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?

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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.

It certainly made Dave Jay Gerstein feel that way, growing up in Flushing and then in Jersey, a kid who loved football, and rock and roll, and often wondered: “Why don’t the Jets have an anthem?”…{ai:summary}Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz, the duo behind Meet the Mets, forged a lasting sports-song partnership, also penning I Love Mickey for Mickey Mantle.The piece ties their legacy to current Jets coverage by Brian Costello for Sports+ subscribers—sign up now.
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Jets deserve their own anthem — and one man might already have the answer

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