Institutions Named for Mets

[Guest Edgy DC]

It seems we've referenced these all over the place, but it would be instructive to have them all in one place.

Gil Hodges Lanes
6161 Strickland Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11234
718-763-3333




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Fat Jack's Bar & Grill
2722 Freemansburg Avenue
Easton, PA 18045
(610) 250-7849

[stevejrogers]

Randy Jones All American Sports Grill
7510 Hazard Center Dr. Suite 215
San Diego, CA 92108
http://www.rjgrill.com

[Guest Edgy DC]

Way to sign across your crotch, Randy.

Randy Jones All American Sports Grill
7510 Hazard Center Dr. Suite 215
San Diego, CA 92108
PH: 619-296-9600
FAX: 619-296-4164

[G-Fafif]

This may belong in The Sons of Institutions Named for Mets befitting those establishments no longer operating, but there was Mickey Lolich's Donut Shop in Lake Orion, Mich. Ira Berkow, called up the old Met in 1989 on the subject of big-boned baseball players like Kevin McReynolds:

From his business establishment, Mickey Lolich's Donut Shop, appropriately enough, in Lake Orion, Mich., the one-time Tiger, Met and Padre hurler said: ''Throughout my 16 years in the major leagues, whenever things weren't going right, people always looked for reasons. For some, it was 'Maybe they're staying out too late at night,' 'Maybe too many outside interests,' 'Maybe their head's not screwed on right.' For me, it was 'He's too fat.' ''But when I was pitching good, they'd say, 'He's strong as a bull.' ''

[Willets Point]

Bobby Valentine's Sports Gallery Cafe
225 Main Street
Stamford, CT 06901

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ron Hunt Instructional Baseball Camp
2806 Jackson Road,
Wentzville, MO 63385 USA





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Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy
Mailing Address:
PO BOX 20,000
PMB 412
Can�vanas, PR 00729

School Location:
Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy
PR Road 6642 KM 2.0 (Bypass Heriberto Gonz�lez V�lez) Florida, PR 00650

"We're hiring! CBBA is seeking a Athletics Director."

That's, um, wonderful. Would you be interested in a English instructor also?

[G-Fafif]

Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center
On the campus of Montclair State University
8 Quarry Road
Little Falls, NJ 07424
973/655-2378



Museum currently closed for renovations. Perhaps painting over history, per the uniform tops sold at Citi Field.

[Benjamin Grimm]

What, no shirtless photo of Yogi?

[Guest Edgy DC]

We get a little swing-era ass in there also.

[stevejrogers]

Not named for the co-proprietor, but hey, it should count...though they are currently being sued for stealing tips and over-time pay.

Sofritony
http://www.sofritony.com/
400 East 57th Street (1st Ave)
New York, NY 10022
Telephone 212-754-5999
Fax 212-754-5959

[Guest Edgy DC]

Stevejacked.

[Theoldmole]

Rusty's

[Theoldmole]

[stevejrogers]

http://www.tugmcgraw.org/home.asp
The Tug McGraw Foundation
P.O. Box 45
Yountville, CA 94599

Street Address
Pathway/Madison Building
100 California Drive
Yountville, CA 94599
Phone: 707.933.6445
Fax: 707.676.4398
info@tugmcgraw.org



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[G-Fafif]

Keith's Grill
Citi Field
120-01 Roosevelt Ave.
Flushing, NY 11368

Home of the natural burger created personally by Mets great KEITH HERNANDEZ.

[G-Fafif]

Strawberry's Sports Grill
42-15 235th Street
Douglaston, NY 11363
718/517-8787

[G-Fafif]

The short-lived...

Lee Mazzilli's Sports Cafe
208 W. 70th St.
New York, NY 10023

Opened in 1994. Closed in 1994. Victim of the baseball strike and NHL lockout.

New York Magazine described "Maz's Mezzanine" as featuring 22 photos, including one framed in neon; seven "Maz" dishes, including Mama Mazzilli's tomato-and-basil linguine; and the presence of the restaurant's namesake (he didn't actually own a piece; accepted a fee for use of his name) two to three times a week. He came in for Monday Night Football.

What it was meant to be, per the Times:

Lee Mazzilli, the former New York Mets outfielder, is a partner in Lee Mazzilli's Sports Cafe, which will open at 208 West 70th Street in mid-May. It is a cavernous place that will have 350 seats, 50 television screens, a sports memorabilia shop and an area with games for children. Mr. Mazzilli said it will be a "family-oriented place where people can bring their kids." He described the food as American with Italian flair. The chef, Lucius Cherokee Wyatt, worked at Fat Tuesday's and the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Mr. Mazzilli's partners are Peter Kramer, a sports marketer who works with athletes, and Wendie Markman, who owns a large dairy.

What actually was, a few months later:

Peter Kramer opened Lee Mazzilli's Sports Cafe on the Upper West Side in June, the week the Rangers won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years. The Yankees seemed destined for the American League playoffs and maybe even the World Series. Mr. Kramer's long oak bar was crowded. The tables in the back were filled with neck-craning fans, staring up at the 100-channel video screens. What a difference a baseball strike can make. Not to mention a hockey lockout. "No baseball, no hockey, maybe no basketball," said Mr. Kramer, Lee Mazzilli's managing general partner. "It's like we put a jinx on sports." [...] After spending $500,000 for renovations in the spring, turning a storefront at 208 West 70th Street into a sports restaurant, with baseball bats on the ceiling and autographed photos of players on the walls, Mr. Kramer estimated that business was 50 percent below his first-year projections. He had expected to take in up to $2 million in his first 12 months. He had also expected 28 days of sold-out business from the playoffs and World Series. Instead, at 11 P.M. last Friday, he had 18 customers in a restaurant that seats 350. [...] Until football started in early September, he said, there were nights when last call was between 9 and 10. And nights that cricket or croquet might have seemed more exciting than what was on television. "I had nights I had bowling on," said Mr. Kramer. "We must have watched the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match a hundred times already. We must have watched the '86 World Series, with Lee at home plate with the tying run, a thousand times."

That alone, one would figure, would be a winning theme unto itself. Can't believe it didn't work.

[G-Fafif]

And from better times for the proprietor in Southern California, continuing the 1986 Mets can (or thought they could) put their names on anything...



(Somehow I expect there's an "official" Lenny Dykstra Bikini Inspector Team shirt available, too.)

Lenny Dykstra's Car Wash & Auto Repair
1144 E Los Angeles Ave
Simi Valley, CA 93065
805/581-9300

Mixed reviews at the Corona, CA, location.

[Guest themetfairy]

We actually frequented Mazzilli's place, because it was about a block and a half from our apartment building. It was a decent place, IIRC (it would have had to have been, because we certainly had other options in the 'hood but we went to Mazzilli's reasonably often during its short life), and I indeed recall it being family-friendly.

[metirish]

Darling's Diner



http://www.darlingsdiner.com/index.php

[stevejrogers]

Keeping with Greg's theme of Metly institutions that no longer are in operation, and my theme of Metly institutions that left the proprietor's names off of them:

Kranepool & Swoboda's The Dugout Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge
1000 Broadway
Amityville, Long Island



MetsGuyInMichigan had a nice writeup not too long ago including the fact that there is a KFC where The Dugout stood now, can't come up with the link at the moment.

and The Outfielder's Lounge, run by Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones on Astoria Blvd near Shea. Don't seem to see too much about it, or photos online for it at this time.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Not sure if this crappy little photo (above) will display, but it's of Mike Piazza Honda in Langhorne, PA. In the Philadelphia suburbs, I see a lot of cars with Mike Piazza's name on the license plate frames.