Hofstra University Holds Amazin' 3-Day Conference On Mets

NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — As their first manager, Casey Stengel, might have said: Simply Amazin'.

The Mets are the subject of a three-day academic conference currently taking place at Hofstra University.

The conference started Thursday and will take a look at the team's 50-year history in New York. The Mets were created just four years after the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants fled to California in 1958.

Hofstra described the Mets as "one of the most popular and culturally significant baseball franchises" on the event website, and promised to "consider all aspects of the history and culture of the team."

The conference features former players from Rusty Staub to Ed Kranepool. There will be panel discussions by sports journalists, baseball historians, bloggers and biographers.

Topics include: "Where were you in '62?"

Another is titled: "Mets-merized: The Mets, Media and Cultural Literacy."

For the cerebral fan, there's "Met(aphors) and Met(aphysics): Poetry Reading."

The conference runs through Saturday in Hempstead, Long Island.

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