Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry watch the season highlight video play out on DiamondVision, just like the rest of us, Sunday October 6, 1985.

Doc was 20, Darryl was 23, Shea was 21, I was 22.

Best thing I’ve seen at Shea all week.

The one and only Home Run Apple approaches its last week of regular-season active duty. That danged piece of fruit better be overripe from Mets batters successfully bobbing for dingers by the time Sunday evening rolls around.

Hit Mets. Hit. Even when you’ve got a two-run lead, hit some more. When the Apple goes up, so […]

So the Mets have lost three in a row. So the Mets have fallen into second place. So the Mets may be reduced to hoping the Brewers maintain a steeper decline than their own. So Fernando Tatis is out for the year. So Damion Easley is nowhere in sight. So John Maine probably won’t be […]

As if Newsday really had to spell it out for us.

One year ago, I was in Milwaukee where all was benign and friendly, a Mets fan on holiday casually taking in the Brewers and Pirates, more engaged by the bratwursts than the baseball. I even sampled the local beverage scene as a professional courtesy to the good folks of Wisconsin.

It’s a whole different Labor Day […]

I suppose if I grabbed enough of these and rounded up enough paste I could reconstruct a couple of original 1964-style wooden Shea Stadium seats with their contents. What is being charged for the plastic variety could sure buy a lot of salmon rolls.

This is a wrapper from a pair of chopsticks from the much praised […]

Mel Ott hit more home runs in the City of New York than any Major Leaguer in history. He slugged 511 homers in a Hall of Fame career that spanned 22 seasons, all as a New York Giant, all as a National Leaguer. The N.L. honors him to this day by bestowing on the senior […]