KURODA VS LACKEY Lineup 1) Gardner CF 2) Suzuki RF 3) Cano 2B 4) Overbay 1B 5) Wells LF 6) Hafner DH 7) Nunez SS 8) Stewart C 9) Cruz 3B
Where's the game? Its not on yes & the paper says Fox but the Pirates & Reds are there. Never mind, just heard rain delay. Since when do east coast games start at 4pm? I'll bet you at 1pm it wasn't raining.
Holy shit, of the guys hitting 4 through 9 Chris Stewart has the highest BA at 243. I saw the 1st game the Mets ever played at Shea stadium near 50 years ago & I think they had a better lineup.
They went 40-120 and finished tenth and last in the National League, 60 1⁄2 games behind the NL Champion San Francisco Giants. 1962 New York Mets Opening Day Starters Richie Ashburn Gus Bell Joe Ginsberg Sherman Jones Felix Mantilla Jim Marshall Charlie Neal Frank Thomas Don Zimmer Any team that Zim and Ed Kranpool had to be good. Games played in the brackets after name that year, yoiu made a good analogy Rick C Chris Cannizzaro (56) 1B Marv Throneberry (97) 2B Charlie Neal (85) 3B Felix Mantilla (95) SS Elio Chacon (110) LF Frank Thomas (126) CF Jim Hickman (84) RF Richie Ashburn (45)
"get them next time" I am so sick of weak ground balls all over the place. Even a loud out would be welcomed at this point.
And that was the 62 Mets. I was talking about the 64 Mets. There 1st year at Shea. (1st two seasons were at the polo grounds). C - Gonder (270) 1B - Kranpool (257) 2B - Hunt (303) 3B - McMillian (211) SS - Smith (239) LF - Altman (230) RF - Hickman (257) CF - Christphor (300) Most people forget that many of the greats finished there careers with the Mets. Duke Snider, Richie Ashburn, Gil Hogers. and even our own great Yogi Berra.
I forgot that they were building Shea. Did that coincide with the Worlds Fair too. I forget, I was like 8 then. A lot of legends ended in NY. Mays in 73.
