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JerryG posted:

Matt,

No doubt, those were the days.  I still play Strat-o-matic, from Glen Head, NY.  Most ML GM's have played the game that invented sabermetrics before there was sabermetrics.   Mickey, Willie, and the Duke are still banging them out at my house, and have been since 1966.  I'm a baseball guy first, train guy second.

Sorry for the flash, here is Larsen's first pitch to Gilliam on October 8, 1956.  That's Larsen's signature.  Mantle and McDougald are hidden behind Berra and Pinelli.  It's in the pool room, but no trains circle around that one.  I'm afraid a steel beam prevents it.  I definitely wish it weren't so.

There were a ton of Giants/Dodgers fans that became Mets fans.  Citi Field had so much Dodger stuff that current Met fans had to complain.   Where were Seaver, Koosman, Jones, Gooden, Strawberry, Carter, and the rest?

The move to NH made you a sawk fan.  I went to Plymouth State.  Saw lots of games at the phone booth.  Good times.

Getting back to Buy Anything Cool Lately, here are two of my latest...

So you can tell the scale, that is a Santa Fe light switch plate, underneath a mammoth, extremely cool, engine front.  The forum guys turned me onto it with pics from the Big E train expo.  A husband and wife business in Georgia, they make fantastic train stuff.  I'm sure the guys will know the name, which I can't seem to find.

Jerry

Jerry - Got this Mets Mug in 1972 when Willie came back to the Mets to finish his career.  Amazing like the Mets, he homered in his first at bat against  his old team, the Giants.  He retired after he drove in a run in the 12th inning of Game 2 World Series against Oakland.  The Mets went on to lose that series.

PS  The Red Sox have a chance to clinch tomorrow night against the Yankees in the Bronx.  Imagine 103 wins and still a few more games to go.  

When I was a kid I saw many a Yankee game on a 19" B&W TV,  including Larsen's perfect game in WS & also in 1961 when Mantle & Maris chased Ruth's 60 homer mark.  Great memories.