Read full article: It’s National Doughnut Day 2025! Here’s where to get free doughnuts A Brit of Magic performs at The Magic Saloon this week in downtown San Antonio. NEW YORK – Jerry Grote, the ...

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ON A 68-DEGREE Saturday in late October, Art Shamsky left his apartment to see a friend. He grabbed a baseball and an old glove, and took the subway to a deserted train car on the Long Island Rail ...

The New York Mets had been a woeful franchise during their first seven years, never finishing higher than ninth in their division. That changed on this day in 1969, when they defeated the Baltimore ...

“The legacy of the 1969 Mets is how no other team in baseball history brought a city and country to pull together like that one during one of the country’s worst periods,” Shamsky said in an email.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Grote, the catcher who helped transform the New York Mets from a perennial loser into the 1969 World Series champion, died Sunday. He was 81. Grote had suffered from heart issues ...

NEW YORK — Jerry Grote, the catcher who helped transform the New York Mets from perennial losers into the 1969 World Series champions, died Sunday. He was 81. Grote had suffered from heart issues and ...