It almost slipped through the cracks, almost found its way through the five-hole of our local baseball memory, but thankfully there was Gary Cohen on the television Friday night, just as the Mets were finishing off the Giants at San Francisco’s Oracle Park. He mentioned that April 3 was a fairly significant day in Mets history.
Yes. Yes, it was.
Come with me now. Let’s go back 60 years, and travel 3,000 miles west to the Central Valley region of California. Let’s pick up a copy of the Fresno Bee newspaper and flip to page 4-B of the Monday, April 4, 1966, edition. That’s the first page of the Bee’s sports section.
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