Mets Win the World Series 1969

[JKubel25]

Ah, the days before paper shredding... just dump it out your window.

[Luigi84289]

Good year for the young team. Nolan Ryan was on the team that year and got to share in the WS glory. Unfortunately he would never go back.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

A lot of paper has been in the air over New York because of all the championships.

George Vreeland Hill

[cgn49]

was in Parris Island then.my dad kept me abrest of what was happening

[go57mets]

and that is why we have to conserve paper now hahaha

[TheTzdope]

this music sounds like a nazi invasion is imminent!

[44032]

@TheTzdope It's actually the theme from "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad World", (1963)

[Eric51987]

FUCK THE METS

FUCK THE YANKS

FUCK NEW YORK

You guys do have good pizza though :)

GO ORIOLES we still have more championships than the mets!

[Matoro4Ever]

@michaelm0522 Who gives a fuck?

[AmericanNohbuddy]

@michaelm0522

it's not a world title.

[idlefonzo201]

@michaelm0522 Dumb fuck Yankees have been in existance since 1903. Mets since 1961. Not fair to compare the 2. It's like comparing someone who has 100 at bats with someone who has 30.

[loxer101]

@Eric51987 orioles are good but boston is better

[filbertsontherun]

@Eric51987 Stop cursing already

[UncleMikeNJ]

@musicguy550 Either you don't know the facts, or you're a liar. From 1957 to '61, the Yankees per-game attendance went from 19,443 to 21,444 -- hardly "picking up a majority." In 1962, with the arrival of the Mets, it went down to 18,439 despite winning another Series. The Yanks wouldn't top that until the reopening of The Stadium in 1976. Met per-game attendance in '64, with Shea opening, 21,390, almost exactly the combined Dodger (13,354) and Giant (8,493) total from '57.

[UncleMikeNJ]

@musicguy550 You're an idiot. Joan Payson and M. Donald Grant were on the Giants' board of directors, the only 2 to vote against moving to San Francisco. So it was NOT "totally new ownership." No Dodger and Giant fans switched to the Yankees -- it was a badge of honor, as if the National League was something holy (it isn't). The ignorance of Met fans should have long since ceased to astound me, but still it increases.

[UncleMikeNJ]

@musicguy550 Wow, are you ignorant. The former fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants united, so the Mets had MORE fans than the Yankees. Time went on and people realized that the Mets were always going to be Number 2 -- in more ways than one. The population of New York City (8 million) and the Tri-State Area (19 million) have remained roughly the same, yet the Yankees still gain fans while the Mets still lose them. But then, since when can a Met fan use "simple logic"?

[UncleMikeNJ]

@musicguy550 Yeah, the shit is flowing towards Flushing, all right. It always ends up there. Why does the grass at Citi Field look good? Because the Mets put $150 million worth of fertilizer on it every day!

[Wehategod]

Hey with Pitchers like Seaver Mcgraw Koosman and Ryan how could the Mets been Stopped what a team!!! Kranepool and Boswell etc......

[AllStarBugler]

this was the happiest day of my childhood

[BobbyFz]

I guess now we can see why people consider Yankee fans arrogant pricks. I don't hate the Yankees - how could anyone hate a team with that much history including the greatest player ever, Babe Ruth - but Yankee fans seem to think that because the TEAM has been great that translates to THEY are great, and it doesn't work like that. The Mets are clearly never going to be the Yankees and they can't compare in WS wins. I don't care. The Mets are MY guys and that's good enough for me.

[oldredbarnman]

This was just an excuse to throw out all the garbage, without bagging it first! haha

[01thechief]

I was in 4th grade. Our entire school suspended classes in afternoon, all students were put into 3 classrooms, and we all got to watch the game! When the school day ended, game still going. I ran 2 blocks to my house, and watched my beloved NY Mets win their first World Series!

[doglips1958]

Yes the Mets were hot,but the total collapse of the Cubs helped them too.Not knocking either team, so don't send me hate mail.LOL

[tubjiji]

Seaver actually did not win a game in this series. He started game 4, pitched wonderfully for 10 innings, but did not get the win. In fact, the Orioles tied the game in the ninth inning on a sac fly that Ron Swoboda made one of the great catches in WS history on.

[UncleMikeNJ]

Game 1: WP Mike Cuellar, LP Tom Seaver; Game 2, WP Jerry Koosman, LP Dave McNally; Game 3, Gary Gentry, LP Jim Palmer; Game 4, yes, Tom Seaver, LP Dick Hall; Game 5, WP Koosman, LP Eddie Watt. Met fans are so dumb, or at least this one, is, he gets the greatest moment his team will ever have wrong!

