It all started rather innocuously, a birthday present from his uncle Ronnie. The gift was a Mets jacket.
Little Tommy Miuccio was just 5 years old. The year was 1986.
He doesn’t remember much about that World Series, although he eventually learned all about it. What over-the-top Mets fan hasn’t?
Miuccio, now 34 and the father of two daughters, remembers his kindergarten teacher wheeling a big television into the classroom so the kids could watch the Mets parade up the Canyon of Heroes that October.
But Miuccio fell in love with the Mets the minute he unwrapped that blue jacket.