"Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop like this one, I'm not looking for chairs or lamps. My interests are a little more specialized: a collectible whiskey decanter shaped like the Superdome, for instance, or a 1976 tabloid spread about Watergate witnesses who died under strange circumstances."
"Josh Levin The New York Mets have been my favorite baseball team since I was six years old and I saw them at the top of the standings in the sports page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. That was 1986, one of two years in the last 63 when becoming a Mets fan might've felt like a wise decision. Regardless, I stuck with it and steeped myself in Mets lore-"
A collector visited an antique store in a Washington, D.C., suburb while seeking specialized memorabilia such as collectible decanters and political ephemera. The shop contained sports yearbooks, posters, and campaign items with slogans like "Youth for Kennedy" and "Jimmy Carter 76." The collector noticed a small white button with green text reading "Extremism in Defense of the Mets Is No Vice" and "Huckle for President." The button was purchased for $12.50. The collector set out to research who created the button, who manufactured it, and who Huckle might be. The collector has been a Mets fan since 1986.
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