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August 29, 1979
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Daniel Tolliver
October 13, 2020
This was the first Mets game I ever went to. I was able to convince my mom to take me since it was a day game in the middle of the week. We bought tickets when we got there and got field level seats. I remember my first look at the players uniforms and noticing how vivid the colors were. I had binoculars and used them mostly to watch the starting pitchers — Ray Burris and Rick Matula. It was overcast most of the game, but started raining heavily with Ed Kranepool coming to bat with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning. They played on through the rain with the Mets down to their final out and the potential tying run on first. Joel Youngblood had just singled, driving in Frank Taveras and Alex Trevino, to get the Mets within a run, but Kranepool popped up to the second baseman to end the rally and the game. The next day, I looked at the box score in the newspaper and saw that the attendance was 6,602. I told my mom that we were the “2” in that attendance number.



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