Excerpt from: ‘Met Brutality’ a placard read in Pittsburgh, and the – 09.22.69 – SI Vault
Professional baseball had endured for 92 years before the New York Mets first got their hands on it back in the spring of 1962. While they couldn’t quite kill the game, they certainly brought it to one knee. Doing things that had never even been imagined before, they drove their fans into one of the oddest diversions ever developed: writing on bed-sheets. While it was long believed that the simple act of putting on a Yankee uniform caused players to perform better, a Met uniform suddenly turned some previously gifted players into clowns. In their first seven years of existence the Mets finished a total of 288� games out of first place and built their all-important loss column to 737.
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