Reliving Mets’ mysterious black cat game five decades later

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A black cat visits the Cubs dugout at Shea Stadium during a key pennant-race game on Sept. 9, 1969. The Mets won that game 7-1 and stormed past Chicago to win the division and then captured the World Series.This is the first of a five-part series honoring the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Miracle Mets:

Which do you believe in more: miracles, or the bad-luck superstition surrounding black cats?

Barely a decade before the former became indelibly etched in the memories of sports fans across the world, the 1969 Miracle Mets amazin’ly captured the hearts and imaginations of New Yorkers with one of the most unexpected championships in the city’s storied sports history.

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