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Return of the Prodigal Mets: Doc Gets His Due, as Darryl Waits in the Wings

The incandescent ’80s rookies burned out, but not before winning the Series in two different boroughs. 

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Village Voice article about how the 2023 Mets resembled the 1972 Mets, another terrible team, one which was chronicled by poet Joel Oppenheimer.

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The 2023 Mets: Another ‘Wrong Season’

Delving into Voice history, we find Joel Oppenheimer lamenting about another lousy Mets squad, half a century ago.

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Village Voice article about 2023's interleague Subway Series between the Yankees and the Mets.

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Sizing Up a Not-Quite-Meaningless Subway Series

Did Mets-Yanks interleague play ever matter? 

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Image from a Village Voice article about the 1973 "Ya Gotta Believe" Mets team.

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‘Ya Gotta Believe,’ Revisited

From the depths of despair to the height of elation and back, the 1973 Mets took the “Flushing Faithful” on the kind of roller-coaster ride that is looking all too familiar.  

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NEW YORK

Jackie Robinson’s Enduring Legacy Gets a New Home

A new museum in NYC honors the athlete who changed baseball and propelled America’s civil rights movement.

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Joy in Metville

Buck and the Mets get the larger bite of the Big Apple in the first round of the Subway Series at Citi Field.

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The Buck Stops Here, Again

An Orioles fan looks at the Mets’ new “old school” skipper, Buck Showalter

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