Winter of the Monarch Frame Color:Black "The Mets lost their first

"The Mets lost their first nine games and were nine and a half games behind

circa 1915

The Intrepid headed for San Francisco the next day for repairs

We can also celebrate our strength and grace and uncanny wisdom

his first year of eligibility for the Cooperstown

Winter of the Monarch Frame Color:Black "The Mets lost their firstA disappearing butterfly makes this poignant image a perfect companion to The Times Opinion article, The Winter of the Monarch, published March 15, 2013. Illustrations have played an instrumental role in The Timess journalistic legacy since December 11, 1861, when we published our first drawings front page cartoons of James Gordon Bennett, rival publisher of The Herald. Today, The Times commissions thousands of original illustrations from freelance