A METS Summer Night's Dream

While I was sleeping 50 years ago, Tom Seaver was on the mound in San Diego

SAN DIEGO - August 16, 1973

“Last night” in 1973, in real life, I was asleep by 10pm. I was 9 years old and I was going to day camp the next morning. The Mets game in San Diego didn’t start until 10:25pm. And it wasn’t broadcast on WOR Channel 9 in New York. In the New York area you could only listen to the game on the radio.

Naturally, my present sel…