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New York State Quarters Featuring Six Players from the 1986 New York Mets
Team Available Exclusively at Dunkin' Donuts Stores

FLUSHING, N.Y. and CANTON, Mass., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York
Mets and Dunkin' Donuts today announced the launch of a commemorative
quarter series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World
Championship team. Featuring color images of six players from the '86 Mets
team -- Darryl Strawberry, Mookie Wilson, Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra, Sid
Fernandez, and Keith Hernandez -- the New York State quarters will be
available for three weeks, exclusively at participating Dunkin' Donuts
stores beginning Monday, June 19.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060616/NYF022LOGO )
The quarters are available for a suggested retail price of $2.99 each
with any Dunkin' Donuts purchase at participating stores throughout the
area from June 19 -- July 9. Each week, two different players will be
featured including Mookie Wilson and Lenny Dykstra (June 19), Keith
Hernandez and Sid Fernandez (June 26), and Gary Carter and Darryl
Strawberry (July 3). The first 25,000 Mets fans attending tonight's game
against the Baltimore Orioles at Shea Stadium receive a free team quarter
not available in stores, along with a cardboard coin carrier to collect the
remaining quarters.
"Dunkin' Donuts is honored to partner with the New York Mets to help
New Yorkers relive the glory and excitement of one of the sport's most
beloved teams," said Al Hodges, Regional Vice President, Dunkin' Donuts.
"We are pleased to bring this unique, commemorative collector's item to
Mets fans everywhere and to celebrate the players that brought energy and
excitement 20 years ago."
"The 1986 Mets made an indelible mark on the baseball and New York
sports scene, capturing the hearts of fans like few other teams in the
history of sports," said Dave Howard, Executive Vice President, Business
Operations, New York Mets. "This special partnership with Dunkin' Donuts
launches an exciting summerlong series of events and promotions tied to the
20th anniversary of the World Championship, providing fans another way to
connect their excitement for the current season to the historic
achievements of 1986."
About Dunkin' Donuts
Founded in 1950, today Dunkin' Donuts is the number one retailer of
coffee-by-the-cup in America, selling 2.7 million cups a day, nearly one
billion cups a year. Dunkin' Donuts is also the largest coffee and baked
goods chain in the world and sells more donuts, coffee, and bagels than any
other quick service restaurant in America. Dunkin' Donuts has more than
6,700 shops in 29 countries worldwide. Based in Canton, Massachusetts,
Dunkin' Donuts is a subsidiary of Dunkin' Brands, Inc. For more
information, visit http://www.DunkinDonuts.com.

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  • coinmickeycoinmickey Posts: 767 ✭✭
    The quarters are available for a suggested retail price of $2.99 each

    Cool...$3 for a colorized quarter. I'm there.....image

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    Rufus T. Firefly: How would you like a job in the mint?

    Chicolini: Mint? No, no, I no like a mint. Uh - what other flavor you got?



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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wonder if they'll be using all NY quarters.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • OldReadingOldReading Posts: 129
    the New York State quarters will be available for three weeks, exclusively at participating Dunkin' Donuts stores beginning Monday, June 19.



    << <i>I wonder if they'll be using all NY quarters. >>

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    ---Larry---

    More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits." - John Nelson.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gee, maybe they'll do the 1908 Cubs on an Illinois quarter here.......
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  • rgl1345rgl1345 Posts: 674
    Phone 1-800- has beenimage


    NYY fan
  • CoindexterCoindexter Posts: 1,074
    Notice to all:

    Michigan posted this POSITIVE numismatic story.

    Sign me up for the Lenny Dykstra.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Gee, maybe they'll do the 1908 Cubs on an Illinois quarter here....... >>

    Would they dare to put Fred Merkle on one of the coins?
  • OldReadingOldReading Posts: 129


    << <i>Notice to all:

    Michigan posted this POSITIVE numismatic story.

    Sign me up for the Lenny Dykstra. >>



    I actually read it a second time because I figured the first time I must had missed the part about the murder or the stolen merchandise.
    ---Larry---

    More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits." - John Nelson.
  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭✭
    The Mets are one of sports' most beloved teams?

    Mutilating US coinage with colorized photos?

    Historic 1986 achievement?

    Lenny "it's just a vitamin, honest" Dykstra?

    And this was a positive thread?

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    Joe
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  • ttxpttxp Posts: 576
    I have to admit I would have guessed that D&D sold more cups of coffee a day than the quoted amount?



    << <i>number one retailer of coffee-by-the-cup in America, selling 2.7 million cups a day >>

    "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back"
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I was with one of my Canadian colleagues the other day and asked if he had one of those Canadian pink ribbon quarters. I was offering a dollar for it. Unfortunately he did not have any on him. image
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sign me up for the Choking Calvin Schiraldi quarter. image
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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭


    << <i>The Mets are one of sports' most beloved teams?

    Mutilating US coinage with colorized photos?

    Historic 1986 achievement?

    Lenny "it's just a vitamin, honest" Dykstra?

    And this was a positive thread?

    image
    Joe >>




    Well, nobody got murdered, convicted, robbed or charged with a crime.

