For the first time in decades, the biggest names from New York Mets lore will gather in Queens to honor the franchise’s history in a friendly game of baseball between stars and fan-favorites alike.
Sluggers Mike Piazza and Darryl Strawberry, aces Dwight Gooden and Pedro Martínez, and mythic figures Endy Chávez and Bartolo Colón will be in attendance with dozens of other Mets veterans from every era of the franchise for the team’s first Old Timers’ Day game since 1994.
The game kicks off 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 27, ahead of the present day-Mets’ game against the Colorado Rockies.
Mets broadcasters and veterans of the 1986 World Series champion team Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling will be competing, along with their ’86 teammates Sid Fernandez, Roger McDowell, Bobby Ojeda, Jesse Orosco, Doug Sisk, Wally Backman, Kevin Elster, Howard Johnson, Ray Knight, Tim Teufel, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli and Mookie Wilson.
Veterans of the 1969 World Series champion Mets planning to attend include Ron Swoboda, Art Shamsky, Cleon Jones and Ed Kranepool. And four former Met managers — Terry Collins, Joe Torre, Willie Randolph and Bobby Valentine — will take part in the festivities.
Here is the full roster:
For the first time in decades, the biggest names from New York Mets lore will gather in Queens to honor the franchise’s history in a friendly game of baseball between stars and fan-favorites alike.
Sluggers Mike Piazza and Darryl Strawberry, aces Dwight Gooden and Pedro Martínez, and mythic figures Endy Chávez and Bartolo Colón will be in attendance with dozens of other Mets veterans from every era of the franchise for the team’s first Old Timers’ Day game since 1994.
The game kicks off 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 27, ahead of the present day-Mets’ game against the Colorado Rockies.
Mets broadcasters and veterans of the 1986 World Series champion team Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling will be competing, along with their ’86 teammates Sid Fernandez, Roger McDowell, Bobby Ojeda, Jesse Orosco, Doug Sisk, Wally Backman, Kevin Elster, Howard Johnson, Ray Knight, Tim Teufel, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli and Mookie Wilson.
Veterans of the 1969 World Series champion Mets planning to attend include Ron Swoboda, Art Shamsky, Cleon Jones and Ed Kranepool. And four former Met managers — Terry Collins, Joe Torre, Willie Randolph and Bobby Valentine — will take part in the festivities.
