Tag: Mets
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Off-Topic: Nine Years Ago on June 1: A New York Met Memory
It is June 1st so its time to relive this unforgettable Met Memory.
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Mystery Fotos #15 Solved: W.C. Fields in an American Underslung in 1909
Kelly Williams challenged you to identify these two Mystery Fotos taken during the same photo shoot.
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Kleiner’s Korner: My Personal Tribute to Tom Seaver
From a 13 year old in 1969 to today, Tom Seaver and the NY Mets would always be special to me. Hope, being the underdog, perseverance epitomized the NY Mets and their fans in those early years. I feel it only fitting that Kleiner's Korner devote this brief post to…
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Four 1948 Tucker “News Bulletins”
These four never-before-published Tucker "News Bulletins" were likely PR flyers from the Tucker Corporation printed prior to the planned 1948 launch.
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Malverne Treasure #4: Survey of the Meadowbrook Lodge in Westbury (January 1938)
Over 200 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints, documents and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement in February 2017 are being categorized, repaired and scanned. This January 1938 Motor Parkway survey documented the Meadowbrook Lodge, four months before the road and the lodge were closed.
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Joe Tracy at the Long Island Automotive Museum in Southampton
While in his late 70s and early 80s, veteran Vanderbilt Cup Race driver Joe Tracy worked for Henry Austin Clark, Jr. at the Long Island Automotive Museum. Thanks to Walter McCarthy, several images and a video of Tracy at the museum have survived.
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Off-Topic: Highlights from the Mets’ 2018 Opening Day
SNY-TV captured me several times yesterday waving my Met flag at the exciting 2018 Mets' Opening Day.
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Video of the Week: Celebrating the 1969 New York Mets World Championship Team
On August 22, 2009, the New York Mets celebrated the 1969 World Championship team on their 40th anniversary. Check out the person waving the Mets flag at the 11 second mark. That's me!
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Mystery Foto #13 Solved: The Record-Breaking Run from Chicago to New York in October 1904
Bruce Duffie forwarded this weekend's Mystery Foto featuring his grandfather Lawrence Duffie.
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The Natural & Mystery Foto #20 Solved:#18 Mercedes and #6 Isotta During the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Chuck Rudy, Jr., challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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