I have a sneaky suspicion that all of us who value sports secretly wish that they could have partnered up with Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz.

Who are Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz, you ask?

They wrote “Meet the Mets.”

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Theirs was a songwriting collaboration that produced many other tunes, some of which you may also know — notably “I Love Mickey,” Teresa Brewer’s ode to Mickey Mantle, which was all the rage in the summer of 1957. But it was “Meet the Mets” that made them immortal.