The 62 Mets finished 40-120-1.
1955 Nats went 54-101, or 34%. A lot of Nats fans can remember that season, and, even more, those players: Eddie Yost, Pete Runnels, Mickey Vernon, Roy Sievers, Jose Valdivielso, Jim Busby (flailing), Eddie Fitzgerald, Clint Courtney, Harmon Killebrew, Jim Lemon, Carlos Paula (who got hit on the head one night when he lost a flyball in the lights). Pitchers like Bob Porterfield, Mickey McDermott, Dean Stone (who won an All-Star game without throwing an official pitch), prospects like Camilo Pascual and Pedro Ramos, and Chuck Stobbs, who gave up Mickey Mantle's 550 foot homer (maybe the only ball to clear the LF bleachers at Griffith Stadium), Ted Abernathy. Players with names like Spec Shea, Bunky Stewart, and Webbo Clark.
We collected their baseball cards, watched them on Channel 5, WTTG, and listened to the immortals, Arch McDonald (invented "Yankee Clipper" and "Ducks on the pond"), and Bob Wolf. Roy Sievers, from St. Louis, inspired "Joe Hardy", also known as "Shoeless Joes from Hannibal MO". That is the team that gave us this:
