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That's wonderful stuff. By the way, I can watch both game three and game five of the 1969 World series at mlb.com website. They have lots of other classic games in their archive, including games from the Brooklyn Dodgers/New York Yankees 1952 series, game 6 of the 1975 series, game 6 of the 1986 series, game 1 of the 1988 series plus other world series and playoff games from the 60's,70's,80's,90's..2000 and 2001. I had to pay for the service. You are exactly correct Krl Ehrhardt raised his sign that said "back to your nest bird" after Robinson made out after earlier beefing about being hit by a pitch but not given first base. Robinson and Weaver beef for about five minutes. Robinson then heads into the bird lockeroom, probably because he wants everyone to think he really was hit with the pitch, before finally emerging from the dugout to resume his at bat. (One inning later comes the famous shoe polish on the baseball incident which awards Jones first base..needless to say..Earl Weaver is beside himself...next batter..Donn Clendenon hits the two run homer cutting the Bird lead to one run, 3-2.) You see it all while watching the game at mlb.com's video section. You also see Tony Kubeck in the stands finding all the luminaries to talk to during the game such as a young Joe Dimaggio and Pearl Bailey and lots of other stars.

Best on luck writing your 1962 Mets book. If you write that book like you post here in this thread it will be chock full with wonderful incites and stories and I'm sure it will get published and become a best seller!

I bet you know what Marv Thrownberry's middle initial was.. I don't know if it was Casey Stengell or Joan Payson who said it but somebody said Marv was born to be a Met!

Unfortunatley, I have no memories of the original 1962 Mets. I'm going to have to count on you to paint that picture for me. My first memory of the Mets was 1964. My dad took me to the first game ever played at Shea Stadium in April 64. I still have the program complete with Dad's scoring of the game. The cover of the program contained the words 'worlds fair' edition because the New York City Worlds Fair had also just opened in Flushing, New York. The program contained lots of information about the fair about Shea Stadium and how to travel from Shea to the Worlds fair and vice versa. That day Willie Stargell hit the first homerun ever at Shea stadium. Later that day Gil Hodges hit the first Mets homerun at Shea Stadium. The program had some other great features. It contained a story on rookie of the year Pete Rose and rookie of the year runner up Ron Hunt. I also remember the program listed all the pitchers from all the major league teams. As I looked down the list of Chicago White Sox pitchers I noticed the name D. Debuschere. I knew it had to be Dave Debuschere the future NBA hall of fame player with the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knicks.