National League Standings, July 11, 1970
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE JULY 11, 1970 GAME:
BOB MARTE
September 21, 2009
It was my 10th birthday and it was the first Met game I ever went to. I took the 7 train to the game with my best friend Jimmy Smith. We sat in the upper deck of the left field corner. I remember a number of home runs getting hit, in particular the two by Rusty Staub. I also remember the Mets struggled offensively in the game. A Met fan who was sitting next to me teased me when he overheard me asking my friend how do they figure out how many people are here. He turned and said to me, "They count the number of ears and divide by two."
Raymond Malcuit Jr.
January 4, 2019
I remember it was Old-Timers Night at Shea Stadium.
Flitgun Frankie
July 1, 2020
Attended this game with my father and brothers. We went because it was Old Timers Day (really night), because every year Dad took us to the Old Timers games at both Yankee and Shea Stadium (I guess he dug them). It was also the day before my 9th birthday, and we might have gone because of that.
Anyway, I still have the program and scorecard for the game, and I kept score, and the scorecard is still marked up with my childish scrawl. I actually did a pretty good job keeping score for an about-to-be 9 year old, because, comparing it to the scorecard here, it's 100% accurate. I also noted, on the scorecard, that there was a rain delay in the third inning right after ex-Met Jim Gosger's home run (Gosger & Bobby Wine hitting home runs in the same game. Mets giving up the long ball to a couple of banjo hitters).
As I remember it, the rain didn't last too long. We hung out under the stands, over where the ramps went down, and we took turns, spitting, trying to hit the back of those shingles that used to hang on the cables running down the side of the exterior of the stadium. They ruined the look of Shea when they took those down.
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