Mets by the Footware Redux

[Edgy MD]

I kind of hijacked the narrative in the Casey-v.-Darling thread with shoe talk. The ROOS reference was to a series of threads 12 years back called Mets by the Footware, which I went back to find.



A lot of the photos are gone but we were trying (and failing) to make Met teams representing each brand of shoe. (Click imagees to enlarge.)



adidas:

• Lee Mazzilli


• Sid Fernandez


• Keith Hernandez

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Asics:

• Mookie Wilson


• Mike Piazza

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Converse:

• Tom Hausman

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Nike:

• Mike Piazza (again — interestingly, what I've found suggests that Nike was his catching shoe and Asics his first-basin' shoe.)


• Dwight Gooden


• Wally Backman


• Rey Ordóñez


• Al Leiter and Edgardo Alfonzo (as captured by DGW Photography)


• Kaz Matsui


• Cliff Floyd


• Darryl Strawberry


• Gary Carter


• José Reyes (and Paul Lo Duca?)


• Carlos Beltran

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Pony:

• Kevin McReynolds

[TABLE][TR][TD90]http://www.kcmets.com/DGWPhotography/DGWMcreynolds.jpg[/TD90][/TR][/TABLE]



ROOS:

• Ron Darling


• Vince Coleman

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Spalding:

• Jerry Grote

[TABLE][TR][TD90]https://www.jerrygrote.com/Mets.jpg[/TD90][/TR][/TABLE]



Still Out There:

Champion

Converse

Fila

Mizuno

Pro-Keds

Tretorn

Under Armour

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I seem to recall Seav for a time was a Spalding spokesman.



"New Spalding Wings feel like wings on you feet, and with wings on you feet you can fly..."



Respect McReynolds rocking the Ponys. They were my brand for a short while.



I think Kingman rocks Pumas in that Sporting News cover

[A Boy Named Seo]

I did not need this thread today.



Appears Sid had no shoe loyalty. Looks like a http://www.rndng3rd.com/NYMHall/players/F/sidfer_files/image020.jpgPony and an http://www.rndng3rd.com/NYMHall/players/F/sidfer_files/image022.jpgAsics maybe? Sorry, boss, I'll be looking at pictures of baseball cleats all day.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I've inexplicably left out Puma:

• Chad Bradford


• Dave Kingman


• John Stearns

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[Edgy MD]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Sorry, boss, I'll be looking at pictures of baseball cleats all day.

Sorry. If you're like me, though, the whole "boss" thing takes care of itself.

[Edgy MD]

Got to add Rusty to Team All-Day-I-Dream-About-Sex



adidas:

• Lee Mazzilli


• Sid Fernandez


• Keith Hernandez


• Rusty Staub

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That's kind of cool, since Lee Mazzilli and Keith Hernandez, despite being vets, were sort of proteges of Rusty's during their second tenure.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Nike:

Trachsel

http://mbtn.net/images/TRACHSEL.jpg>

Ventura

http://mbtn.net/images/Ventura.jpg>

Damon Buford

http://mbtn.net/images/bufordcard.jpg>

Backman

http://mbtn.net/images/backman.jpg>



Adidas:

Mientckiewicz

http://mbtn.net/images/Mientkiewicz.jpg>



Pony:

Hubie Brooks

https://ebid.s3.amazonaws.com/upload_big/2/6/9/uo_1530422399-21329-23.jpg>

Dykstra

http://mbtn.net/images/torve-magadan.jpg>



Puma:

Chad Bradford

http://mbtn.net/images/bradfordST.jpg>



Reebok:

Reed

http://mbtn.net/images/reed.jpg>