If baseball had its way in the mid-1960s, the birthdays and anniversaries of the biggest expansion class in the game’s history wouldn’t happen for another couple of years. The Kansas City Royals are ...

The Redmen will be led into the 1969 season by two All New England players, shortstop and co-captain, Joe DiSarcina, and outfielder, Bob Hansen. Joe played brilliantly the past two years and has hit ...

See photos from the 1969 Mets World Series Championship Parade and celebrations in Citi Field, taking place on Saturday, June 29, 2019. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke Mets 1969 World Series ...

Courtesy photo Members of the 1969 undefeated Altoona Area High School baseball team include (from left): First row--Steve Sauers, Paul Hargreaves (deceased), Bob Ramazzotti (deceased), Ralph Williams ...

Virginia High’s “Big Orange” band played loudly. Legends of Bristol’s baseball past were honored. Spectators poured into the newly constructed Randolph Field. The evening of June 25, 1969, was a ...

Some family members of the 1969 Mets have only the memories of others or YouTube to learn about their relative’s role on the World Series champion. “The reality of mortality,’’ former pitcher Jim ...

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USAFA — For the first time in 53 years, the Air Force baseball team is headed to the postseason. The last Fighting Falcons team to make the playoffs was the 1969 Air Force squad, who went 18-6-1, ...

Some might say it would be a miracle if there’s really a 2020 baseball season. But the words baseball and miracle are reserved for just one team, one year -- the Miracle Mets of 1969. Or as their ...

Casey Stengel always said the Mets would win when they put a man on the Moon. Both miracles happened in 1969. The whole world didn’t stop on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the ...