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Lefty Specialist wrote: I'm waiting for her to say, "Daddy, why are YOU credentialed?" hilarious

Here you go.....as an aside, they have changed their subscriptions, my digital subscription was for online(any device, but not kindle/ipad), the chrome app but not the android app............that has changed as of yesterday....my subscription covers them all now(not sure about ipad as I do not have one) Shea Stadium and the World�s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in April 1964, reason enough for Major League Baseball to stage its All-Star Game in Queens. By July 7, the day of the midseason classic, which was played on a sunny afternoon, the Mets had lost 58 games on their way to losing 109. The Mets are finally hosting the All-Star Game again, at Citi Field on Tuesday. Once again, the Mets aren�t very good, although 109 losses would seem beyond their reach. A half-century from now, fans may talk about the Hall of Famers on the current National and American League rosters, a group that includes Miguel Cabrera, Robinson Cano, Joey Votto and David Wright. The oldest player is Mariano Rivera, 43; the youngest is Bryce Harper, 20. The 1964 All-Star squads had 18 eventual Hall of Famers, 12 from the National League. Both teams were so loaded that Sandy Koufax and Whitey Ford never got to throw a pitch, but they did guard the ball bags during batting practice. Bill Mazeroski and Ron Santo didn�t get to play, either. Hank Aaron was a mere ninth-inning pinch-hitter for Ron Hunt, a starter at second base who was the lone Mets All-Star. Casey Stengel, the Mets� irrepressible manager, coached first base for the National League. He looked at the lineup card before the game and said: �Look at them extry men. Aaron, White, Koufax, Bunning. This lineup is so good that my best hitter, Ron Hunt, is batting eighth.� The starting pitchers were from the two Los Angeles teams: Don Drysdale of the Dodgers and Dean Chance of the Angels. The N.L. manager was the Dodgers� Walter Alston; Al Lopez of the Chicago White Sox managed the A.L. team The game drew an announced crowd of 50,850, the largest for an All-Star Game since 1959 but a few thousand short of a sellout. The National League won, 7-4, on a three-run, game-ending home run by the Philadelphia Phillies� Johnny Callison. A portrait of the game was derived from interviews with some of the All-Stars. DICK GROAT N.L. starting shortstop I liked Shea Stadium. I just loved New York City. I broke in at the Polo Grounds, where I got my first major league hit. I even met my wife at the Polo Grounds. DEAN CHANCE My parents drove out to the game from Ohio, and my friends were there. I can�t say that Shea stood out from anywhere else, but it was the first time I�d ever seen it. RON HUNT The big thing was that my grandpa and my mom had a chance to fly in. I come from a split home, and Grandpa and Mom raised me in the alleys of St. Louis, and he taught me how to play ball, hit a ball, and how to play bottle caps. JOE PEPITONE A.L. reserve first baseman It was new, and any new ballpark for the first time is special. It was exciting. The fences were deep. It had more of a coliseum look. BILL WHITE N.L. reserve first baseman We didn�t like the American League. The National League always felt it had better players. We thought we were more competitive. JOE TORRE N.L. starting catcher There�s so much more fanfare now. When we walked into the clubhouse, you looked up and you had medical tape above everybody�s locker with your name on it. PEPITONE It was a totally different game then. Now it�s more of a comedy. Kids out there laughing. We wanted to beat the other team and beat them bad. You saw Rose slide full blast into Fosse in an All-Star Game. Today, a guy slides and the other guy helps him up. If I did that, Ralph Houk would have grabbed me by the eyeballs. TORRE I was going over the signs with Drysdale, and here I am, 23, not yet 24, and I�m asking him what he wants to use for signs. And he said, �Just fastball, curve and breaking ball.� I said, �What�s your sign for your spitball?� and he said, �I�ll just throw it off the fastball.� Being dumb, I said yes, and he threw that wet fastball three or four times past me. JIM FREGOSI A.L. starting shortstop Dean really wanted to start. He got knocked out early the Sunday before in Boston so he could start in the All-Star Game. That was the contention of many of us at the time. The American League jumped to a 1-0 lead against Drysdale in the first inning when Harmon Killebrew singled in Fregosi, who led off the inning with a single and advanced to second on a passed ball by Torre � perhaps one of Drysdale�s spitters. Chance began what became an easy three-inning stint � two hits, no runs, two strikeouts � with the leadoff hitter Roberto Clemente. CHANCE I had two strikes on Clemente and tried to throw a slider. It hung up by his eyes and he went off his feet, and he struck out. It was totally luck. Next hitter was Dick Groat, and I struck him out. The only two guys I struck out. HUNT Chance was just another pitcher to me. I hit a 3-1 slider over the shortstop�s head for a single. In the fourth inning, Lopez replaced Chance with Kansas City Athletics reliever John Wyatt. Billy Williams greeted him with a home run. Three batters later, Ken Boyer made it 2-1 with another home run. CHANCE John was a funny guy. He threw a spitball. If he came into a city after us, I�d leave a tube of Vaseline for him. After the game, he said, �Man, they had enough ash in that dugout to build a house with it.� He also said that Williams was squeezing the bat so hard smoke was coming out of it. The National League added to its lead with a run in the fifth, but Brooks Robinson�s two-run triple in the sixth and Fregosi�s sacrifice fly in the seventh gave the A.L. a 4-3 lead. That led to a dramatic bottom of the ninth. Dick Radatz, the 6-foot-6-inch Boston Red Sox pitcher nicknamed the Monster, was in his third inning of relief, two days after winning his seventh game of the season with three innings to close out a game against the Angels. PEPITONE Monster? We called him a lot of things. CHANCE He would come down sidearm, and the damned ball rose three or four feet. TORRE He was just an imposing figure, so big and so wide. Radatz walked Willie Mays to start the inning. CHANCE When Willie was on first, Mickey Mantle was shouting, �Hey, watch him, watch him, he could steal second.� Mays did steal second. Orlando Cepeda followed with a bloop single that fell between Pepitone and right fielder Rocky Colavito. Mays tied the score when Pepitone�s throw home bounced over catcher Elston Howard. PEPITONE Yeah, I remember that. I remember lots of things. Believe me, I tried to get the guy out. Curt Flood pinch-ran for Cepeda, and Radatz intentionally walked catcher Johnny Edwards. JOHNNY EDWARDS I had faced Dick in college, and boy, he blew me away that time. I was a low-ball hitter, and I thought I could get to him. So I was surprised when he intentionally walked me. I wanted to hit. Aaron came up next to pinch-hit for Hunt. Aaron said he was not hurt, but Callison said after the game that Aaron had been ill. HANK AARON You�d have to ask Walter Alston why I didn�t get in earlier. I wanted to do whatever he asked. ... I had never faced Radatz. But he was someone to be reckoned with. I knew he threw hard. I�m sure he got me out on a fastball. That brought up Callison, who was a very good fastball hitter. Radatz was a very good fastball pitcher. It was strength against strength. RADATZ from an Associated Press article I threw him a low fastball in the seventh inning, and he hit it pretty good. So I thought I�d try him up high. CALLISON who died in 2006, from The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. He really hummed them past Hank. I also remember how hard he threw in the seventh. So I decided to switch to a lighter bat. I borrowed one from Billy Williams. TORRE I was already out of the game. I got showered and dressed and was in the runway peeking out. You couldn�t sit on the bench in your street clothes. On Radatz�s first pitch, Callison hit a three-run home run that landed in the second deck of right field. CHANCE I�ll tell you, guys didn�t walk off our bench smiling. They weren�t too happy for Johnny. CALLISON from The Morning Call Every day someone tells me about it. Good thing, too, because at my age, I�m having trouble remembering what happened. Callison believed that his home run was a positive omen for the Phillies � that 1964 would be their year. He had reason to be confident. A few weeks earlier at Shea Stadium, his teammate Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game against the Mets on Father�s Day. But on Sept. 21, the Phillies embarked on a 10-game losing streak and blew their six-and-a-half-game lead with just a dozen games left. It was one of the worst collapses in baseball history and allowed the St. Louis Cardinals to win the pennant and go on to beat the Yankees in the World Series. Whichever league wins Tuesday�s All-Star Game will have home-field advantage in the World Series, but that�s not necessarily an omen, either.

