2007-11-27 09:19:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
First off, the Cubs did not have an "overwhelming lead". It was 4.5 with a month to go. The Mets won by EIGHT games! They went 24-8 in Sept and Oct. The Cubs played bad but even if they played decent, the Mets still would have won. They swept the Braves and faced the Orioles in the World Series. Few gave them any chance to win. The O's had great pitching and the Robinson duo. The "Miracle Mets" won 4 games to 1.
2007-11-27 22:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by WindyCityCubs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Miracle was that they won at all. In 1962, as an expansion team, they set the record for futility, losing 120 games. In less than a decade, they were in the race. The Cubs had a huge lead, but as usual let it slip away and the Amazin' Mets plowed forward and won it. Then, in the first year of the League Championship Series, they swept the Braves in spite of Hank Aaron homering in every game.
They did all of this only to face the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Many 'experts' predicted that the Orioles would sweep them. The O's won game one and then, in 4 tough games, the Mets won the championship. Hollywood could not have written the script. No one would have believed it.
2007-11-27 10:40:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
After being the most pathetic team in baseball from their inaugural season on, they won the division, the pennant, and the World Series. This was in the days before expansion teams could sign talented free agents, so their rise from 120 losses in 1962 to 100 wins and a title in 1969 was truly amazing. Of course, drafting Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman helped.
2007-11-27 10:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They won it all -- the division title, the National League pennant, the World Series (over a much-better-on-paper Baltimore team).
They were supposed to suck, as a fairly young expansion team (founded 1962) tends to do. They didn't, and went all the way.
The Amazin' Miracle Mets.
2007-11-27 09:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They won the whole shebang, after having a seven year history of nothing but failure. And they beat a heavily favored Baltimore team in the process.
I mean, imagine the Tampa Bay Devil Rays winning 100 games next year and then beating the Yankees or Boston in 5 games in the ALCS. That's kind of what it was like.
2007-11-27 13:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by koreaguy12 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Cubs had a overwhelming lead in the NL East and the Mets came back to take the division and win the NLCS and WS.
2007-11-27 09:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by pricehillsaint 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They cheated and beat the Cubs.
2007-11-27 09:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by thinking-guru 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