Tommy Davis and All That Jazz

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Superlative job by David Jordan in this Tommy Davis-bylined recollection of life as a Met in 1967.

Did we lose 101 games? We sure did. But when you put good, young players on the field every day, they�re either goin� to the bank or they�re goin� to school. There was a lot of learning at Shea in 1967, but the difference between the early years and �67, the good players stopped making the same mistakes. That�s when you know it�s working. Some nights I would drive home from the game to my mother�s house in Brooklyn where I lived that season and the most delicious fish dinner was waiting for me on the kitchen counter. Some nights we�d be in midtown at the fancier hotel bars meeting an opposing player from out of town, bartenders at steakhouses in beige dinner jackets, old-school. Then there�d be Monday nights after a game - I would get changed in the clubhouse, give the beat guys like Jack Lang and Dick Young a quote or two to help keep them fed, and then this would be waiting for me at The Vanguard downtown.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wow that's great.