I think I’m a little too happy to have finally secured a spot in Shea’s sun-drenched picnic area, don’t you? But what a vista! As the t-shirt implies, it feels like the crossroads of the civilized world out there.

(Thanks to Emily for snapping what is now my all-time favorite picture of me and my ballpark.)

The newest ballpark in the Majors doesn’t break all that much ground, but I give it props for the cherry blossoms it planted along its main concourse. Very Washingtonian without being at all political. Nicely done!

Mets fans were just happy to be anywhere after losing three in a row in Philadelphia and Chicago, but these Mets fans would be even happier hours later when their team would defeat the Nationals in Washington’s newest monument. From left to right, well, there’s me (wearing my Super Bowl Champion Giants shirt to subliminally annoy […]

One of the first Mets cards I ever had my hands on was this one, of Tommy Davis, newly acquired outfielder for 1967. By the time my familiarity with baseball and my baseball team caught up to my earliest collecting, Tommy Davis was somewhere else. He always was. In eighteen Major League seasons, he landed on […]

The New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society did what it does best last Thursday: reminisce over a departed team and chow down on Bronx pizza. Read all about it in Richard Sandomir’s column in the Times. Peering in from the right at some astoundingly great Polo Grounds footage like a kid seeking a knothole’s view of Don Mueller is […]

Reader Matt L. asked if we knew of any pictures of Polo Grounds top dog Homer the beagle. As your full-service Mets blog of choice, we scanned this one from Jack Lang’s The New York Mets: Twenty-Five Years of Baseball Magic and present it to all of Metstopotamia to enjoy. According to the caption in the book, […]

The numbers on the Faith and Fear shirt don’t go any lower than 14 for Gil Hodges, but leave it to Dave Murray to take them as far down on the map as you can without leaving the country. Our Michigan friend wore his garment of choice on a recent trip to Key West where the […]

In the middle of last season, Dave from The Gil Meche Experience was thoughtful enough to send us some shots of what you can see from the upper deck of Shea Stadium when you ascend to Row V and turn around.

“The other day me and my friend were at a game sitting in the upper deck,” Dave related. “He suggested we go way up to the top and check out the view, as Gary Cohen had recommended it at some point this season. So we did, and were amazed at the view.”

We don’t know precisely what we will see when we turn around at Citi Field. But we do know, on this final Opening Day at Shea Stadium, what Row V in reverse can get you. Like everything else about Shea, it’s something that will be succeeded, likely improved upon, but it will never quite be […]