Tag: Mets
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Jun 01 2021
Off-Topic: Nine Years Ago on June 1: A New York Met Memory
It is June 1st so its time to relive this unforgettable Met Memory.
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Apr 12 2021
Mystery Fotos #15 Solved: W.C. Fields in an American Underslung in 1909
Kelly Williams challenged you to identify these two Mystery Fotos taken during the same photo shoot.
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Sep 08 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: My Personal Tribute to Tom Seaver
From a 13 year old in 1969 to today, Tom Seaver and the NY Mets would always be special to me. Hope, being the underdog, perseverance epitomized the NY Mets and their fans in those early years. I feel it only fitting that Kleiner's Korner devote this brief post to Tom Seaver, may he rest in peace. Another baseball great of Seaver's era, Lou Brock also just passed - may he also rest in peace.
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Sep 28 2019
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Four 1948 Tucker “News Bulletins”
These four never-before-published Tucker "News Bulletins" were likely PR flyers from the Tucker Corporation printed prior to the planned 1948 launch.
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Aug 07 2019
Malverne Treasure #4: Survey of the Meadowbrook Lodge in Westbury (January 1938)
Over 200 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints, documents and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement in February 2017 are being categorized, repaired and scanned. This January 1938 Motor Parkway survey documented the Meadowbrook Lodge, four months before the road and the lodge were closed.
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Apr 06 2019
Joe Tracy at the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton
While in his late 70s and early 80s, veteran Vanderbilt Cup Race driver Joe Tracy worked for Henry Austin Clark, Jr. at the Long Island Automotive Museum. Thanks to Walter McCarthy, several images and a video of Tracy at the museum have survived.
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Mar 30 2018
Off-Topic: Highlights from the Mets’ 2018 Opening Day
SNY-TV captured me several times yesterday waving my Met flag at the exciting 2018 Mets' Opening Day.
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Jan 20 2018
Video of the Week: Celebrating the 1969 New York Mets World Championship Team
On August 22, 2009, the New York Mets celebrated the 1969 World Championship team on their 40th anniversary. Check out the person waving the Mets flag at the 11 second mark. That's me!
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Apr 03 2017
Mystery Foto #13 Solved: The Record-Breaking Run from Chicago to New York in October 1904
Bruce Duffie forwarded this weekend's Mystery Foto featuring his grandfather Lawrence Duffie.
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May 16 2016
The Natural & Mystery Foto #20 Solved:#18 Mercedes and #6 Isotta During the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Chuck Rudy, Jr., challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
