Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

Ruth Roberts, a songwriter best known for her cheerful and durable baseball anthem “Meet the Mets,” died on Thursday night at her home in Rye Brook, N.Y. She was 84. The cause was lung cancer, said her brother, Sam Roberts.

It was a tribute to the 1969 New York Mets. Check the song after the jump…

WRITTEN BY PETER KEEPNEWS/NY TIMES & FULL STORY HERE