    Consider it progress at least. image
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, lets wait to see what the Toledo Blade has to say about them......
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    .
    Hey Michigan.....you never answered me as to hows come you are wearing Green Bay Packer colors with a name like "Michigan????"
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    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," due out late 2025.
  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭


    << <i>Well, lets wait to see what the Toledo Blade has to say about them......
    .
    .
    Hey Michigan.....you never answered me as to hows come you are wearing Green Bay Packer colors with a name like "Michigan????"
    .
    TD >>




    Nobody on the Detroit Lions is worth honoring. image
  • fcfc Posts: 12,796 ✭✭✭
    the modern fixation with sport "heroes" is sad.
    marketing layered upon marketing. imagine dunkin "i am fat"
    donuts wanting to make their company seem "honorable"
    through advertising that gives the image they seek.

    i for one, will not be going to dunkin donuts to pick up
    some silly trinketts. their coffee sucks and is overpriced.

    nuff said image

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,959 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Well, lets wait to see what the Toledo Blade has to say about them......
    .
    .
    Hey Michigan.....you never answered me as to hows come you are wearing Green Bay Packer colors with a name like "Michigan????"
    .
    TD >>




    Nobody on the Detroit Lions is worth honoring. image >>



    I thot maybe you went to Michigan State. It is a wonderful school. My sister-in-law went there, and she knows everything!!!!!!!
    LOL
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Author "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," due out late 2025.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,517 ✭✭✭✭✭
    without Bill Buckner on the quarter it will not be an appropriate tribute to the Mets' victory in 86
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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,135 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> their coffee sucks and is overpriced.

    nuff said image >>



    I think you have DD confused with Starbucks, or more appropriately, "Fourbucks".
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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 13,135 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>without Bill Buckner on the quarter it will not be an appropriate tribute to the Mets' victory in 86 >>



    The game was already tied at that point.

    Both Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley had the lead and were one strike from ending it. They are the real goats IMO. Hell, the Mets should give away golden dollars honoring Schiraldi and Stanley's contributions to the Mets winning the Series.
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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭


    << <i>without Bill Buckner on the quarter it will not be an appropriate tribute to the Mets' victory in 86 >>




    I remember seeing that on TV. My reaction "Oh my God, I can't believe he bobbled the ball".

    The error still follows him around to this day, Buckner is now a salesman for some company and many
    times when he introduces himself he still hears "Aren't you the guy on the Red Sox who............" well you know the rest. image

    One time he got into a fist fight at a little league game his son was playing in when one of the dads started taunting
    him about the famous error. He got professional help in dealing with the situation and now says that he is at peace
    with himself over the whole thing and it no longer bothers him when people bring it up.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,517 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I can't believe he bobbled the ball >>



    I wish he bobbled it...he let it flow through the five hole without even coming close to catching it. Boston fans hold grudges, just ask Grady Little.
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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I can't believe he bobbled the ball >>



    I wish he bobbled it...he let it flow through the five hole without even coming close to catching it. Boston fans hold grudges, just ask Grady Little. >>




    You are right, bobbled was not the right word. "Missed" was what he did.
  • PetardedPetarded Posts: 406
    Schiraldi and Stanley not withstanding, Buckner violated the first rule that ALL Little Leaguers are taught: KEEP YOUR GLOVE ON THE GROUND! However, we will never know, as he never even bent over...almost like he was on stilts....and if you remember that series, they already had named Bruce Hurst as the MVP of the World Series on the Mets Diamondvision screen, horses lined up on the 1st and 3rd base lines, cops in numbers, champagne in the Sox clubhouse....oh my, I could go on and on....

    If the dont put Buckner on it, as Barndog said, they should at LEAST have him there for the ceremony...after all, no matter WHAT other players did or didnt do, pass ball or not, that was THE play (just another in the long line) that literally handed the Mets the Series that year.
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    ""i for one, will not be going to dunkin donuts to pick up
    some silly trinketts. their coffee sucks and is overpriced""

    Dunkin Donuts is swill, and is priced as such. Starbucks is quality and you pay through the nose for it... I much prefer the independents and local coffee shops as well as Red Barn Coffee Roasters (if you can find em!)

    ...so will the quarters featuring the mets come with an ounce of cocaine to snort off of dwight goodens face?
  • BigSwedeBigSwede Posts: 4
    Even if Buckner would have caught the ball in his glove, he was too far back to beat the runner to the bag since he was more or less crippled by injuries, and the pitcher would not have made it to the bag in time either. So Buckner's mistake didn't really matter.
    The Red Sox' pitchers performance at the end of the game on the other hand...
  • PetardedPetarded Posts: 406
    Bigswede....very good point....WHY did a crippled guy that looked like he walked on stilts even PLAY in a game like that? Those that live where I live KNOW why (I live closer to Boston than probably anyone on these boards, yet we ALL cut and bled)...anyone that wants to know why, that DOESNT know, I will be happy to share it with you...and the WHY came from the horse's (managers) mouth..........it actually doesnt matter that there were 100 reasons (all valid reasons) WHY they lost it, it matters that they DID lose it...that they found yet ANOTHER way to lose it..."Pesky held on to the ball!"..."Armbrister ran into Fisk"...."Bucky Bleepin' Dent"....the list goes on and on..........
  • rb345rb345 Posts: 64 ✭
    Some thoughts on the above:



    1. the Dunkin Donuts in my Coop building at 93rd Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan has been
    robbed at gunpoint at least six times since it opened less than one year ago. Citibank has an
    ATM one and one-half blocks further downtown, but not everybody likes to walk that far,
    especially at night, when the robberies occur.



    2. I watched Bill Buckner's play at a local bar in West Greenwich Village, went out happy and got
    mugged two blocks away by two guys with a 45 who stuck it into me and removed money from
    five or six different shirt and pants pockets while numerous liberals walked by laughing.



    3. Bill Buckner was an ex-Dodger and his series-turning error was seen by us Dodger fans as simply
    an extension of the Dodgers time-honored tradition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,
    think Ralph Brance in 1951, the dropped third strike of 1941, their ninth inning death in 1962.







  • CoindexterCoindexter Posts: 1,074


    << <i>...so will the quarters featuring the mets come with an ounce of cocaine to snort off of dwight goodens face? >>



    You can fit an ounce of yay on a quarter?

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