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Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Nov 2 18:46:02 2026

Former Met great Jerry Koosman has died. Those of us who are old enough to remember him, as I am, know that he pitched a complete game in Game 5 to wrap up the '69 World Series. He and Tom Seaver came to be known as the Tom and Jerry Show that year.

And in an ironic twist, he was traded to the Twins for Jesse Orosco, who saved Game 7 of the '86 Series.

Those os us who rode on the 7 to see him pitch certainly won't forget his accomplishments.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Easy on Mon Nov 2 21:29:25 2026, in response to Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Nov 2 18:46:02 2026.

RIP. I remember watching him on tv but can't recall if I saw him live.

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Posted by trains61 on Mon Nov 2 23:00:19 2026, in response to Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Nov 2 18:46:02 2026.

RIP. So many people we watched as kids are departing.

The Lurkers'Guild
Giants,Knicks,and Mets fan.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by gbs on Mon Nov 2 23:14:12 2026, in response to Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Nov 2 18:46:02 2026.

Koosman pitching the final three outs, then being mobbed

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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Nov 3 04:41:01 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by gbs on Mon Nov 2 23:14:12 2026.

I remember that as though it were yesterday.

How many of those guys are still with us?

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Posted by murray1575 on Tue Nov 3 17:13:24 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by gbs on Mon Nov 2 23:14:12 2026.

I rode the 7 local on the way home that day (10/16/69) and everyone was happy when the conductor announced the Willets Point/Shea Stadium stop as the home of the world champion Mets.

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Nov 3 19:32:38 2026, in response to Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Nov 2 18:46:02 2026.

To me, "Mets" is the baseball team while "Met" is the NY Metropolitan Opera.

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 3 22:42:57 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Nov 3 19:32:38 2026.

What would you call a single member of the NY Mets baseball team?

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by gbs on Wed Nov 4 00:27:47 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 3 22:42:57 2026.


What do you call a single member of the Red Sox? The Miami Heat? The Utah Jazz?

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Nov 4 00:29:32 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Nov 3 22:42:57 2026.

A member of the Mets.

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Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Nov 4 00:32:01 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by gbs on Wed Nov 4 00:27:47 2026.

I've never heard of a Red Sok, myself.

As for the Jazz, would they have to be named for whatever instrument might be played in a jazz orchestra such as Dizzy Gillespie's big band?

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Nov 4 04:26:49 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Nov 3 04:41:01 2026.

Nolan Ryan is still alive, isn't he? IINM Ron Swoboda and Art Shamsky are still with us as well.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Wed Nov 4 06:02:35 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by murray1575 on Tue Nov 3 17:13:24 2026.



There are certain events that you will always remember. For my mother there was the explosion of the Hindenburg and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Many here remember what they were doing when we heard that President Kennedy was assassinated or when 9-11 happened.

Of course all New Yorkers know where they were when the Mets won the World Series in 1969. I was on Vanderbilt Avenue at 45th Street and all of a sudden the air was filled with ticket tape and confetti. Everyone was cheering and hugging each other. The World Series Trophy had finally come back to where it belonged. Unknown to me at the time there was a having the same experience a few blocks away on 42nd Street. Three year later I would meet this girl. We have now been married 54 years.

Larry, RedbirdR33

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Posted by zac on Wed Nov 4 21:45:02 2026, in response to Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Nov 2 18:46:02 2026.

I was there at Game 5!

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by cortelyounext on Thu Nov 5 10:28:26 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Nov 3 19:32:38 2026.

To me, "Mets" is the baseball team while "Met" is the NY Metropolitan Opera.

That would be an inaccurate statement.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Nov 5 14:43:19 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Nov 3 19:32:38 2026.

No, the OP is correct. A sad day for fans of the Metropolitan Opera (or Metropolitan Museum of Art) would be a "Sad day for fans of the Met."

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Nov 5 18:41:16 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by cortelyounext on Thu Nov 5 10:28:26 2026.

Back when the Mets were just getting started, they opened a ticket outlet in Manhattan that said, "Mets' ticket office," and more often than not, someone would come in and ask for seats for La Boheme or some other opera. In those days, the Old Met was still around, at Broadway and 39th St., and patrons had to be redirected a few blocks away.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Nov 6 21:13:32 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Wed Nov 4 04:26:49 2026.

I think there are 14 guys left from the 1969 Mets.

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Re: Sad day for Mets fans

Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Nov 6 21:59:05 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Mets fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Nov 5 18:41:16 2026.

Knew I wasn't the only one.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Nov 7 09:26:44 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Nov 6 21:13:32 2026.

Let's see how close I am; I came up with 12:

Nolan Ryan, Gary Gentry, Duffy Dyer, J. C. Martin, Al Weis, Wayne Garrett, Ken Boswell, Bobby Pfeil, Cleon Jones, Art Shamsky, Ron Swoboda and Rod Gaspar. I remember all their uniform numbers, so it was juat a matter of going down the list.

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Mitch45 on Sun Nov 8 11:12:05 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Nov 7 09:26:44 2026.

Uni numbers that I can recall:

Ryan - 30
Gentry - ?
Dyer - 10
Martin - 9
Weis - ?
Garrett - 11
Boswell - 12
Pfeil - ?
Jones - 21
Shamsky - 6 (I think)
Swoboda - 4
Gaspar - ?

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Nov 8 12:48:20 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by Mitch45 on Sun Nov 8 11:12:05 2026.

Pfeil - 1
Swoboda - 4
Weis - 6
Martin - 9
Dyer - 10
Garrett - 11
Boswell - 12
Gaspar - 17
Jones - 21
Shamsky - 24
Ryan - 30
Gentry - 39

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Re: Sad day for Met fans

Posted by Wallyhorse on Mon Nov 9 08:57:48 2026, in response to Re: Sad day for Met fans, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Nov 7 09:26:44 2026.

What is odd about Jones and Weis was three years earlier on Sept. 22, 1966, they were with the White Sox who were at Yankee Stadium, playing the Yankees in a game that drew just 417 fans, fifth smallest crowd in MLB history and the smallest ever in any incarnation of Yankee Stadium. That is the game many believe caused legendary play-by-play voice Red Barber not to have his contract renewed by the Yankees (including by Barber himself).

That game was a ONE game series originally scheduled for two days earlier but postponed twice by rain as the other two games of that series were moved up to a standalone doubleheader that July 4 because they teams the White Sox and Yankees were originally scheduled to play that July 4, the then-Senators and Red Sox respectively played at Fenway what was originally supposed to be their season-ending two-game series that Oct. 1-2 but had to be moved because the then-Boston Patriots, then playing home games at Fenway I believe at the behest of the city of Boston apparently kicked them out due to home games that Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 and not wanting the Red Sox to play any home games there once the Pats home schedule began.

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