Beautiful images of 1969.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

This is too good not to share!

http://time.com/3879745/the-1969-new-york-mets-color-photos-of-a-legendary-team/

Which one is your favorite?

Hard to choose, but I'm going with this one of smiling Gil.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That's an unusual photo of the Koosman LIFE magazine cover, because it's missing the mailing address label that was affixed to the cover of subscribers' magazines. Newsstand copies were, obviously, sold without mailing label/stickers, but the issue photographed above is not a newsstand issue because the newsstand version of that particular magazine sold with a flap layered over the cover, about three or four inches wide, with copy/text listing the main articles inside the mag.

But because the photo above came from Time-Life, anything is possible. They might've doctored the photo to remove the flap ... or ripped the flap off neatly ... or that could be an issue taken from stock designated for subscribers, but reserved for Time-Life's archives before a mailing label was ever affixed.

[dgwphotography]

I just love how Seaver is framed here with the light hitting him just so...

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Those road jerseys are gorgeous. I want one.

I like the helpful sign at Forbes Field reminding players not to hit toward the stands.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Have to go with young Buddy, my first favorite position player.