Summer of '69: Amazin' Mets
Relive the glory days with the team that shocked the city.
Relive the glory days with the team that shocked the city and Major League Baseball.
Photo credit: Getty/Blank Archives | Team portrait of the 1969 New York Mets baseball team, 1969. The portrait, from a fan giveaway postcard, features, from left, front row; Gus Mauch, Joe Pignatano, Yogi Berra, Eddie Yost, Wes Stock, and Joe Deer; second row, Duffy Dyer, Cleon Jones, Gary Gentry, Bud Harrelson, Ed Charles, Gil Hodges, Jerry Grote, Ken Boswell, Al Jackson, Mike Jorgensen, Barry Raziano, and Jack Tracy; third row, Kevin Collins, Ron Swoboda, Tommie Campbell, Al Weis, Dick Rusteck, Cal Koonce, Tommie Agee, Steve Chilcott, Rod Gaspar, Amos Otis, Wayne Garrett, and Jim McAndrew; fourth row, Nick Torman, Lou Niss, Bob Hendley, Ron Taylor, Leroy Stanton, Jerry Koosman, Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Art Shamsky, Teodoro Martinez, Chico Diaz, and Bobby Sanchez; top row, Don Cardwell, Les Rohr, Jim Bibby, Steven Renko, Jon Matlack, J. C. Martin, Ken Singleton. (Photo by Blank Archives/Getty Images)
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