Thanks for the memory. As a boy growing up in Central NJ, I was a Mets fan from ‘62, and endured no end of teasing from my friends about how bad “my” team was (and they were). The ‘69 season was a sweet comeuppance. Of course, like the kids they were, they all got on the bandwagon. After that loss in Game 1, I remember my teachers all saying, well, it’s gonna be four straight games. It turned out that way, it was just a different set of four games.
Thanks for the memory. As a boy growing up in Central NJ, I was a Mets fan from ‘62, and endured no end of teasing from my friends about how bad “my” team was (and they were). The ‘69 season was a sweet comeuppance. Of course, like the kids they were, they all got on the bandwagon. After that loss in Game 1, I remember my teachers all saying, well, it’s gonna be four straight games. It turned out that way, it was just a different set of four games.There is also an excellent book chronicling the Chicago Cubs' side of that thriller of a pennant race, sparing no one, not even Leo Durocher (who may have burnt out both his veterans and his bullpens when crunch time really arrived, the Mets reheated, and a couple of critical series between the two teams ended up showing the Cubs the Mets weren't kidding around after all---to say nothing of just how severely Durocher's resurrected penchant for ump-baiting ended up turning National League umpires well enough against the Cubs if the decisions were close enough): Durocher's Cubs.