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Forty years ago, Tom Seaver was nearly perfect - Michael Bamberger - SI.com
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 7/9/2009
Forty years ago, Tom Seaver was nearly perfect - Michael Bamberger - SI.com
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If you happened to be thumbing through the Newsday sports section on Thursday, you may have noticed an unusual box score: Mets 4, Cubs 0, in New York. Time of game: 2 hours, 2 minutes. Then you read the not-so-fine print: the game -- a Tom Seaver one-hitter -- was played 40 years ago, when the ...
Born Again
faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 7/10/2009
Born Again
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End , a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it ... (more) Born Again

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The Amazins
mlbnotebook.com - 7/12/2009
The Amazins
— mlbnotebook.com — To the Phillies Phaithful, the New York Metropolitans have been, are now and will always be the one team we like to see lose and lose often. When Mets 2B Luis Castillo dropped A-Rod's pop-up to hand the Yankees a walk-off win a month ago, I guarantee you most of the YouTube clicks on that play ... (more) The Amazins

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24 Hours From Suicide...A Day In The Life of a Met Fan:  40 years ago today . Do you remember Tom Seaver and his 1 hitter?

Faith and Fear in Flushing:  Born Again

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40 years ago today . Do you remember Tom Seaver and his 1 hitter?
24 Hours From Suicide...A Day In The Life of a Met Fan — ... Also SI has Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan on there latest cover. There is an article which goes over the 1 hitter by Seaver as well which you can read about here ...

Born Again
Faith and Fear in Flushing — ... The Jimmy Qualls Game received a hellacious callback from Michael Bamberger on si.com this week. Highly recommended reading here. The same can be said for the job Bamberger did in the magazine's "Where Are They Now?" cover story on the '69 Mets, which you can link to ...

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