Word: marv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called the Mets. They were also called the Amazin' Mets, because they did not play baseball very well. They were, as everyone knows, terrible. But the people of Flushing Meadow loved them; they loved the antics performed by the Amazin's and they loved their names: Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Hot Rod Kanehl, Choo Choo Coleman. The people went to Shea Stadium, where the Mets booted away their home games and waved banners that proclaimed LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING-IT'S THE ONLY THING...
Marvelous Marv departed early in 1963, but the Mets' maladies lingered. The humor began to wear a little thin ?at least in the clubhouse. "It was no fun, no laughs at all," recalls Jones, who played in six games that year. "Imagine walking into a locker room before a game and hearing guys ask, 'Well, who's going to blow it for us today?' Or people referring to you as the Ringling Brothers Circus. I was too embarrassed to show my face in public." For those who groused about their station in life, Casey conjured a classic reply...
...Hingham Hash" Levy zinged and zanged expertly about the initial hassock. "Marvelous Marv" Allison contributed sandals, a beard and two clean hits. George "Marathoner" Amick so scared the CRIMSON that only one rightie pulled a Nieman slow pitch all afternoon. And Yardley slapped a triple to ornament his game-winning bingle...
...That's what I told her. But I rain into Marv Johnson...
...What It Takes, Marv Johnson...