Ultimate Mets Database: Game of September 27, 1963

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September 26, 1963
Dodgers 5, Mets 4 1963 Regular Season Game 160
September 27, 1963
Mets 10, Colt .45's 3 Next Game:
September 28, 1963
Colt .45's 9, Mets 1

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METS FANS SHARE THEIR MEMORIES OF THE SEPTEMBER 27, 1963 GAME:

Bob P
January 27, 2004
The Colt .45s start nine rookies, including 20- year-old Jerry Grote, 19-year-old Rusty Staub, 20- year-old Joe Morgan, and 21-year-old Jim Wynn.

Houston's starting pitcher is 17-year-old Jay Dahl, who makes what will turn out to be his only major league appearance. Dahl is killed in a car accident in June 1965 without ever making it back to the majors.

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Feat Fan
April 9, 2004
In the closing series of their sophomore season, the fledgling Houston Colt .45s faced flagging attendance.

In an effort to bolster gate receipts, the front office decided to try something new: field a team composed entirely of rookies. No major league team had tried it before, and none has done so since. It was a unique occurrence in the history of Major League Baseball.

Two days before the end of the regular season, on September 27, 1963, at Colt Stadium in a game against the New York Mets, the Colt .45s put an all-rookie team on the field. Their average age was 19. It was MLB's youngest-ever starting lineup.

Jackson S, ss Morgan J, 2b Wynn J, cf Staub R, 1b Pointer A, rf Davis B, Vaughan G, 3b Grote J, c Dahl J

Aaron Pointer went back to the minors and has since become an NFL head linesman. His four sisters (Ruth, Anita, Bonnie, and June) are known today as the Pointer Sisters.

Jay Dahl went back to the minors, but was killed in a 1965 car accident in North Carolina at the age of 19.

Ed K
March 5, 2008
Note that Jerry Grote got his first major league hit in this game - a single off Al Jackson.

It was Jackson's last start of the 1963 season and the win gave him a 13-17 record which is pretty amazing on a team that finished 51- 111.

NYB Buff
August 28, 2023
This was the night the Houston Colt .45s had nine rookies in their starting lineup. Three of them (Morgan, Staub and Grote) would play in the National League Championship Series between the Mets and Reds ten years later. The game also featured the major league debut of Houston reliever Joe Hoerner, who would pitch for seven different teams over fourteen seasons.

There's irony in the fact that Dick Drott was the .45s' pitcher on the mound for the ninth inning. While the four previous Houston hurlers in the game were rookies, Drott was at the opposite end of things. He appeared in the 176th and final game of his seven-year major league career.

For the Mets, the win was their 51st and last of the season.

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