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It was hot and muddy, and there wasn’t enough to eat or drink.
That, at least, is the way Jay Schreiber, a former deputy sports editor for The New York Times, remembered the Woodstock music festival in 1969.
While he was there, the Mets, the humorously bad National League team that had curiously started to play better that summer, had a doubleheader scheduled against the San Diego Padres in Flushing, Queens.