1975 New York Mets "Meet the Mets" Highlight Reel 🎥

New York Mets Team Highlight film 1975 narrated by the Mets Broadcast team Lindsay Nelson Bob Murphy and new Hall-of-famer Ralph Kiner Highlight film features new Mets acquired during the off season Dave Kingman with an interview and Kingman making a meet n greet appearance with a local school as Kingman gives batting tips and signing autographs. New addition and future Met player-manager Joe Torre, Del Unser picked up in the Tug McGraw trade, outfielders Jesus Alou and Gene Clines and new Met rookies C John Stearns, pitchers Hank Webb, Tom Hall, Billy Baldwin and Randy Tate (and his near no-hitter) and International League MVP Mike Vail and his 32 game hitting streak.
Includes interviews with Tom Seaver looking for his 8th consecutive season with 200 strike-outs for the season and Jerry Grote and has his best season, including heading to the All Star game in Milwaukee. And new Mets Star OF Mike Vail interview. Recorded and Digitalized off a pre-recorded VHS tape which was recently restored/remastered and making its debut on the Phenia Film MLB archival channel.The promotional film also includes special event days at Shea including the Old Timers Game, Banner Day, Family Day. Yogi Berra manages his last season with the Mets as we look ahead for the 1976 season with new Mets manager Joe Frazier
RIP Mr Jerry Grote thanks for the baseball Memories to the Best Defensive Catcher to play in the Big Leagues you will be missed #15
the so-called Mets of today should retire his number
1975 New York Mets
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[@mattdon2164]

Thanks for posting this! I really enjoyed reminiscing about the 1975 Mets. Dave Kingman, Tom Seaver, Rusty Staub (105 RBI’s) really provided some thrills. However, M.Donald Grant and his minion Joe McDonald did the unforgivable in firing Yogi Berra midsummer. Yogi Berra will always be one of the most beloved players in MLB history. He did not deserve the disrespect that Grant and McDonald subjected him to. His replacement Roy McMillan was ineffective and Joe Frazier in 1976 was good for four more wins than Yogi and Roy finished with in 1975. Then Frazier was shown the door in early 1977 and a very young (36 at the time!) Joe Torre was elevated to Manager. He was the right man at the wrong time. Shortly thereafter, the famous Midnight Massacre destroyed the team that ushered in the Dark Ages of the NYM that did not end until Davey Johnson, Mex, Straw and Doc arrived. Curse you M. Donald Grant and Joe McDonald.

[@RRaquello]

Torre was a great player, but I never liked him as a manager. When he got to the Yankees he knew he had a great team and did a good job keeping things calm, being a buffer between management and the players and managed the coaching staff who really ran things on the field. So in that case he turned out to be the right guy in the right place.

[@8avexp]

Seaver was back in form, winning his third Cy Young Award. Del Unser came over in the Tug McGraw trade along with John Stearns. Rusty Staub reclaimed number 10 after Duffy Dyer was traded. Mike Vail had a 23-game hitting streak after being called up in September. He was looked upon as the future right fielder, resulting in Staub being traded to Detroit after the season. But Vail was never the same after breaking a bone in his foot playing basketball over the winter. Cleon Jones was released in mid-season. They would finish 82-80 for the year.

[@johnybaltimore3687]

Kingman's sideburns dominated the team's facial hair concerns.

[@paulsiegel2915]

wow, that pizza looked awesome

[@paulsiegel2915]

Dave, you weren't traded. the Giants sold you to the Mets for a small amount of money

[@RRaquello]

Not much imagination in the titling of this film. "Meet The Mets"? after they'd been saying that for 15 years? I remember the real story of 1975 was Mike Vail, who was a genuine rookie sensation that year out of nowhere. The Mets always oversold their prospects, from Ron Swoboda to Gregg Jefferies, leading to a lot of disappointments, but not much was said of Vail and he turned out to be the prospect who actually came through. Unfortunately it didn't last. I know he got hurt playing basketball (what could be more typical Mets?), but he probably wasn't going to be a star anyway. Just a guy like Bob Hazle who got off to a hot start until the league caught up with him.

[@davanmani556]

Should have put nameplates.,

[@mattdon2164]

Nameplates arrived a few years later. They looked good. Today’s NYM jerseys look like the cheap garbage given away on T shirt day back in the early eighties.

[@user-yl7on1fp9w]

Sorry-ass franchise with literally no iconic or HOF players who played their entire career in the uniform, one of very few teams with that distinction. In 62 years, all of 2 championships, no league MVPs, and precious little other real heritage or achievement compared to historically winning franchises. Great fans (they'd have to be), though pretty deluded- most of them need to engage in bush league begrudgery, always resenting the more accomplished and achieving teams to try and compensate. Especially after losing one of their main feel-good raps, putting down other teams who spend lots of money- until their team outspent everybody else with a record payroll and then fielded not the best- but the worst team money could buy! In this baseball age where it can (but not always) be done with mega spending, they'll probably eventually succeed- but they'll still be the Mets!

[@pheniafilmsthemlbarchiveso9229]

bitter huh pal..whos the sorry ass

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Since 1962, only eight teams have more than two world series championships, Albert Einstein