The Sports Time Traveler™

The Sports Time Traveler™

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There's a Long Drive! It's going to be, I believe...

There's a Long Drive! It's going to be, I believe...

On July 14, 1962, the Mets held their first old timer's day at the Polo Grounds and recreated the most famous scene in baseball history

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THE POLO GROUNDS - July 14, 1962 (with a flashback to October 3, 1951)

THE SPORTS TIME TRAVELER has been eagerly awaiting this article for a month ever since I learned that the 1962 Mets planned to have their first old timer’s game by staging a replay of the game in which Bobby Thomson hit the “shot heard round the world” - the home run that won the 1951…

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