[pannoni1]

The Baltimore Orioles and fans like me these days now consider simply making .500 a "Championship Season".

[JoeH0325]

Nolan Ryan's only World Series appearance in his career.

Tom Seaver - the 1st Met pitcher to lose a World Series game (he also won 1 that series)

Ron Swoboda with a great diving catch to save game 4. (He was usually a horrible fielder)

Tommie Agee with 2 incredible catches in game 3.

They finished in 9th place the previous season and were 9 games out of 1st in late July but they won their division by 9 games.

They were the Amazin' Mets!

[IvMaDdNeSsvI]

Yeah it's pretty incredulous that one of the best pitchers in history had his only World Series win with the Mets. The Mets were great.

[mairin17]

wish we could do it again

[Ballplayer300th]

GO BRAVES!

[devantesworld]

o yea thanks

[mnc51]

These are the days the city's cleaning crew fears.

[devantesworld]

lol wow lil bro 1st ring iam so happy 4 u lil bro nottttttttttttttttttttttttt than 17 years later u got number 2 wow thats awesome then 14 years after tt u finally g a chance 2 beat big bo head 2 hed but u choke again lil bro go yanks lets show lil bro how 2 when a rng number 27 but whos counting

[IvMaDdNeSsvI]

you forgot 1973. That was a mega choke game 7 ws.

[vccstudents]

Yes, '73 was a choke thanks to Wayne Garrett insisting on swinging for the fences when he represented the tying run. There were two runners on, and he could have kept a rally going, especially since the Mets were such a light hitting team that year.

[IvMaDdNeSsvI]

You are very illiterate and jealous because the Skankees don't get a celebration this big.

[UncleMikeNJ]

I guess you missed the 4 million people who came out in 1996, topping the 3 million in 1986. The '69 Mets remain the most beloved single-season team in baseball history, but they were a flash in the pan. Your team will never be the Yankees, and at this rate they need to worry more about keeping up with the Phillies who finally won Title 2 -- never mind Title 27.

[IvMaDdNeSsvI]

Who cares asshole it's baseball. My team is the Mets in which i follow carefully. I love baseball period. Also please make sense so people can understand. i get a random ass comment from you that has no relation to my comment which was posted over a month ago. The second half of your comment is the one the is hard to understand having the knowledge that i do in the English language. Please explain. If your trying to say the Mets suck then good for you. Not changing my position.

[UncleMikeNJ]

Only a Met fan would be so dumb as to think Yankee Fans don't make sense. Do you not understand the meaning of "flash in the pan"? It means they had a great moment and then didn't do it again. If you had more knowledge of the English language, or math, or history, you would root for somebody else. You need to change your position about as much as Luis Castillo does.

[tcampbellla]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[091053JG]

I was in High School that day. When the Mets won game 5 there was a huge roar.

[slider41]

I was in the West Village that day. I watched the 5th through 9th innings thorugh a Bar room window next to the Waverly Theater.  I recall being upset when we trailed 3-0, only to have hope restored qwhen Clendenon hit his 2 run dinger after Jones's shoe polish play. Light hitting Al Weiss continued his great WS with the tying HR next inning. We all know hat happened in the bottom of the 8th.

Amaziingly, Koos went the distacne after trailing 3-0 early on- someting yuou'd never see today.

[orioles2009wschamps]

go orioles!

[tcampbellla]

Dream on, little broomstick cowboy!!!!!

[xyrtle]

I was THERE--working in the financial district with a portable tv in the office to watch the last game. HOLY COW! The City erupted! Everything was flying out the windows--phone books, rolls of toilet paper, ticker tape! My friend and I went down on the street and were picked up and carried down Wall St. Guys were hanging off of lightposts and jumping on the roofs of cars. Then there was the tickertape parade. What a time to be alive! PS I'm a Yankee fan but who cared?

[giggitygoo9812]

New York Mets + New York Giants= BEST TEAMS IN THE WORLD NO MATTER WHAT NUMBERS COME UP THEY'RE STILL NUMBER ONE!

[MikeMet75]

they say the golden age was from the 30's to 60's what a way for the Mets to end the golden age with a BANG!

[tvpirate05]

Great footage!

