Thanks to Steve for Clouseau-ing this one together:
Dana Brand has been working on a conference in 2012…
On April 26, 27, and 28, 2012, Hofstra University, with the cooperation of the New York Mets, is going to host a conference, open to the public, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the team. The conference is being organized by me, Dana Brand, and a colleague of mine at Hofstra, Richard Puerzer. In the next few months, we expect to be sending out a Save the Dates announcement and a Call for Papers Announcement. Other correspondence will follow in the course of 2011.
We are currently assembling mailing lists for the conference. If you would like to receive our announcements, please e-mail me at danaabrand@yahoo.com. If you’d like to receive the announcements only by snail mail, please give me your name and address. If you’d only like to receive our announcements by e-mail, please give me your name and e-mail address. If you’d like to receive our announcements by snail mail and by e-mail, please give me both your snail mail and your e-mail addresses.
This is going to be a terrific conference, the first ever to explore ALL ASPECTS of the existence of a major league baseball team. Get on the mailing list, or get the latest information by following the announcements that will appear on my blog.
That I have heard about before and have been excited about for some time. Steve noticed that Dana posted the following in the same message board thread.
The thing is that the Mets, over the years, are not being consistent about when their anniversaries are. The 1986 season was the big deal, as the 25th season. And 2010 will be the 50th season. But right now they prefer to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2012. At least, that’s what they said to us as we began to initiate the conference.
Old guys like me remember that they celebrated the 25th in 1986….and if you count on your fingers you will find that 1986 was the 25th season much like 2011 will be the 50th season (go ahead and try it 62, 63, 64…)
Cynical guys like me realize that they can celebrate the 25th anniversary of 1986 this season and get some old guys like me to show up (but inly about 35,000 of us based upon 8/1/10) and then celebrate the 50th in 2012 (and then the 30th of the Tuggies in 2013).
Anyways, here’s to hoping that when 50 does happen they TAKE THE EXCUSE to look like this.
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A few folks have sent in cool things to shannon@metspolice.com
Keep ’em coming! I will be rolling them out as the days go by. Today I’m trying to not be on the computer all day.