1979 Yearbook

[Guest cooby]

Oh yeah.

The best thing that ever happened to me in my laundry room.


All kidding aside, I walked in the house, went right downstairs (after petting the cat and saying hi to the boy) and opened the box thinking "nah, not me", and there it was. Holy cow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I just received a batch of cellophane bags to put them in this evening.

My books:

1968R
1969
1970 (x2)
1971
1971R
1972
1973
1974
1975 (Thanks, Coo)
1976 (x2)
1977 (Missing)
1977R (Missing)
1978
1979

1984 (x2)
1985
1986
1987
1987R
1988
1989
1990 (x2)
1991 (x2)
1992

2002
2003
2004

[Zvon]

wow!
I did not know that about the 74 yearbook.

That is amazing

I had 62 to 7?...,...at least up until I moved out of NY in the late 70s.
After that my collecting yearbooks became sporatic.

When I 1st got into the Mets...there was this kid from school who had em all.
Im tryin to make sure I remember this right......I dont think I traded anything for them. Baseball cards? No.....
If I remember right he gave em to me.
The kid was younger than me and I guess his dad started the collection or something.
And the kid was onea those only children who got alot from his folks and didnt have many friends. He wanted a friend and didnt seem to interested in em.
I was like "these are awsum"and he was like "you can have em."

I remember actually feeling guilty carryin em home....for a few seconds, anyway.
The kid and I did end up being good friends and played CYO baseball together for years.

I really loved looking thru those from time to time.
Lost em somewhere along the way, cant specifically remember how or when. By the 80s I think they were Zhistory.

[Zvon]

Favorite cover and favorite yearbook are two different things, imo.

I loved this cover cuz I loved the special 25th anniversary logo. I thought that was just the koolest(still have a hat with it on it from 86.)
I loved the Mets regular logo as it was (BEST LOGO IN SPORTS HISTORY!) but I really dug this special one.
This cover had that, and it was a kool shiney silver.

[Zvon]

Yancy, do you have a list of the 138 players pictures you need?

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

I forget what year it was, after I get back from my trip this weekend I'll scan it (unless someone gets it up first) but there is a shot of Wayne Garrett with some kids enjoying Batting Glove Day. Not sure if the photo is on the Promotions Day page or what, but one of the kids (gotta be 6-8 years old) is clearing giving Wayne the finger!

My guess the kid was an MFY fan incognito!

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Got a pretty decent collection, every edition since '69 and scattered among the others. At some point I'll go back to looking for all the 60's variations.

Also have a run of Media Guides going back to 70, it would be to 68 but the 69 is a bit elusive and expensive (Gee I wonder why?)

Interestingly enough my 68 MG copy belonged to a public library at one point! I wonder how many guides and yearbooks found there way into public library collections? Hmmm

[Guest Edgy DC]

One of my MGs has a library sticker also. Some crafty guy picked it up for a dime before flipping it to me, I guess.

[Benjamin Grimm]

My 1969 yearbook is autographed by both Bob Murphy and Nolan Ryan. (Or by somebody pretending to be them.)

I got it cheap on eBay last year. I think buyers probably didn't believe that the autographs were authentic and didn't want to pay for a marred yearbook.

Me, I didn't care about it being slightly scribbled on, and was able to get it much cheaper than I would an unautographed copy. So I may have gotten a real bargain. The seller told me so after the auction ended. I think he was hoping to get many times more than what I spent. (I think it was something like $25.)

(Zvon, I'll post a list of my missing faces maybe later today.)

[Guest cooby]

Ha! That reminds me of my 1991 yearbook.

I was flipping through it one day and noticed that suddenly, the Mackey Sasser page was autographed!

I questioned my little daughter, who was pretty proud of herself...

[Benjamin Grimm]

You should contact Mackey and share that heart-warming story.

[Guest cooby]

If only somebody would invite me here

[soupcan]

I have a crapload of autographs on the team picture fold-out from the '78 book. I must've gotten half of that god-awful team that year.

This is definitely a top ten yearbook cover by the way...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Agreed. Although the runner may be safe, no?

[Guest cooby]

Stoins?

[Benjamin Grimm]

="cooby"] If only somebody would invite me here

Speaking of Mackey Sasser, he's being mentioned on a gay pornography web site. (And in case you're wondering, I found it because of the link to the UMDB, not due to any browsing of my own! Not that... oh, never mind.)

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

What are they saying about him?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I didn't linger long enough. The thread there is a reply to a blog or something. The poster said something like, "Don't forget Mackey Sasser!" I didn't want to keep poking around to see what she was replying to.

Anyone else who's more adventurous than I am, or not currently at work, please go ahead. I am curious.

[Guest cooby]

If he was here, we could ask him! We're getting lots of stuff to say to him!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hey Mackey! Come visit us! We'd love to ask you questions about gay pornography!

[seawolf17]

And SNAP! Just like that, we're eliminated from the [u:55d6b04c6a]Parents[/u:55d6b04c6a] magazine "Family Web Site Of The Year" award for 2006 already.

[Guest cooby]

Eh, baloney, I opened it at work and the roof didn't even cave in.

[Zvon]

lol.
Macky Sasser gay.
yea, right.

Wasnt he the guy who recieved balls but couldnt give em back to the pitcher?

Not that theres...DOH....(been dun)

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm going after the 1981 yearbook. That one came with a fold-out poster that the one I'm bidding on is missing. Are they just referring to a two-page spread team shot, or was it a full wall-size poster?

By the way, in that Gallo illustration on the cover, Lee Mazzilli, Doug Flynn, and Neil Allen are pretty indistinguishable.

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: By the way, in that Gallo illustration on the cover, Lee Mazzilli, Doug Flynn, and Neil Allen are pretty indistinguishable.

and Joe Torre looks more like my Uncle Jerry.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: I'm going after the 1981 yearbook. That one came with a fold-out poster that the one I'm bidding on is missing. Are they just referring to a two-page spread team shot, or was it a full wall-size poster? By the way, in that Gallo illustration on the cover, Lee Mazzilli, Doug Flynn, and Neil Allen are pretty indistinguishable.

It was a wall poster. If I remember right it was four times the size of the yearbook; if you folded it in half twice it would fit inside.

I removed my poster from the yearbook and haven't seen it in years.

[Guest cooby]

By 1981 I was already married, so I doubt I hung mine up on the wall. I'll bet I still have mine; I will look tonight!

[Guest cooby]

Eh, what the heck, I went and looked before I left for work. It's there.

That thing is super! It is actually six yearbook-sized sections with a bright orange border.

Married or not, I remember poring over it.




I also ran across an old postcard that Mackey Sasser sent to my daughter. Now THERE"S a guy it'd be fun to invite here....

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

So invite him cooby. You know that Mackey wouldn't be able to resist your charms!

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, sans poster, the yabbuk is worth like, what? Half of what I'd otherwise pay? You think?