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What was the text or phrase on the sign that Karl "The Sign Man" Erhardt held up after the last out was made in the Mets pennant clinching 1973 playoff game against the Reds?


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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
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THERE ARE NO WORDS


That was Erhardt's sign after the last out of the '69 WS was recorded.


So, in the future, I should probably like, read the question before answering, huh?


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Youse are gonna hafta up your games to win this quiz. Erhardt's sign was a lot more clevererer than the stuff youse are coming up with.


Here's a hint: Karl's sign was topical. It wouldn't have worked in the WS, for example.


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Chad Ochoseis wrote:
PETE ROSE IS AN ASSHOLE


...no clue, but given the hint, I gotta believe it's Rose-related.


You're not reading the clues properly. I hinted that Erhardt's sign was topical. A "PETE ROSE IS AN ASSHOLE" sign, on the other hand, is universal, and would work just as well whether the Mets opponents are the Reds, or, say, the Padres.



Let's turn this quiz into a Wheel of Fortune variant.

The first word in Erhardt's sign was .... "BIG".


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I should know this because I was there and he wasn't that far from me in game 5, after I snuck down to box. But I don't recall seeing him.

Was it about The Big Red Machine?


OE: Oh, started this before the posts above.


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I should know this because I was there and he wasn't that far from me in game 5, after I snuck down to box. But I don't recall seeing him.

Was it about The Big Red Machine?


OE: Oh, started this before the posts above.


If you were that close, then maybe you're in my picture. Because when I get around to posting the answer to this quiz, I'll post an accompanying picture that includes Erhardt's sign as well as fans storming the field in front of the Reds dugout.


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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
I should know this because I was there and he wasn't that far from me in game 5, after I snuck down to box. But I don't recall seeing him.

Was it about The Big Red Machine?


OE: Oh, started this before the posts above.


If you were that close, then maybe you're in my picture. Because when I get around to posting the answer to this quiz, I'll post an accompanying picture that includes Erhardt's sign as well as fans storming the field in front of the Reds dugout.


OO,kool. I hope someday there is video discovered of the last few innings. Cause I know for sure I was shown on TV during that time.


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Zvon wrote:
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I should know this because I was there and he wasn't that far from me in game 5, after I snuck down to box. But I don't recall seeing him.

Was it about The Big Red Machine?


OE: Oh, started this before the posts above.


If you were that close, then maybe you're in my picture. Because when I get around to posting the answer to this quiz, I'll post an accompanying picture that includes Erhardt's sign as well as fans storming the field in front of the Reds dugout.


OO,kool. I hope someday there is video discovered of the last few innings. Cause I know for sure I was shown on TV during that time.


Let me take a look at my picture. Do you remember what you were wearing?


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I should know this because I was there and he wasn't that far from me in game 5, after I snuck down to box. But I don't recall seeing him.

Was it about The Big Red Machine?


OE: Oh, started this before the posts above.


If you were that close, then maybe you're in my picture. Because when I get around to posting the answer to this quiz, I'll post an accompanying picture that includes Erhardt's sign as well as fans storming the field in front of the Reds dugout.


OO,kool. I hope someday there is video discovered of the last few innings. Cause I know for sure I was shown on TV during that time.


Let me take a look at my picture. Do you remember what you were wearing?


How did you get on the field? Did you jump onto the field from the visiting dugout roof?


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I look for myself in photos of game 5 and sometimes I think I see me. I have no real recollection of what I wore, only of the way I usually dressed at that age. At the very end I was almost parallel with 3rd base, in the makeshift extended wooden box section. I initially went toward 3rd base, shifted down the line to home plate and then ran to the mound. On the TV broadcast you can see me in the Reds dugout much earlier during the delay of game when the wooden partitions collapsed and fans spilt out on to the field.

I pointed myself out in a photo of the field celebration before, but I no longer think that was me, although I do believe I am seen in that photograph. Knowing the route I took as I ran on the field I was able to take a better guess. But I still can't say with any certainty that it's me.


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The photo I'll post at the end of this quiz looks like it was taken from around the Mets on deck circle pointing towards the Reds dugout. Most of the foreground is the front of the portion of the Reds dugout that's closer to home plate rather than third base. The fans already on the field aren't too densely packed in yet, so it appears that the photo was shot right after, or even right before, the last out was officially recorded.


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Looking forward to seeing it.

Talk about rare photos from 1973, I ran into this just today. I had never seen this photo before! I love when that happens.
I'd love to get my hands on a hi-rez version of this.



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Zvon wrote:



Who's the guy in the Mets dugout standing -- lined up in the photo behind a crouching Mays -- with the glasses with the plastic looking frames?

I can't think of anybody on the '73 WS roster who even remotely looks like that Met.


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Spike Lee was everywhere, even back then.


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Could be a batboy? Looks like he's on the field.


That makes sense.


I'll bet anything that the Met directly behind was extremely pissed that his view of the play was totally blocked by the bat boy.


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