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1987 New York Mets Signed Team Baseball

Here are some pictures of a baseball I came into possession of.  When you find a signed baseball from the 1980s, you pretty much always expect it to be the ’86 World Series team, especially when the first two names that jump out at you are Rafael Santana and Wally Backman.

But then I saw Kevin McReynolds who didn’t arrive until 1987.  Santana departed after the 1987 season, so that was the only year they played together and therefore the only year the ball can be from.  So there it is, a New York Mets team signed baseball from 1987.

And yes, this baseball was apparently purchased at Sea World.

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Random Mets Stuff From 2003

I pulled some random Mets stuff out of the attic. Mostly magazines and ticket stubs and such.

Here’s a stub from 2002.  713B was just to the first base side of home plate.  Box B, seat 8 means we were technically the 4th row from the front.  There was probably an annoying red bar in our line of sight as well.   I don’t remember much of the game, but I went to retrosheet.org and learned that the Mets lost 9-8.  Rollins was 2/5 with a walk, that bum.  Jeff D’Amico  took the loss to fall to 4-8.

Here’s an interview with David Weathers that was printed in Volume 42, Issue 3 of Mets Magazine in 2003.  Brilliant stuff, like how he came to wear the number 35! (Marcel Lachemann had 53) I always kind of liked Weathers; I tend to like players who have names that are also things, like Weathers, Cook, or Strawberry.  I like how they show Weathers in both a black uniform, and a pinstriped one with a blue cap.  Appeal to the Shannon Shark‘s of the world, and “Generation Piazza”.