From the “holiday weekend” department, the author of Meet the Mets died Thursday night. This is an excerpt from a good tale in the WSJ
“Meet the Mets” is actually slightly older than the team itself. It was commissioned in the fall of 1961 before the team’s inaugural season. Roberts wrote it with her long-time collaborator, the composer Bill Katz, who died in 1988. At a time when sports music was dominated by fight songs about crushing the opposition to a fine paste, “Meet the Mets” stood apart by sounding decidedly chummy.
Fittingly perhaps, given the Mets’ years of futility, the song barely mentions winning. The single reference to success on the field
So now that we know more about the history of “Meet the Mets,” what about Lazy Mary? Who decided to play that song during the 7th inning stretch?
im not sure when Lazy Mary started…it’s from the “not my Mets” period. I don’t remember it from the 80’s. I don;t hate it but if they stopped playing it I probably wouldn’t even post about it