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Truly Back in the Day

by on 16 October 2007 1:21 pm

“[I]n the steep streets of Manhattan across the river,” Joe Durso wrote in Amazing: The Miracle of the Mets, “computer cards and ticker tape rained from office windows while people danced on the sidewalks below. The Mets were the champions of the world on October 16, 1969.”In broad daylight, no less.
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4 comments to Truly Back in the Day

  • Anonymous
    October 16th, 2007 at 5:09 pm

    From The Sporting News:
    “Shea Stadium was not the only scene of wild rejoicing in New York. Veteran observers of Gotham celebrations said they'd never seen anything to top this one, including the return of Charles A. Lindbergh after his New York-to-Paris flight in 1927, V-J Day in 1945 and the welcome for the Astronauts in 1969. In baseball's first 100 years, there was nothing to compare with the spectacular rise of the Mets.”

  • Anonymous
    October 18th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    You're right Greg,
    It was so far removed from what anybody expected that a parade before or since has never been matched. Also, never before had fans dugup sod for souvineers, which left Shea's turf looking like craters of the moon.

  • Anonymous
    October 18th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Too bad for the Jets…

  • Anonymous
    October 19th, 2007 at 9:22 am

    Took my younger cousin to a Jet scrimage that November and the turf looked even worse than on television. That nothing was done was just another example of how the Mets treated the former Titans like second-rate tennants, even after they became Super Bowl champions.