National League Standings, August 22, 1972
METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE AUGUST 22, 1972 GAME:
Rich
October 8, 2002
My first game. What an experience! 9 yrs old, in the upper deck, section 1, and the untold vastness of the place! The booming sound of the PA. The greenest green, the bluest blue, and those chipped wooden seats. I think the scorecard was 75cents and the genl admission was 1.35! I got a Tug McGraw pin and wore it the rest of the summer. I figured I was good luck for the Mets, cause they won that night. I wonder if the thrill is the same for kids today?
Sly Jones
September 11, 2003
Interesting trivia note about this game: This was the night of the real-life bank robbery in Flatbush that inspired the movie "Dog Day Afternoon." The two robbers and their hostages passed their time inside the bank listening to the Mets game on the radio. The Mets did better than the robbers did.
Stuart Michaels
October 12, 2013
Was staying with my grandmother in The Bronx and she took me to this game. She really wasn't much of a baseball fan. I was 8 years old and already a big Mets fan. Living in The Bronx she would always say "I was never into baseball especially The Yankees .But after 2 brothers and a husband it took my grandson Stuart to turn me into a Mets fan." I'll never forger that night, Grandma. Let's Go Mets!!!
Stu Baron
January 4, 2019
The first of many games I have attended with
the guy who would become my lifelong best
friend. He was 13 and I was 12 then, we are 59
and 58 today. For some reason, I remember Lute
Barnes and Jim Beauchamp playing in this one.
Our most recent game together was the David
Wright tribute on 9/29/18. In between, we've
been to lots of regular season games as well as
those of the Mets in the NLDS and NLCS, the
Yankees in the ALDS and ALCS, and both teams in
the World Series. We were at Shea on 8/24/73
for Mets 1, Giants 0 in 10 innings - a
barnburner we still talk about in which Juan
Marichal and Jerry Koosman both went the
distance, at Yankee Stadium on 8/4/85 for Tom
Seaver's 300th win (he won his 110th on this
night), at Shea on 10/9/88 for the Mike
Scioscia heartbreaker (30+ years on, we're
still waiting for Davey to bring in Randy Myers
to relieve Gooden), at Yankee Stadium on
6/16/97 for Dave Mlicki's shutout in the first
subway series game, and at Shea on 10/26/00 for
the Game 5 elimination loss to the Yankees.
We have mentally marked our calendars for
8/22/22 when, if the Mets have a home game, we
plan to attend together to mark our 50th
anniversary.
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