Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME cover has so often been a hex. Let's hope the Mets survive your curse." Chuckled a Chicagoan, whose Cubs were then still in first place: "Many thanks for the 'kiss of death' cover story on the Mets." Shortly thereafter, the Mets swept a three-game series with the Cubs, and the rest is glorious history. Cartoonist Willard Mullin, who drew the original cover, shows how baseball's amazing babies have suddenly grown to manhood...
ONCE, long ago in the verdant land of New York's Flushing Meadow, there lived a band of sportsmen who got together often to play the ancient game of baseball. They were called the Mets. They were also called the Amazin' Mets, because they did not play baseball very well. They were, as everyone knows, terrible. But the people of Flushing Meadow loved them; they loved the antics performed by the Amazin's and they loved their names: Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Hot Rod Kanehl, Choo Choo Coleman. The people went to Shea Stadium, where the Mets booted...
...Mets found themselves competing in the world championship of baseball. Their foes were the strongest, most arrogant players of all-the gang from Menckenville. "A fluke," said the wise men of Las Vegas. They called the Mets 8-5 underdogs. And, as predicted, the Mets lost the first game, 4-1. All the talk was of bubbles bursting and of the explosion of impossible dreams. "We told you so," said the smart-money bettors. But the Mets were undaunted; they refused to heed the doomsayers...
...pound Marinaro has carried the ball 145 times to amass 843 yards in four games, an average of 211 yards per game...
Most of the players are expected to be on hand for the dinner. The Annual Varsity Club Award will also be presented. Will Cloney '33 will be toastmaster, and football coach Yoviesin will speak briefly on Saturday's game against Dartmouth...