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1969 Miracle Mets
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1969 Miracle Mets
Here at Old Time Baseball Photos we try to keep our baseball features to pre-1970, so the Mets, whose first season was 1962, tend to get overlooked. But 1969 was a magical season (even though as a Cub fan it pains me to say it!), so I want to thank our good friend John Quinlan for alerting me to a color photo essay on the ‘69 Mets. It was posted a couple years ago by Liz Ronk, Photo Editor of Life.com.
Also, here’s a few excerpts from the article that accompanied the post:
“The 1969 New York Mets were, in one respect, like a lot of other phenomena from that long-ago, undead decade: even people who weren’t yet born “remember” that championship team, in much the same way they “remember” Woodstock, the moon landing, MLK’s assassination, Altamont, the release of The White Album and other cultural and political touchstones of the era.
The ’69 “Amazin’ Mets” of Seaver, Clendennon, Koosman, Kranepool, Jones, Agee, Grote and the rest are part of pop-culture lore as surely as Electric Ladyland and the police riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 — not because they were the most dominant team of the age, but precisely because they weren’t. They were the Bad News Bears of the majors . . . except that, in the Mets’ case, they actually won it all in the end.
So much about the game of pro baseball has changed in the four-plus decades since these pictures were made — from the fit of the uniforms to the players’ body types to the use of extraneous batting, running and fielding gear (hardly any back then, and so much these days) — that one might almost be forgiven for thinking the photos in this gallery document an entirely different sport than the one played today.”
-Gary Livacari
Photo Credits: www.Life.com
Information: Excerpts from article by Liz Ronk. See more at: http://time.com/3879745/the-1969-new-york-mets-color-photos-of-a-legendary-team/
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.
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