Please consider tuning in to Mark Rosenman and A.J. Carter’s terrific TV show SportsTalkNY this Sunday, February 14, from 9 to 11.
This Sunday’s show is produced in conjunction with the publication of The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazing Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World, ed. by Matt Silverman and Ken Samuelson (Maple Street Press). The book is a tribute to the Mets miracle of 1969 and the show will feature the participation of 1969 Mets Ron Swoboda, Jerry Koosman, and Jack Di Lauro. I will also be part of the program, along with John Coppinger (the great Metstradamus), as an in-studio guest. I wasn’t on the 1969 Mets, but in 1969 I paid a LOT of attention to them, as you can read in my essay 1969, from my book Mets Fan.
If you want to be brought back to a season in which the Mets confounded everyone’s expectations, if you want to know why the ‘69 team will always have a privileged place in the hearts of millions, please join us on Sunday.
And you know what? You were considered a cock-eyed optimist if you predicted, at the start of the 1969 season, that the Mets were going to reach .500.
