Queens of Queens: Met Mothers in 2021

[Edgy MD]

Betty Lee Seaver (nee Cline) was born September 2, 1913, in Butte, Montana, and died April 28, 1986, in Fresno, CA.



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Betty Lee fell in love with a song called "Scotch & Soda" on her honeymoon in 1932, and husband Charles asked the lounge pianist if she had the sheet music, which the pianist obligingly transcribed for the newlyweds.



Twenty-five years later, their daughter Katie was dating an aspiring musician. Wanting the best for her daughter's beau, she introduced him to the song she considered her's and her husband's. The musician was one-third of The Kingston Trio, and when his combo recorded the song, nobody knew who the composer was, so the young musician split the royalties with the Seavers. Legend has it that this minor windfall allowed the Seavers to enroll their son at USC before he was able to secure a baseball scholarship.



So if you want to know the hidden force that redeemed the sad sack Mets and turned them into champions, the name of that force is "folk music." I'm Paul Harvey, and now you know the rest of the story.



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That's good stuff right there

[whippoorwill]

Ver cool! I can only see Mrs Seaver Sr's ear though

[Edgy MD]

I'm embarrassed that I only learned about this last night.



There are probably a dozen holes in the actual timeline of that thesis, but still, "Folk Music Saved the Mets" is my new quasi-fact. I'm putting it on a tee-shirt.

[whippoorwill]

As a group, we are ever evolving.