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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00
i've always been a Ryan fan.
for some strange reason i latched on to the Gil Hodges 1969 Amazin' Mets years after that season because i loved baseball and it was the year i was born. Koosman, Seaver, Ryan, McGraw...Agee, Kranepool, Harrelson, Cleon, Amos Otis, Ron Swoboda.
I was just a kid when I saw Mets play Dodgers late 1969. Mets were just getting hot, but they lost this game and were 5 or 6 games behind the Cubs IIRC.
So after the game my brother and I go to the right field exit where the visiting team would board their bus. It was the best place for us to get autographs of the visiting team's players. Before the game my brother got a BP home run ball in left field pavilion, and used that for autographs instead of his book. So he proceeds to get basically all the starting players, including Ryan, Seaver, Koosman, Hodges, Grote, Swoboda, etc. I still remember how young the Mets players looked, it seemed nobody was over 25. My brother still has the ball 50+ years later.