1977 New York Mets "Accent on Youth" Highlight Reel 🎥

1977 New York Mets Promotional and Team Highlight film narrated by Mets broadcasters Lindsay Nelson, Bob Murphy, and Ralph Kiner. New Mets player-manager Joe Torre as he starts a new era in the New York Mets since the team changed ownership a new era by bringing up young talent from the minor leagues from the Tom Seaver trade OFs Steve Henderson who became a fan favorite at Shea, young OFers Dan Norman and Bruce Boisclair making their way from Tidewater to the Mets, and at 2B Doug Flynn already showing signs of becoming a Gold Glover, and a new Young pitching staff like Craig Swan, Jackson Todd coming back to pitch in the Big Leagues since his recovery from cancer. Includes the famous New York Blackout Gamed special promotion days at Shea. Eddie Kranepool goes back to visit his old High School James Monroe High in the Bronx where a lot of Major Leaguers came out of.
Recorded and Digitalized off a pre-Recorded VHS tape which was originally uploaded over a year ago and is part of the extras included on the 1977 Mets Old Timers game at Shea original WOR-TV Broadcast. If your looking for Mets Team Highlights and World Series from 1969 and 1973 they too are part of extras included at the end of the World Series games I have up on the Phenia Film MLB archival KZbin Channel.
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[@RRaquello]

Goose Gossage with the Pirates at 16:55. Future Met great Randy Jones at 15:18. That interview with Joe Torre looks like they took him out to that grubby area on the Belt Parkway across from Starrett City for the picturesque background.

[@lawrencebenjamin502]

God Bless the TRUE Mets fans that were loyal during this time.

[@MrAitraining]

Right here lol

[@voidfilan5055]

So true, especially with the Yankees and Nearby Phillies winning a lot back then

[@RRaquello]

Have to admit I wasn't a Mets fan, but just a baseball fan growing up in NYC and we went to a LOT of games during this time. Tickets were cheap ($1.50 general admission) & easy to get, and if you just liked baseball and weren't getting your heart broken by the Mets, it was fun to go.

[@8avexp]

Who can forget the Midnight Massacre? That's when fans stopped coming to games and the front office couldn't understand why.

[@chriszenko3598]

I use to cut out coupons from the milk cartons when i was a kid and get free tickets in those days or buy bleacher seats for 2 dollars and give the usher 1 dollar to move me to the box seats. Shea was empty in those days the Mets where horrible lol

[@graciemcc]

Wow! I wasn't really a Mets fan, but when I first started learning about baseball, collecting trading cards and playing Strat-O-Matic, three ballplayers I fell in love with were Steve Henderson, Lenny Randle, and Lee Mazzilli. So cool to see them all featured here. Thanks for posting this!

[@Fantline]

I loved the giveaway days. I used to have one of those blue plastic batting helmets and I kept it for many years

[@kc0lif]

joe torre great player & manager.

[@glennbzt]

A young Joe Torre ..

[@spider_hoss]

9:18 Ed Kranepool in the tail end of his career.

[@mattdon2164]

No Chico Escuela?

[@wiedep]

The intro did give folks fair warning, '77 otherwise known at Shea as Grant's Tomb. Quick! Run to the freezer you won't miss much... "..looking for...exciting lineup of winners in '78..." you'll find the rest of NL there, Mets had only 33 wins at home. Using recognized NFL Films music throughout, how 'bout Howard fot the narration? Within the year even 'Nelsie' had enough, going to left coast to work at dreadful Candlestick and being closer to his daughter. Great blank stare as 1st shot, Joe had that look and more the next 3 years. He was another player Mets tried to get year-to-year but like Willie he wasn't available until the talent was thin. Would have been a better 3rd sacker than Fregosi though. Don't have too much to promote when manager's wife gets her say and Joe on horseback! Velour jacket, turtleneck and 10 gallon hat - YeeHaw! After a good start, cold stark reality set in with "the midnight massacre", the 2 people Torre would want to "add" would need to be HoF'ers. What's gonna "..be there for a while.." aren't winners, farm system was not gonna help. Who's more of a character - Lenny Randle (with that coat) or Lenny Dykstra? All that time at Krane's HS field - a real "network time killer", '70's Mets were the only club who'd carry him. Old Timer's centerfield walk-in was classy, those guys were available due to All Star game in 'da Bronx 3 days later. "Peter Puck" t-shirt at jacket day, a mix of sports. Mayor's Trophy game, only thing Mets did better than Yanks that year. Stearns had too much of a football mentality, was good but not Grote who was mercifully traded to Dodgers for the stretch run. After the "massacre", being selected for All Star team was the best of a bad lot - then having to hear the standing ovation for Seaver in 'da Bronx a few weeks later. I was there, it was loud. Henderson wore same uni and outfield as Willie but Joe's overstatement should have annoyed Willie. What Mets got for Seaver did not come close too adding up on daily basis. Come on' Joe! Lipstick on a... If you want "more mileage" from Bruce Boisclair, then he should use Getty gas - as the sign on scoreboard in '73 read - "Getty-more gas". At 1st base - Bruce B. or Eddie K., not gonna create fear for rest of the NL. Dan Norman played less than 200 games in NYM uni. Maddox returning to the same wet/slow outfield where his knee injury occurred in '75 (he sued Mets, NYC Parks dept., Yanks etc.) which limited his playing time w/Yanks in '76. Logjam in outfield and more injuries made his time w/Mets uneventful. Only thing that Montenez and Reggie had in common was the line "...There isn't enough mustard in the world to cover (pick one)..." At the time the Yanks were using a bazooka and Mets a pop-gun for free agents. Espinosa "...such a beauty ..." then trade him for Richie "I hate being on the Mets" Hebner?!? Yea, right Joe. Nino had winning record 1st year in Philly and got a ring in '80. Pat Zachary's wind up looked like an out-of-control beach chair unfolding. All they could say about Swan-nie was his uni number is his current age?? The blackout was fitting way to describe '77, suddenly dark and stayed that way. Poor Kooz, from 20 wins in '76 to enduring 2 more summers at Grant's Tomb going 11-35, at least his "get out of jail" trade brought in Jessie Orosco. Joe still trying to make that oinker kissable, '78 did not make Mets fans want to "show up at Shea" with attendance about the same as '77 then the bottom dropped out in '79 as quick as you can say Lorinda De Roulet or Mettle the Mule. But, there's hope on the way from Fred Cou-pon and Nelson Doubleday... Right?

[@Fantline]

Looking back on the youth Torre talked about none of them never really panned out. It turns out Hendersons best year was that first because he never maintained that magic. Mazzilli along with Henderson was a fan favorite who we thought would’ve been a perennial all star but he was an average player, pretty much like the rest of the team at that time.

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Mazz was a horrible player. He was a moron

[@creates100]

Terrible met teams from 77 to 83. Torre won around 40 % of games. He managed until 81. Then took Atlanta to a division title in 82. To be fair the Mets were practically an expansion team in those years

[@nosportsteamfollower516]

The Mets didn't pursue top free agents like the Yankees did and the they started losing fans.

[@johnpastore7685]

That team sucked. Steve Cohen would never let that happen again