It's strange, but besides Tom Seaver and Jon Matlack, the one player who first comes to mind for the 1970's Mets is the Stork, George Theodore (and he only played 2 years).
And I began collecting baseball cards in 1970 and studied them like the Encyclopedia, to where I knew pretty much who every player on every team was.
I guess they had the pitching, with Seaver, Matlack, Jerry Koosman, Craig Swan and Tug McGraw, but they never seemed to have the hitting. Who knows what would've happened had they not traded Seaver to the Reds in 1977, and even before that, if they had never traded Nolan Ryan in 1972 (although Ryan has credited Tom Morgan, who was the Angels' pitching coach in the 1970s, for his becoming the pitcher he turned out to be). If Ryan had not gone to the Angels, he might not have had the HOF career he ended up having.
Steve
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Successful BST deals with eliotdeutsch, gonzo, jimivintage, Leon, lharris3600, markf31, Mrc32, sb1, seablaster, shammus, veloce.
Current Wantlist:
1909 Obak Howard (Los Angeles) (no frame on back)
1910 E90-2 Gibson, Hyatt, Maddox
Last edited by Steve D; 10-05-2016 at 02:40 PM.
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