Photos: Latest Addition to Mets Collection

Regular readers of this site might remember that last year I chose not to buy a vintage Mets watch on eBay (long story short, it was a neat watch but in the end I would have been paying $300 for a $10 watch). Well, this time I got my Mets watch. It is a different one, but a much nicer one, in my opinion.

This watch is from Mets Old-Timers Day in 1968 and is said to be quite rare. They apparently gave team employees and perhaps other people these watches. This one belonged to a Mets official named J. Murray.

FullSizeRender (2)I searched my old Mets yearbooks and could not find any mention of him, so he must have been a lower-level employee not worthy of mention in a yearbook.

I paid $245 for…