Bill Buckner, one of the finest hitters of his generation, died Monday morning at the age of 69. Buckner recorded 2,715 base hits in a career that touched four different decades. He won the National League batting title in 1980, drove in more than a hundred runs three separate […]
 
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 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 World Series, An Appreciation, Bill Buckner, Moment of Silence Travis d’Arnaud once said something for de facto public consumption maybe only I caught. Perhaps Travis would appreciate my use of the past tense of catch in the previous sentence. He’d probably appreciate more “will catch” in the sentence that begins the next paragraph of his career, wherever […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Catchers, Injuries, Mets Catchers, Travis d'Arnaud Dave Roberts was out of position. Not the David Leonard Roberts who played 16 games at first base and in the outfield as an expansion Colt .45 in 1962, a year ahead of the Houston arrivals of Joe Leonard Morgan and Daniel Joseph Staub. Not the David […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Marty Noble, Moment of Silence On Wednesday morning, March 13, a bright, warm Florida day, Jeffrey M. Hysen woke up with a squirrel in his stomach. In his good life as a baseball fan, there had never been a month quite like this one. In the next few hours he was going to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Dan Jenkins, Moment of Silence, Spring Training Tom Seaver is no longer a public figure. Lyme disease and its long-term effects have assured we won’t see him when the living members of the 1969 Mets gather at Citi Field in late June to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a world championship that Seaver never viewed as […] Frank Robinson managed among us not so long ago, in 2005 and 2006, skippering the Washington Nationals upon their transfer from Montreal. As Mets fans, we mostly rolled our eyes at or rooted against Robinson when he poked his head out of the RFK or Shea dugout. […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2006 Mets, An Appreciation, Frank Robinson, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Orioles In a “win now” world, give it up for a Met who helped us win then, Wilmer Flores. Brodie Van Wagenen sure did. Actually, he gave up Wilmer Flores, authorizing the non-tender of the cuddliest of Mets on Friday somewhere between his high-stakes wheeling and go-for-it dealing.
No better baseball clubhouse existed during this decade than the one you’d find on East Eleventh Street in Manhattan, just west of Broadway. That was the physical location of Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, where Jay Goldberg — owner, manager, Wright-level captain — steered his ship to nothing but […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Jay Goldberg I was going to bemoan that we can never keep a splendid team together, but we kept Howie Rose and Josh Lewin together for seven fun-filled seasons, making them the longest-running Mets radio tandem since the Hall of Fame duo of Bob Murphy (Frick Award, 1994) and […] It was a June evening, the season before this last one, at Citi Field, by one of those tables out beyond center field where you stand and you chat and you chew. The combination momentarily got the best of me as a crumb went down the wrong […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Stats for Nuts, Terry Pendleton, William Goldman, Willie McGee |
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