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Cubs historical sleuthing: Shea Stadium edition

Getty Images gives us these details about this photo:

John Milner #28 of the New York Mets stretches to take the throw at first base against the Chicago Cubs during a Major League Baseball game circa 1974 at Shea Stadium in the Queens borough of New York City.

Right away I can tell you that’s not correct. That’s Don Kessinger running to first base, and the only year the Cubs wore the uniforms shown here, with the red-white-and-blue piping on the sleeves, was 1972.

So this photo has to be from that year.

The Cubs played nine games against the Mets at Shea in 1972.