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Last Summary Update: 10-17-2019

Da Mets - World Champs?!?
Airdate: Thursday - October 16, 1969

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Well, you know, I wanna tell you. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Pete Delaney - 10-17-2019 ]   
  No foops
The 1969 World Champion New York Mets
100 to 1
Getting Mets History Wrong
The New Mets are the Montreal Expos
The Baltimore Orio'ds
Shep views the last out from an airliner
The perils of the outfield
Shep in Los Angeles
Mets won it with fielding
Ron Swoboda
An explosion of excellence
Tommie Agee
Manhattan reacts
Shep on The Steve  Allen Show
Donn Clendenon
Al Weis
Jerry Grote
Catching
The big play in Game 4
5 Mets to be honored      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:17	speaking of religions, this is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:22	Miller Beer
• 15:27	New York State Apples
• 1634	Great Shanghai

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	No Music Used

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 23:47	Leigh Brown

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Rating

None Yet

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Baseball
• [ 23:47 ]	People		Brown, Leigh

Record: 928 / ID: 19691016W0928

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

Date	Title
October 16, 1969 Recno: 928	Da Mets - World Champs?!?	Original Airing
October 23, 1969 Recno: 6667	Da Mets - World Champs?!?	WGBH Boston Replay

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Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	October 23, 2024

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19691016W0928	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	10-17-2019	Station ID up to date:	No
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	No
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	No
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

Pete Delaney

Notes

Dating Notes

Notes

Source: Jim Clavin

[jim] Shep says he was flying over Shea Stadium returning from Los Angeles just as the last out was made making the Mets the champions. The last game was 10-16-69 Shep was in L.A. to be on the Steve Allen show and talks about listening to the game in the green room - indicates unknown 10/69 Steve Allen appearance.

General Notes

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Technical Notes

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Research Notes

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Max / Schmidco

Max's super secret page of shows never played and not on internet - maybe. . .

Max / Schmidco Notes
No Notes Found

Replays

Mass Backwards

NONE

WBAI Golden Age of Radio

NONE

Yesterday USA

NONE

Dustbin of History!

Replay Date

October 23, 2024

Max / Schmidco Notes
No Notes Found

Other

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Schmidco Sets - 0 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
None Found

Shows Known via Recordings or Lists
(1950 to 1974 Sources 100% Complete - 1975-1977 in process)

2 Known copies from various Sources and Lists (Up to date)

	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

Source Name

Information

Jim Clavin

Running Time: 44:35

Recordee:
25 - Pete Delaney

Timing Reference
Inventory Name: 1969 10 16_W0928_022-552-025 Da Mets - World Champions.mp3
Station: WOR

Comments: Ripped from Dustbin of History recording. Max WBAI ID right at start of Miller Ad

Dustbin of History

Running Time: 53:05

Recordee:
25 - Pete Delaney

Inventory Name: 1969 10 16_W0928_552-025_D2024-10-23 Da Mets - World Champions.mp3
Station: WBAI

Comments: Dustbin of History recording

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