So I was looking at this on Loge 13 and it made me realize that the Mets Museum and Citi Field would be a lot cooler had they not auctioned off the below items.
Stuff that might look nice in the hallways
A Double Sided Gil Hodges Banner. $2500
1999 Team Celebration Banner $500
1969 Tickertape Parade Banner $2500
Ray Knight 1986 Winning Run Banner $3500
Grand Slam Single Banner $1500
Stengel Arguing Banner $2500
Stuff that was on the press level. Sounds like cool museum fodder to me
Various “Mounted Yearbook Covers” 1962-2002 (odd) $500 to $2500.
Various “Mounted” photos (Hernandez, Rusty 1973 World Series, Mookie Game 6, Koosman-Seaver-Matlack 1976, Casey Opening Day 1962, etc…). Hey you can get up to $3500 for those.
A photo of Seaver, Kiner & Koosman? Let’s sell it.
1986 NL East celebration. Get some bucks.
Willie Mays? Oh wait he was a rival to the Dodgers. Sell it.
Mike Piazza’s famous 2001 home run? Hey we could get $1500 for that!
I could go on and on…..look at the list I know this isn’t new information, and I don’t know what sold, what didn’t, or where any of it is, but it looks to me like they had the makings of a good museum and sold it all off.
I’m taking Mets Police Junior to his first Citi Field game tomorrow. I’ll easily be able to tell him about Jackie Robinson (and that’s a good thing) but how will I explain who Tom Seaver was? “He was really good?”
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I saw some of the stuff that was for sale (and may still be) back in January. Some of it just looked plain old disgusting. If I trusted the Mets right now, I’d like to think that they commissioned new yearbook covers to replace the old ones. If the stuff wasn’t over-priced, I might have opened a tiny Mets Museum in my apartment.
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