Blackmun and Justice Potter Stewart both followed baseball obsessively. In one oral argument on October 10, 1973, Stewart passed Blackmun a note that read, "V.P. AGNEW JUST RESIGNED!! METS 2 REDS 0." (The game in question was the fifth and deciding game of the 1973 National League Championship Series, and the Mets won it 7-2, sending them to the 1973 World Series.)