Date this.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Date this picture.

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[Edgy MD]

5/19/1979. First inning.

[Guest d'Kong76]

No idea of the date, but that's one Monstrously Huge Batboy!

[ashie62]

I believe I see Kooz peeking out from the left of the dugout.

[Frayed Knot]

And I think that's Tim 'Crazy Horse' Foli on the far right.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Yes to Crazy Horse and Kooz. But if 1979 was depicted in that photo, there'd be a last name on the back of the Mets jersey.

[ashie62]

No disrespect but that ain't 5/19/79 #50 in the dugout is not Andy Hassler.

Next.

[ashie62]

Lenny Randle scoring? Bob Boone catching?

[Frayed Knot]

[crossout:vx1gvwge]4/17/78[/crossout:vx1gvwge]

No, that's not right either.

[Lefty Specialist]

Looks like Ted Simmons catching for the Cardinals.

[Frayed Knot]

8/13/78

4th inning. Randle is on 2nd following a leadoff walk + SB tries to come home on a Bobby Valentine single but is thrown out by RF Jerry Mumphrey. And, yes, that's Ted Simmons.
Coincidentally, the top of that very same inning ended when StL 1B Keith Hernandez was thrown out at home on a single to RF by Joel Youngblood.


http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=2724&tabno=D

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: 8/13/78 4th inning. Randle is on 2nd following a leadoff walk + SB tries to come home on a Bobby Valentine single but is thrown out by RF Jerry Mumphrey. And, yes, that's Ted Simmons. Coincidentally, the top of that very same inning ended when StL 1B Keith Hernandez was thrown out at home on a single to RF by Joel Youngblood. http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=2724&tabno=D

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I was just about to reveal the answer, figuring that this one was really tough.

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Edited May 16, 2015 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

Date this one.

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[Edgy MD]

I looked for Randle scoring against the Cardinals in a day game at home. Couldn't find any such occurrences, so I lied to myself and convinced myself that it was Taveras, even thought he was lighter skinned than Randle and usually wore a beard.

It didn't occur to me to look for Randle getting thrown out, as Simmons doesn't seem to have received the ball yet.

[Frayed Knot]

^ 7/9/82
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[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: ^ 7/9/82 ^ ^ ^

The Mets weren't yet wearing home racing stripes in 1982.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: ^ 7/9/82 ^ ^ ^ The Mets weren't yet wearing home racing stripes in 1982.

Yeah, y'see this is where I'm at a disadvantage here as I pay less attention to uniform minutia than just about anyone here.

So I'll try 8/31/84

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

82 too early for those ugmo Pads unis too

[HahnSolo]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Date this one. [fimg=766]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5444/17118842223_879c63707e_o.jpg[/fimg]

I'll go with 5/19/83

PADRES 1ST: Wiggins walked; Wiggins stole second; Bonilla lined into a double play (second to shortstop) [Wiggins out at second]; Richards walked; Garvey singled to right [Richards to third]; Garvey was picked off first but was safe on an error by Hodges [Richards scored (unearned), Garvey to second]; Kennedy struck out; 1 R (0 ER), 1 H, 1 E, 1 LOB. Padres 1, Mets 0.

[Frayed Knot]

Now see I was guessing that to be Garry Templeton.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Date this one. [fimg=466]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5444/17118842223_879c63707e_o.jpg[/fimg] I'll go with 5/19/83 PADRES 1ST: Wiggins walked; Wiggins stole second; Bonilla lined into a double play (second to shortstop) [Wiggins out at second]; Richards walked; Garvey singled to right [Richards to third]; Garvey was picked off first but was safe on an error by Hodges [Richards scored (unearned), Garvey to second]; Kennedy struck out; 1 R (0 ER), 1 H, 1 E, 1 LOB. Padres 1, Mets 0.

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Edited May 17, 2015 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

Next....

[Edgy MD]

I was thinking that Jerry Mumphrey, locking me into 1980, his only year on the Padres.

Gene Richards, I forgot existed, if I ever knew.

[fimg=250]http://www.morthas.com/cards/370_83F_Richards.jpg[/fimg]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Is that Randle again? Looks like Lenny.

[Edgy MD]

May 22, 1981

[Frayed Knot]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Is that Randle again? Looks like Lenny.

I dunno, I don't remember him with UNE tattooed on his left arm, but maybe I just missed it back then.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Next....

Hint: The Mets wore that style road uniform from '74 to '77. It's a road uniform because there are no pinstripes and the tone on Keith's uni inidicates white -- not powder blue. The only Mets infielders to wear #11 during that period were Wayne Garrett and Lenny Randle, and it ain't Wayne because the tone on the infielder's skin ain't no powder blue if you know what I mean. If it's Lenny, it's got to be 1977. Lenny was a two year Met, and in 1978, Lenny's second and last Met season, the Mets introduced their two button jerseys with sleeve piping, which that jersey ain't got.

So it's a 1977 road game at St. Louis. You could tell it's a road game by the outfield wall in the background, also.

[seawolf17]

This is a fun thread; I don't have the time to do research on this one because I'm running out to a meeting, but I love it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I like this thread too but it's not really a guessing game, it's a looking-it-up game and so whenever I see a guess submitted I figure it's game over and don't play.

[batmagadanleadoff]