It almost slipped through the cracks, almost found its way through the five-hole of our local baseball memory, but thankfully there was Gary Cohen on the television Friday night, just as the Mets were finishing off the Giants at San Francisco\u2019s Oracle Park. He mentioned that April 3 was a fairly significant day in Mets history.<\/p>\n
Yes. Yes, it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Come with me now. Let\u2019s go back 60 years, and travel 3,000 miles west to the Central Valley region of California. Let\u2019s pick up a copy of the\u00a0Fresno Bee newspaper and flip to page 4-B of the Monday, April 4, 1966, edition. That\u2019s the first page of the\u00a0Bee\u2019s sports section.<\/p>\n
If your eyes takes you to the upper-left corner of the page, as eyes often do when looking at a broadsheet newspaper, you\u2019ll see the headline: \u201cHeard Captures Fresno City Golf Title With 289.\u201d This was significant news that Jerry Heard, an 18-year-old freshman at Fresno State (who would go on to win five times on the PGA Tour in a career that spanned 1968-80) won that prestigious local tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It almost slipped through the cracks, almost found its way through the five-hole of our local baseball memory,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20,9,24,55,54,320,56,23626,319,431,428,59095],"class_list":{"0":"post-185783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-open-mike","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-tom-seaver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}