New York Mets vs. Cincinnati Reds at Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York. A Saturday afternoon game on August 19, 1972, with a crowd of 43,257 fans. The Mets lost 5-0 to the Reds.
47 years ago almost to the day.
(L-R) Pete Rose LF, Tom Gorman Home Plate Umpire, Yogi Berra Manager, Chris Pelekoudas 1B, Nick Colosi 2B, Andy Olsen 3B.
The GREAT Tom Seaver hitting flies to the outfielders before the start of the game during warmups.
The great Johnny Bench takes a mighty home run swing. He did hit a home run that game (#27) and was playing right field. The GREAT Jerry Grote is catching for the Mets.
All pics were taken by me with my trusty Yashica TL Electro-X 35mm SLR on Kodak Ektachrome 64 color slide film. I was using a 2x teleconverter on my 50mm Auto Yashinon lens.
The high temperature was 84 degrees which was recorded at Central Park. Bright sunshine and low humidity – perfect baseball weather!
The Mets record stood at 59-52 which is just a bit lower than their 2019 record of 63-60 but still in the typical range for the Mets this time of year.
Have a great day everyone and Let’s Go Mets! – Chris
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Fantastic images. Bring back a lot of memories.
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Thank you! Yes, very good times and lots of great memories.
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