What baseball fan wouldn’t want to be romanced? This is the “romance” of baseball, says Murph. Why not? They were in the World Series, every bit as much as the ’69 Mets and ’55 Dodgers and ’54 Giants and far too many Yankees. The Boston Braves of 1948 are represented. And - hold on to your hats - there are Yankees galore at Shea because, let’s face it, their team was in a few World Series, but though there’s a discernible New York accent to the festivities, this isn’t all Gotham all the time.
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There are several Brooklyn Dodgers and a couple of New York Giants of note on hand, but it isn’t necessarily a toast to their Subway Series feats. No real reason, except that nothing’s bigger than the World Series, so why wouldn’t you choose that as your theme? As WOR-TV anchor Bob Murphy explains, the Mets could make their claim to World Series lore, having been in two of them, but this isn’t really a Metscentric event. The theme of Old Timers Day 1977 is Memorable Moments from World Series Play. Let’s be as cool as Duke Silver as we prepare to meet Duke Snider.
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Let’s stick to our warm bathtub full of Old Timers jazz.
Do they still teach history in the schools? They do a damn poor job of it at Citi Field, but that’s another story. That’s what keeps you coming back for more, poising you to turn the page (or keep scrolling) in order to learn what happens next in our great shared chronicle. We would always be interested in the baseball to come because we were immersed in the baseball that had come. We put together the glimpse of the past to which we were being treated with all we could glean from the present occurring in our midst and it laid a foundation for our future. We were introduced to players and stories and accomplishments and it became part of what we knew about the game we had come to love.
If they could make some more on the field, more power to us. It was the Mets’ solemn responsibility to deliver baseball history to their patrons. I’m talking that everybody who set foot inside Shea Stadium for a Mets game was presumed to maintain an interest in baseball - all of it, including the parts that didn’t unfold in front of their eyes. I’m not even talking about the Giants and the Dodgers. Their roots? They never forgot their fans’ roots. The Mets were born in black & white, determined to live in color, yet never forgetting their roots. It was in their bones, their DNA, their mission that they chose to accept.
Do the math, as they used to say in schools before math was eliminated: the Mets never didn’t hold Old Timers Day. In 1977, the Mets hosted their sixteenth annual Old Timers Day. This was the sixteenth year there were New York Mets. Before that, it happened at the Polo Grounds. That’s what used to happen every year at Shea Stadium. They showed up to celebrate Old Timers Day. Everybody was leaving Shea Stadium alone by July of 1977.Īnd yet, on this Saturday, an actual crowd, shed of animus, pitchforks and torches (it was too hot for torches and the lights were working again), showed up at Shea to celebrate something. Also, it was three - three! - days since all of New York City had been blacked out and a good bit of it had been looted. The Mets traded Tom Seaver and Dave Kingman and there was no reason to keep living. It has been 31 days since the New York Mets traded, for reasons that aren’t worth getting into on an occasion as festive as Old Timers Day 1977 Video Found Day, their best pitcher and their best slugger in exchange for…it doesn’t matter. Let’s back up and bring you to July 16, 1977, a sweltering Saturday afternoon in the Baked Apple. From WOR to WAR: Statistical Proof Bearing Out My Assertion That the YouTube Video I Found Is the Greatest Thing Ever. I’ll create binders and hand them out to each and every one of you just as Leslie Knope would. Yes, Old Timers Day 1977! Do I have to explain the exclamation point to you? Because I will.
Live (on tape) from the crown jewel of the New York City Parks Department and stunningly preserved for the ages, I fell into the Channel 9 telecast of Old Timers Day 1977 at Shea Stadium, perhaps the best Old Timers Day Shea Stadium ever hosted. The effect was more invigorating, even, than finding safe haven in a warm bathtub full of Duke Silver’s jazz. Yet within twelve hours of viewing, I found something even better to watch. I consider the series finale of Parks & Recreation, which aired Tuesday night, to be one of the finest farewells in the history of episodic television.
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