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Casey Stengel- The Mets Years: In 1961 after Casey Stengel had been fired, he  turned down several managerial jobs, the Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants & Los Angeles Angels, all wanted him. Instead, he went to work for Glendale Valley Bank, in Glendale, California which was owned by his wife's family.  His old friend, George Weiss  was now working as General Manager for the expansion New York Mets. Originally Stengel did not to manage an expansion team, because the rules of the expansion draft guaranteed the team would not be a competitive team. Weiss e ventually convinced his old friend  to return to baseball & take the job as the Mets first Manager.  Right away he began talking in what was known as his famous "Stengelese". During the expansion draft when the Mets first pick was an unknown catcher named Hobie Landrith.  Casey said, said, "You have to have a catcher, or you'll have a lot of passed balls".  On October 2...

 Tuesday July 26th, 2022:  A big crowd of 42,364 came out to Citi Field to see the latest version of the regular season subway series. This is the 25th season of the semiannual event that has certainly lost some of its fanfare from its early days. Instead of three game series on weekends, the series is now held on weeknights & is just two games at each park. This year did have some excitement going into it as both teams were in first place in their divisions. It was the first time both teams entered the subway series in first place.  Tonight, Buck Showalter's Mets (60-37) hosted Aaron Boone's AL New York team (66-32). The Mets Taijuan Walker (7-2) went up against Jordan Montgomery (3-2) In the top of the 1st, the fireworks began immediately, with one out Aaron Judge hit his league leading 38th HR. Anthony Rizzo followed with his 23rd HR of the season as they went back-to-back for a 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the 1st the Mets answered, with one out, Starling Marte...

Tuesday July 27th , 1971 :   On this warm summer evening, the Mets (52-47) hosted Red Schoendienst's St. Louis Cardinals (55-48) in front of 35,597 fans at Shea Stadium.  Tonight, Tom Seaver (4-2) took the mound against Chris Zachary (3-6).   In 1971 Seaver would win twenty games (20-10) lead the NL in ERA 1.76 & strike outs with a career high 289. Chris Zachary would go 3-10  with a 5.32 ERA spending time between AAA & St. Louis. Trivia : Red Schoendienst would manage the Cardinals for 14 years going 1041 -955, winning two pennants. In 1971 his Cardinals won 90 games finishing second to the eventual World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL East by seven games. In the top of the 3rd, St. Louis pitcher Chris Zachary led off with a base hit. He advanced on Lou Brock's ground out. Then Matty Alou singled, bringing in Zachary for the Cards first run.  In the 4th,  Seaver struck out  the 1971 NL MVP  Joe Torre. The  St. Louis ...

T ylor J. Megill was born July 28th, 1995, in Long Beach, California. Family Trivia: His parents Julie & Kevin Megill added the "or" at the end of his name to match the "or" in his brother Trevor's name. The six foot seven, right hander graduated from Los Alamitos High School. In high school he played baseball & water polo. Tyler first attended Loyola Marymount, Cypress College before moving on to pitch at the University of Arizona.  He pitched his junior & senior years for the Wild Cats, going 3-6 with a 5.14 ERA in that time. He was selected in the eighth round of the 2018 draft by the New York Mets. He started out with the Brooklyn Cyclones going 1-2 with a 3.21 ERA as a relief pitcher. In 2019 he was at St. Lucie getting promoted to AA Binghamton. In that time, he struck out 92 batters in 71 innings of work.  After the cancelled Covid 19 season, he began 2021 at AA Binghamton, as a starter. He went 2-1 with a 3.12 ERA, striking out 42 batters ...