TY so much for this, the original Mets Amazing Era! Others have uploaded this but always the updated version which added the 86-88 teams, but edited out the "celebrity" interviews along with some of the songs like "79 guys on 3rd for the Mets". This was the one I always remembered, had it on VHS forever. This covered 1962-85, it came out in 1986 but before the playoffs & WS Mets win.
Nice video of the 1962-85 New York Mets. Narrator Len Cariou mentioned that Mr. Met was the team's first mascot, but that's a little off. Technically, the team's first mascot was shown in this video;it was a basset hound named Homer, which was around the team's first two seasons and wore a "Let's Go Mets" sign. By the time the Mets moved to Shea Stadium in 1964, the dog was gone.
So this of odd as an anniversary piece. It covers 1962-85 which is only 23-years or 24-seasons, but they’re celebrating it as a 25th anniversary. Worse still is the timing. It leaves out the greatest Mets team of them all - 1986 - which would’ve been included had it been an actual 25th anniversary retrospective made in 1987.
Damn, I remember watching this on VHS at my grandparents when I was a kid, must’ve made my nana get it out 100 times. One of the things that made me a fan along with the 86 World Series highlights. Amazin!
Mets down years were 1974-1983....... And of course after this video was made 1991-96......"Even they they were down, they had the respect of their fans".... LOL Really? 1977 10th in NL attendance, 1978 10th, 1979 12th, 1980 9th, 1981 8th, 1982 9th 1983 12th......
1975-76 were fun years with decent teams. In 1983 one of the hardcore Met fans says the Tidewater team would smash them if they played (and I think they did). It was like they'd become the Yankees.
The 83 Mets were atrocious, I think for easier continuity with the video they just called the "comeback years" 1980-86 as 80 was the year the new ownership took over
It actually was 24 years but they were going by it was gonna be their 25th season. That’s the last time they did this cause every anniversary was for the years. 2012 is when they celebrated 50 years
My parents bought me the VHS tape for Christmas. I watched it twice that day. My Yankees fan brothers laughed and said that the loser Mets would never win. Ten months later, they were World Champions.
Even adjusted for inflation, tickets at Shea were not expensive. $1.50 for general admission in 1980, raised to $4.00 in 1981 and you'd get moved to Section 9 of the Mezz so the stadium would look full for the cameras. It wasn't great baseball but it was major-league and nice to be part of. Then by 1985 they were just the Yankees in Queens.
Even adjusted for inflation, many, many things were cheaper back then as compared to today. That's not an opinion, it's based in pure fact. Housing market, healthcare, you name it. Even the subway, 15 cents in the early 60's as opposed to 2.75 today. That's an increase of over 1000% in 50 years. The list can go on for days.
Grew up on the Mets in the 1970s when they had some decent teams before 1977. Went to almost every game in 1980-81 then some in 1982 a few more until 1985 then moved to Philadelphia in 1986. Best memory: anytime Seaver took the mound, they didn't stink. I did banner day in 1980!
Frank Cashen had a brain fart and left Tom Seaver off the FA compensation protection list and was claimed by the White Sox. He probably puts us in the playoffs in ‘84 and definitely in ‘85. He also doesn’t win his 300th game in a Mets uniform, a damned shame !
59:03, that was from September 85 when Hernandez's hit won a late season game and the Mets for a day went into 1st place. They would struggle the rest of the month from there and finished just behind St. louis.
What a pleasure it was to grow up in NY and witness the evolution of the 1980's Mets, culminating in their amazing win in 1986. They fought a lot--both the opposition and their own teammates. The best line ever written was when Strawberry and Hernandez exchanged punches in Spring Training in 1987. One write wrote: "That's the first time Strawberry hit the cutoff man."
Berra had a rested George Stone for game 7 and starts Matlack on two days rest. Hodges' would not have made that blunder. With a real manager in 2006 and 2016 we are probably champs also. A history of bad managers and GM's in Met's history!
@@anthonybrancale4855, I'm glad you wrote that 1 year ago. Everyone has always assumed Berra made that mistake. Seaver had stated over the years that he wanted to pitch Game 6 and he did go over Berra's head. Seaver always thought Berra was a dope. What happened though in Games 6 & 7 was the Mets didn't hit at all.
As the other commenters point out, Seaver "asked" to pitch game 6 instead of a well rested Stone--and that allowed Matlack to pitch game 7 on 3 days rest(not 2)