[angelo102496]

NEW YORK SHOULD BE TITLE TOWN

[LashBridges]

You know, unless you were a met fan back in the 60s (as many were in my family...I preferred the other NY team), you can't comprehend how AWFUL these guys were. Just off the top of my head...1962-the first run ever given up by the Mets was on a balk. And it only got worse!. They were the worst team to ever play the game. But with young talent being recruited, guys like Agee, Jones, Grote, Seaver, Kranepool, McGraw, Kooseman, Harrelson, Swaboda, Staub. What an AWESOME team. Great year in basebal

[yeldarb11]

you can't forget Ryan, Gaspar, Clendenon, Koonce, Boswell, Dyer. The Mets record in 62 was 40 and 120. I wonder how many of them are still alive? I know Agie died a few years ago.

[giles422]

what a memorable day in NY history.

[sanders924]

mets...way better than yankees...all those people that say they are yankees fans are mets fans on the inside...EVERYONE LOVES THE METS!

[viperari]

Speak for yourself buddy. Just think of it mets..2 world series champs. Yankees..26 buddy! Let's go Yankees. But Let's Go new York ,too! I hate boston Red Sucks!

[sanders924]

yeah, right now the mets are going downhill. no reason to fire willie or peterson, just b/c they think it will make the team better. its the players! not the coaches! i like the red sox, not b/c there the yankees rivals, but just b/c i like alot of baseball teams.

[WWEMETSGIANTS123]

well i think the yankees own the town

the mets are just getting there

plus i hate the phillies more than i would ever hate the yankees

i dont hate the yankees but i dont noe i just dont like watching their games

[btrjr007]

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[kiko12468]

mets best team ever

[EarlSnohomish]

The '86 team was easily the best, though the '69 team might have been the most fun.

[20mules]

I was there! It was a totally spontaneous reaction and great fun. I was 19 years old and worked on 5th Ave and 36th St on the west side of the street. Some coworkers and I happily participated in the paper blizzard. I reacall entire rolls of toilet paper unfurling from the Empire State Bldg, which was visible from our window. I was a fan too, having lived in Flushing and witnessed the birth of the METS.

[AskJeeves17]

Awesome retro vid, GO METS!

[reprobacious]

Interesting choice using the soundtrack from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. :-) Thanks for posting.

[giles422]

truly amazing SPONTANEOUS celebration- absolutely incredible and so memorable. That was 3:30 pm on a Thursday afternoon in Mid town Manhattan, puppies- the whole city halted.

[chris407x]

This is an awesome film!I was a kid in 1969 living on Long Island and I enjoyed showing this to my kids. Thanks for sharing it!

[desigal7]

Just glad to see a ticker tape parade. Kids didn't know what it was. Do they still do these in New York?

[Mudhen20]

Actually, this was NOT a ticker tape parade, rather - a SPONTANEOUS REACTION to the Mets win! The ticker tape parade was on the following Monday -- that's what makes this reaction so special. In my neighborhood on LI, there were car horns blaring, people on the lawn banging pots -- chokes me up just thinking about it...great family times.

[Mudhen20]

Actually, this was NOT a ticker tape parade, rather - a SPONTANEOUS REACTION to the Mets win! The ticker tape parade was on the following Monday -- that's what makes this reaction so special. In my neighborhood on LI, there were car horns blaring, people on the lawn banging pots -- chokes me up just thinking about it...great family times. You're right -- they are not the Yankees. Gotta give the Yanks a world of credit for winning it again with style and class. But the 69 Mets team was special.

[dreggymon]

I Wanna See The Black Cat Circle Whatsisname - 3rd Base/Cubs!!

[pcsbeat]

Lotsa paper but where are the Mets? LOL

Amazin' year and team. Thanks for sharing.

[txdxs]

YA GOTTA BELIEVE!

[hughlooks]

That's an old beautiful film. Always love seeing New York bring home a championship!

[BrassPie]

1969 was the last year I went to High School. Oh, how I remember the season! Throughout their Entire Existence they were the WORST Baseball team in history. And then suddenly they were the best.

There was one game where Tommy Aggie hit a home run over the Center Field Fence. The center fielder didn't bother to move; he just bent over a little, shook his head, and put his hands on his knees.

I won't even get into the game with Jimmy Qualls.

[unclemarty1]

HELL YEAH

[tripleplay1111]

didnt they have nolan ryan and seaver that year?

[brutal666]

yes

[JimR541]

Ryan was only a supporting player really. Koosman was the other big time pitcher the Mets had that year. Actually they had 4 pitchers that pitched til the age of 39 or older. Seaver, Ryan, Koosman and tug McGraw.

[toons416]

ryan was on the 69 mets

[drieaz]

no doofus! that was the year they had andy pettitte.

[spookielectric]

A HEROS WELCOME FOR THE AMAZINGS