Q. Was there a particular hotel where the New York Mets typically used to stay during spring training during the early 1980s? For instance, do you know where owner Nelson Doubleday used to stay?

A. The hotel that many of the Mets players stayed at in the early 1980s was the Radisson on U.S. 1in Port St. Lucie (10120 S Federal Hwy). It is now a Holiday Inn. It had a beautiful pool with a high waterfall. I also recall other players stayed in short-term rentals in condos or townhouse communities.

Neither this information nor where Nelson Doubleday stayed is in our files. Doubleday would not likely have checked into the Radisson. He, had a large home on exclusive Jupiter Island, just south of here in southern Martin County, so that is prob

ably where he was when on the Treasure Coast if the ownership goes back that far. If he stayed within the city, it logically would have been at the Sandpiper Bay Resort, but there is no evidence of this.

-- Recollection, PSL Historical Society volunteer