Collecting fun Mets stuff

[Guest 41Forever]

My Funko Pop! Noah Syndergaard arrived today. I don't get many collectibles any more, sticking to the basic things like yearbooks and schedules. But I thought this was pretty fun.

[dgwphotography]

Cool! I’m waiting for my preorder to arrive

[Guest cooby]

I have a nightlight and s 70s Mets dachshund. If I dig around I’d find more

[Edgy MD]

It's almost exclusively the literature for me. The library building. I've tried to get all the media guides. (Don't ask about the prices on thee ones from the Willard Mullin era.) And then I like to try and get all memoirs from guys who played with the Mets. Even nominal figures, like Richie Ashburn, who may devote less than a chapter to his Mets tenure.

Beyond that, I try and collect all the books about Mets figures. But there are about 100 gifty-type books along the lines of The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra, most of them redundant, and few of them concerned with distinguishing truth from legend.

But some of the funner stuff can be the lightweight mythmaking stuff, like A Boys Scout's Guide to Tom Seaver, or that shitty DiGiornio's Mets comic book.

I've started and failed to catalog it all at least three times. And the proliferation of fan-written, vanity-press stuff can be depressing for a completionist, because some bloggers-turned-book-authors are great, but some are real tools.