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Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here.
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Mets Yearbook: 1981
by Greg Prince on 25 August 2011 9:10 am
SNY presents Mets Yearbook: 1981 tonight at 6:30. Don’t know if it will be presented in two distinct halves with the middle third missing.
And if you get that, you don’t have to read this. Or this. But I encourage you to, anyway. It’s an off day. You’ve got the time.
Image courtesy of “Mario Mendoza…HOF lock” at Baseball-Fever.
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DVR – Set!
Thanks Greg :)
Hi Greg,
The 1981 edition has already been aired twice on SNY – I didn’t know myself until it suddenly appeared on our Cablevision guide.
It wasn’t bad at all and compared to the puff of some other editions, was pleasantly quite informative. Didn’t the one that followed focus more on the ’69 miracle squad than it did the ’82 guys – or was that a different yearbook?
Followed by a replay of the Mookie HR of Sutter game replay. Oh wait that would make too much sense. Oh well, I guess at least the 86 Padre game is better than a meaningless 5 run comeback against the Rockies in May.
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