Reliving the Mets' 1973 season

[GaryMrMets]

Reliving the Mets' 1973 season
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Tug McGraw saved 25 games in 1973. (courtesy New York Mets)

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Tom Seaver went 11-5 in the first half of the 1973 season. (courtesy New York Mets)

[PopTop]

That was a really weird season, pretty loopy times for a high school senior as well :freak: But I've always thought it was really more of a miracle that the Mets made it to Game 7 of the Series that year against the A's than a miracle when they won it in '69 ... I understand why '69 gets the "Miracle Mets" tag, but the '73 team did more with less in my memory.

[Cyberlibrarian]

You're right. They did.

But 1969 was a miracle because they went from being the worst team in history to winning the WS within a very short period of time. They were the first of the four original expansion teams to win a World Series and, until the Royals won it all in 1985, they were the ONLY expansion team to win a World Series.