Very Late Original Shea

[G-Fafif]

Shea in action, close to the the end of the de Roulet era (9/9/1979), looking as it won't again very soon. Quite surprised to find such quality video, not to mention the voices and the opposing batter.

[Edgy MD]

Well, certainly Burris was working fast. I'll give him that.



Burris was one of three 26's in between the two Kingmanian tenures.

[whippoorwill]

Yay John Milner!

[batmagadanleadoff]

September 9, 1979. Where were youse?



That was the only run Burrris allowed that game.Mets blow a 4-1ead to the eventual WS champs. John Stearns goes 3 for 4 with a walk and a double, but was also caught stealing - the weakest part of his game.

[Fman99]

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September 9, 1979. Where were youse?



That was the only run Burrris allowed that game.Mets blow a 4-1ead to the eventual WS champs. John Stearns goes 3 for 4 with a walk and a double, but was also caught stealing - the weakest part of his game.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Look at Milner leaning in and getting around. He absolutely punished those pitches he liked.



This was a Sunday afternoon; across the street McEnroe would beat Vitas Gerulaitis in the US Open final, internet says.



I suppose I was to begin the 1st or 2nd week of 8th grade.



Milner then was still the leading LH HR hitter in team history, Bob & ralph say.



Excluding the switchies, Strawberry, Conforto, Grandy, Doodoo and Delgado have since surpassed him

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[MFS62]

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September 9, 1979. Where were youse?

[Benjamin Grimm]

"And we have a three-to-one ballgame"



Bob really should have told us which team had the three and which team had the one.



John Milner at the time held the Mets record for most home runs in a season by a left-handed hitter.



Ten Mets left-handed batters have since hit more than 23 home runs in a season. (Switch hitters don't count.)



Let's try to name all ten of them. The usual quiz rules apply: No more than one pick per post, and no consecutive posts. Once you've posted, please wait until someone else has posted a name before you go again.

[G-Fafif]

Football Giants were losing to the Football Cardinals in the Meadowlands en route to the 0-5 start that would open the door to rookie Phil Simms. They led, 14-0, only to lose, 27-14, behind eternally embattled QB Joe Pisarcik. In the late game, Jets were about to get pulverized at Foxboro, 56-3, and fall to a disappointing 0-2. Matt Robinson's thumb swelled up in the opener and the team never recovered.



First full week of eleventh grade followed the next day. Three weeks of active Ed Kranepool remained.

[G-Fafif]

Darryl Strawberry (quiz).

[batmagadanleadoff]

Shea in action, close to the the end of the de Roulet era (9/9/1979),

Beat me to it on the 9/9/79 date. Didn't notice.



de Roulet Shea;



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Mo Vaughn (quiz)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Quiz:



Darryl Strawberry

Mo Vaughn



Eight to go.

[Frayed Knot]

Michael Conforto (quiz)

[batmagadanleadoff]

Ike Davis (quiz)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Quiz:



Darryl Strawberry

Mo Vaughn

Michael Conforto

Ike Davis



Six to go.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Carlos Delgado

[Frayed Knot]

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Ike Davis (quiz)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Grandy

[Benjamin Grimm]

Quiz:



Darryl Strawberry

Mo Vaughn

Michael Conforto

Ike Davis

Carlos Delgado

Lucas Duda

Curtis Granderson



Three to go.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Robin Ventura (quiz)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Quiz:



Darryl Strawberry

Mo Vaughn

Michael Conforto

Ike Davis

Carlos Delgado

Lucas Duda

Curtis Granderson

Robin Ventura



Two more.

[G-Fafif]

Cliff Floyd

[Edgy MD]

Jabe Ruce

[Benjamin Grimm]

And that completes our quiz!





Darryl Strawberry

Mo Vaughn

Michael Conforto

Ike Davis

Carlos Delgado

Lucas Duda

Curtis Granderson

Robin Ventura

Cliff Floyd

Jay Bruce

[MFS62]

John Olerud came knocking on the door with an answer, but couldn't come in.

He hit 22 ... twice.



Later

[Willets Point]

My family took a 10-day trip to Ireland in September 1979 so I might have been there or getting ready to depart. I missed a couple of weeks of first grade but back then no one had conniptions about "learning loss." The first Mets game I remember attending was in June 1980 (The Steve Henderson Game) and we sat in the orange field level seats. Were those installed/repainted in the 79-80 offseason?

[Willets Point]

This game also took place less than a month before John Paul hit a dramatic walk off and the fans charged the field to celebrate.

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[Edgy MD]

That was a cool alternate uniform, but I"m glad it didn't become their regular look.



So many buttons.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Willets Point wrote: My family took a 10-day trip to Ireland in September 1979 so I might have been there or getting ready to depart. I missed a couple of weeks of first grade but back then no one had conniptions about "learning loss." The first Mets game I remember attending was in June 1980 (The Steve Henderson Game) and we sat in the orange field level seats. Were those installed/repainted in the 79-80 offseason?

They replaced the original wooden seats with plastic seats sometime around 1981. I have, in my basement, a couple of fragments of the original wooden seats. There was a big pile of them, free for the taking, against a wall just inside one of the gates. My friends and I each gathered a few pieces on our way out of the stadium one day.