“You gotta be outa your mind. You chose Mookie over Nails and Agee!" “Yeah”, I said, after taking another swallow from my bottle of BUD. "They weren't necessarily the best at their position, good role models or upstanding members of the community. These are the Mets I loved, lived and died with and invested my hope in, since 1962. They’re my all time favorites, excluding of course, those players on the Mets now."
Cleon Jones for a wondrous 1969, Mookie for being the irrepressible Mookie, Straw for his Herculean blasts, HoJo for being able to hit an unhittable fast ball, Harrelson for taking on Pete Rose, Wally for having the dirtiest uniform, Mex for being the greatest defensive 1st baseman I’ve ever seen, Seaver for being Tom Terrific, Piazza for carrying the 2000 Mets and finally, Tug McGraw for “Ya Gotta Believe!"in 1973.
The cache is located in the South Mountain Reservation between South Orange and Northfield avenues. The listed coordinates are for convenient parking in the Tulip Springs picnic area. To find the cache you must first find the Number each player wore as a MET and insert it into the equation below.
N 40° (Jones – 17) (Mookie +4). (Straw – 17) (HoJo – 18) (Harrelson + 2)
W 074° (Backman – 5) (Hernandez -10). (Seaver - 40) (Tug – 45) (Piazza - 24)
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
The Cache, an Ammo Can, is most easily accessed by entering the Orange (Turtle Back) Trail and continuing along the wide carriage road which is parallel to South Orange Avenue. The cache is in an area with variable GPS reception but should be easily found.
Click to go to the South Mountain Conservancy Web page Trail Map
The cache contains:
- FTF Token
- Great Mets Stuff
- Log, Pens & Pencils
We hope you enjoy this cache as much as we did placing it.