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Collecting fun Mets stuff

41Forever May 24 2018 11:36 PM

My Funko Pop! Noah Syndergaard arrived today. I don't get many collectibles any more, sticking to the basic things like yearbooks and schedules. But I thought this was pretty fun.

dgwphotography May 25 2018 01:14 AM Re: Collecting fun Mets stuff

Cool! I’m waiting for my preorder to arrive

cooby May 25 2018 01:38 AM Re: Collecting fun Mets stuff

I have a nightlight and s 70s Mets dachshund. If I dig around I’d find more

Edgy MD May 25 2018 03:08 PM Re: Collecting fun Mets stuff

It's almost exclusively the literature for me. The library building. I've tried to get all the media guides. (Don't ask about the prices on thee ones from the Willard Mullin era.) And then I like to try and get all memoirs from guys who played with the Mets. Even nominal figures, like Richie Ashburn, who may devote less than a chapter to his Mets tenure. Beyond that, I try and collect all the books about Mets figures. But there are about 100 gifty-type books along the lines of The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra, most of them redundant, and few of them concerned with distinguishing truth from legend. But some of the funner stuff can be the lightweight mythmaking stuff, like A Boys Scout's Guide to Tom Seaver, or that shitty DiGiornio's Mets comic book. I've started and failed to catalog it all at least three times. And the proliferation of fan-written, vanity-press stuff can be depressing for a completionist, because some bloggers-turned-book-authors are great, but some are real tools.