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Good morning Mets fans! It's Friday the 13th. In today's Substack newsletter we look back at the relationship between Donn Clendenon and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Good morning Mets fans! It’s Friday the 13th. We are looking forward to the long weekend and we hope you will join us on Twitter and Instagram @MetsRewind as we launch our new weekend feature called Rewind Weekend. We will select one year in franchise history and highlight the games, players and cultural events of the season.

King and Clink

“A man tries to do some good, like Martin Luther King. He does good for black people and for white people. Somebody doesn’t agree with him, and gets a gun. And you say to yourself, ‘My God, can a thing like this happen in this country?’” - Al Jackson

On the morning after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, one-by-one, 11 African-American Major League Baseball players filed into Donn Clendenon’s Holiday Inn hotel room in Houston. Maury Wills and Roberto Clemente arrived first; then Willie Stargell, Al Oliver, Dock Ellis and a half dozen other Pirates teammates convened.

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Today’s Birthdays

  • Heath Hembree (34)

  • Elmer Dessens (52)

  • Kevin Mitchell (61)

Mitchell, a member of the 1986 World Series team, joined the @MetsRewind Podcast this past summer. Listen to the full podcast here:

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‘70 Rewind: Seaver named Male Athlete of the Year

The Associated Press named Tom Seaver its “Male Athlete of the Year.” The Franchise beat out another New York icon — Joe Namath — to win the honor. Seaver received 96 votes, while Namath notched 51 votes.


Rewind Weekend

Follow us on Twitter @MetsRewind. This weekend we are launching a new pilot feature: Rewind Weekend. We will pick one season in team history and highlight games, players and events from that year. Which year? You decide.

PICK THE YEAR


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