His three year old said "Daddy, what�s that boy credentialed for", credentialed????

saw this last night, great commercial.....

Ceetar wrote: you know what's never asked when people repost these Bonilla stories year after year? If the Wilpons do file for bankruptcy (or the Mets do) do they still owe him? I remember reading an article from before where BB was very worried that with the Madoff thing would the Mets be able to pay him, his money person assured him that yes he wold get his money.....but to the bankruptcy, that's an interesting question, sure he worries about that too......Sterling is doing great so he's safe I guess.

No wonder his daughter goes to the Sorbonne.

G-Fafif wrote: Our favorite local reporter, News 12 Long Island's Erin Colton, on assignment at Citi Field, supporting my contention that all journalists should wear their Harv on their sleeves. (A little investigative reporting indicates Erin is not really an MLBS, but if the jersey fits, there should be few snits.) damn, betting she has a nicer ass than Harvey.......

Cos he's wearing a very non jock sweater.....

That's a great shot Ceetar......

Chaos as the 7 train is not running, God, I would hate to be stuck in that mess.

absolutely loved this when I saw it earlier. Harvey would have a career in TV, no doubt about it.

The Home Run Derby is starting to drag on just a little bit, rooting for a good final round.

Frayed Knot wrote: There's no sport/activity that Chris Berman can't make worse simply by his presence. agree, although he does seem to have mellowed out quite a lot.

Davis his bombs without even swinging hard it seems, crazy.

Kinda feel for Alverez having to follow that.

#15 looked so easy and he smashed it.

Cespedes is putting on a show. Gotta say, City Field looks beautiful in the setting sun.

Keith often harps on about "clutch", which surprises me and it shouldn't.

Great thread, some good reading in here.

Great for Harvey , Bochy is on the money here, and I like that there is no controvesy about who starts yyybbb....

Davis.....

I had expected a bigger crowd? , of course with so many people not in their seats and instead walking around it is not always easy to tell. met with Metfairy and hubby which was nice.....took another friend(Mets fan) on his maiden CF trip.....loved it tried the Pat LaFrieda's Steak Sandwich, liked it a lot.

Hat a fun time at the game. Saw a tweet last night from Megdal that tix could be got for as little as $6 on stub hub, I decided then that lorcan and I would go. Called a friend and I got 3 tix for $21. Went to print them before we left only to discover our printer was not hooked up, I tried to install drivers but was having trouble so I just left for the game with proof on the stub hub app and my Gmail that I bought the tix. The Mets ticket office wouldn't re-print for me even though I showed the guy the proof along with my ID. I pointed out that stub hub is an official MLB partner. ... guy would not budge and we ended up walking all the way down Roosevelt Avenue to find a hotel so I can access my email and print tickets. maybe I was naive in thinking the ticket office could help me, so just for future reference keep that in mind.

Per Mike Puma Was told Valdespin had a confrontation with Terry Collins and called the manager a "c - - ksucker" and demanded to be placed on the DL. Not winning friends is he?

Taking Lorcan and a friend to the Futures Game tomorrow instead of the Javits Center....3 tickets for $21, hard to beat, some future Mets greats starting?, priceless. section 534