Category: yearbook

After the 1979 season:

“Ok we really screwed the pooch last season.   We’ve lost all our fans, we drew under 800,000, what are we gonna do now?”

“Let’s appeal to the 10 year old Lee Mazzilli fans.  I bet if we give them something they can relate to they will be fans for life.  We can be “the people’s team!”

“You sure?  I was thinking we could import players from Japan.  The Japanese Willie Stargell is pretty good I hear.”

“The actual Willie Stargell is overrated.  Keith Hernandez was the true MVP.”

“Who?”

“Never mind.  Just stick a kid on there and work Mazzilli in.   If we rope in another generation of fans we’ll be OK for the next 30 years.    Meanwhile, I have another idea – let’s put half the games on cable television.”

“But they don’t get cable in Queens!   I heard it will be 1987 before all the wiring is done….”

“I’m telling you these people are sheep!  This time jack the price of the yearbook 50 cents!  Bwahahahahaha!”

Now we’re into the age that I remember.  Although we’re looking at Angel’s yearbook collection, I own this one myself.  The price has crept up to $1.25 (25% increase after trading Tom Seaver, are you insane?).  I think this one has the cool Old Timer’s Day recap – from when the Mets had Mays, Joe D, the Duke and maybe it was Mantle?  I have to dust off my chocolate stained version of this.

Dad. whereever you are your $1.25 clearly made an impression on me.  Thanks!

Hmmm…is this the original 1977 yearbook or some sort of de-Seavered revised edition.   Koosman is cool and all, this just seems so suspicious.  Still a buck.  (Thanks again to Angel for the hook-up!)

We’ve been poking around Angel’s collection of Mets yearbooks.   ’76 we’d expect something Bicentennial right?  Belive em in 1976 Bicentennial was HUGE.  Everything was Bicentennial.  I mean EVERYTHING.  See that 76 on Mr. Met’s jersey…that particular 76 font was all over the place.

I’ve made it my life goal to be at the Tricentennial which will put me into my 100’s…however maybe I’d like to be around for 2086 so I can bitch about the 100th anniversary patches in one last post before I croak.  I’ll be the one guy who gives a crap about the 1986 team.  Oh wait, I think I was on Sunday.  KIDDING relax.

I actually like this better than anything we’ve seen since 1968.

After yesterday’s out of sequence look at 1987, here’s the 1975 yearbook featuring good old Tom Seaver.   Nicknamed”The Franchise” it’s good to know he’ll be a Met forever.  Note the price has snuck up to a dollar – a 33% increase!