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George Steinbrenner Was Right to Fear the Mets as Much as the Red Sox

used to be a time when New York belonged to the New York Mets. From the late 1960s through the early 1970s, they were New York's top team.

That changed when the New York Yankees won three consecutive pennants and two consecutive World Series from 1976-78. But during the middle 1980s, the Mets challenge returned.

George Steinbrenner considered the Mets as great a threat to the Yankees supremacy as the threat the Boston Red Sox presented.

Steinbrenner tried to play down his concern about the Mets, but he failed miserably.

The year was 1985. The Mets opened the season at Shea Stadium and won their first five games, which was not a good thing for Steinbrenner.

The Yankees owner expressed his concern about the American ...

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