I hated the Mets ( as a 10 year old, in 1969) because they had blown past the Cubs to get there and thought that they stood no chance of beating that Orioles team. Years later, I realize that they were a team who made their own destiny and the story of their miracle year contained everything that is great about baseball. The next year the Birds were right back there putting one on the first great "Big Red Machine" team. In 71, they were back against Clemente's Pirates. What a team they had and what a great era for baseball.

I loved it when every World Series game was played in daylight. Yes, I am familiar with the reasons MLB gives for why they now play all WS games at night, but I do not agree with them. I'm glad I can remember a better time, when a World Series champion was crowned at 4 pm rather than 1 am.

I was 12 and my younger brother was 10 years old. I was the sports fan, he wasn't. At the beginning o the season, we made a $1 bet who would win the World Series. I chose the Yankees and he chose the Mets. I told him, "No way! They aren't a very good team." I was more-thn-happy for him when I handed him that dollar. 1969- A truly Amazing year!

Davey Johnson makes last out in 69 and manages the team to win the 86' series

Consider this. In 1965, the Mets had the first draft pick and passed up the best college player in the country, one Reggie Jackson, for a non-entity named Steve Chilcott. Jackson was grabbed by the delighted Oakland A's and the rest was history. In 1966, the Mets had Paul Blair in their farm system and gave him away to the Orioles, where he became a Golden Glove centerfielder and a fine hitter. In 1968, the Mets gave away a young Amos Otis to the Red Sox, where he went on to stardom as a third baseman. Of course, then there was the Kenny Singleton, Tim Foli and Mike Jorgensen trade for Rusty Staub, a fine player, but whom the Met unloaded a few years later for washed up Mickey Lolich. The topper was the Nolan Ryan for washed up Jim Fregosi trade in 1974. So the Mets could have had an outfield of Cleon Jones, Paul Blair and Reggie Jackson, an infield with Kenny Singleton and Amos Otis at the ends, (what a line-up!)and a pitching staff of Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Nolan Ryan, Gary Gentry and Tug McGraw, Ron Taylor, Dick Selma, Don Cardwell and Jim McAndrew. Mike Jorgensen, Ed Kraepool, Ron Swobada and Tim Foli would have been fine backups. We are talking dynasty here. Of course, the Mets gave away Tom Seaver in the late 1970's when he was still in his prime. No team in baseball history had more inept senior management than the Mets.

Such a natural sound effect of the bat hitting the ball. Definitely not someone with a clapper and a microphone.

I remember crystal clear watching The Mets on TV in all of 1969. I was 12 in 1969, living in Brooklyn, NY..Baltimore was like.."Who are these Mets? How can we have a problem with them?.."We're superstars. We're bigger and badder..We look better on paper. No one outside of NY ever heard of those guys..Why should we have a problem with them?" Well I figure, if you're an underdog team with good players, you might need a little help to win a World Series..Like a little World Series MAGIC. And the other team has to have a measley little bad week..Bill Buckner catches that ball every time in a regular season game..Magic..So who were those 1969 Mets..Everyone knew after this series here. THEY were Superstars..Like Joe Nameth and The Jets in '69..Like the 1986 Mets..And those Cubs in 2016..And The Red Sox after that curse was finally lifted..The Mets were my favorites.The Yankees were my favorites. In The 70s especially..And before and after. My dad took me to many games when I was a kid..But only when they played Detroit or Boston. And when The Mets played The Cubs or The Braves..We were supposed to hate those teams..It was a law in NY..After awhile I was like..Hell..Can't The Red Sox finally win a World Series..The freaking Yankess won a hundred times no magic..They just win....But in 1986 I loved seeing Wade Boggs crying in the Red Sox dugout after that game. Mets Magic..I go for the World Series magic..Those Cubs games in 2016..The Big Red Machine, The 1979 Pirates. Red Sox 2004. Just some awesome stuff..So here it was 1969.. My first experience of World Series Magic. The Miracle Mets. The Amazing Mets. Same as 1986..It felt exactly the same..Only I was like 29 in '86....MAGIC..Like when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat..I love that stuff. lol. Can't wait till The Mets do it again frankny65yroldwhitekid

When they take out Koosman, they show pennants of the Yankees..Red Sox..and Oakland...3 teams that would face the Mets in the World Series. The Mets would lose to the A's and the Yankees..but beat Boston.

The 1969 New York Mets are the first expansion team to win a World Series.

Used to root for rain delays on Mets broadcasts so they’d show this film.

Just like our Tigers had a magical year n 1968....1969 was magical for the Mets. What an era for baseball...it don't get much better than that.

All these years later......Still Amazing. Probably more.

jerry koosman one of the most underrated pitchers of his era

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In 1969, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in the Superbowl, the New York Knicks upset the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA playoffs, and the Mets upset the favored Baltimore Orioles in the Wold Series. A true trifecta!

Thank you! This is my favorite of all the World Series highlight films and I've been looking for it for several years.

1969 had several miracles performed. The Jets winning the SuperBowl, man landing on the moon, and the Mets winning the World Series.

Ron Swoboda's catch is almost physically impossible. That's the greatest catch of ALL TIME.

I was six years old when Nolan Ryan pitched in the World Series, and I was 30 when he finally retired in 1993. I spent my childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood watching him pitch, and he just seemed to always be around my entire life. Even though he's been retired for almost 27 years, he's still a big presence in the game.