won a World Series !


....and they were right !! 
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lthough I would agree that it was far more likely for a man to walk on the moon than the Mets to win the World Series, but..

Alvin Dark, the manager of the Giants saw watched Gaylord Perry taking batting practice one afternoon in 1962, and then muttered, "They'll put a man on the moon before Perry ever hits a home run in the major leagues". It drew a big laugh. Minutes after the APollo landed on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first major league home run. As Casey Stengel would say "And you can look it up" 
 
Jimmy Qualls...a name that will live in infamy !!

I'm sure you remember what people use to say about the Met's (pre-1969):

Men would walk on the moon before the Met's won a World Series !


....and they were right !! 
Click to expand...
 
lthough I would agree that it was far more likely for a man to walk on the moon than the Mets to win the World Series, but..

Alvin Dark, the manager of the Giants saw watched Gaylord Perry taking batting practice one afternoon in 1962, and then muttered, "They'll put a man on the moon before Perry ever hits a home run in the major leagues". It drew a big laugh. Minutes after the APollo landed on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first major league home run. As Casey Stengel would say "And you can look it up" 
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I pitched at the Polo Grounds, both foul poles were probably under 300 feet.
 
I remember reading in TV Guide, that one man complained to the magazine, as well as his local TV station, that they pre-empted a showing of the 1950 science fiction movie, Destination Moon, a film about man's first moon landing, for the real thing. I guess he preferred Hollywood's flight to NASA's. Neither had monsters nor aliens. But he was disappointed.
 
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