Associated Press
They will gather again on Saturday in the city they electrified half a century ago, at the first of a year’s worth of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of a miracle. The 1969 Mets, forever young in their minds, will be honored at the New York baseball writers’ dinner, mingling with stars of today — Mookie Betts, Jacob deGrom, Christian Yelich — who are young enough to be their grandsons.
“When I first went to the Mets, Casey Stengel was there,” Cleon Jones, the left fielder, said by telephone from Mobile, Ala. “And Casey Stengel was 75 or 76 years of age.