Speakes Hopes Mets Will Behave During White House Visit

Baseball’s world champion New York Mets will visit the White House next week, spokesman Larry Speakes said today, and he hopes they behave themselves.

Speakes told reporters aboard Air Force One that President Reagan did not call the Mets after their Monday-night victory in the seventh game of the series because it was so late and he had been up very late two previous nights.

Speakes said Reagan “watched some of it” and called Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth to invite the Mets next week.

“I hope they don’t do to the White House what they did to Rusty’s restaurant in New York,” Speakes said.

He was referring to a boisterous post-victory party in an East Side restaurant owned by former Met Rusty Staub.