Category Archives: ’69 Mets

Mets Need To Wear Jersey Patch to Honor Bud Harrelson This Year

26 Feb

Bud Harrelson

A few days ago the Boston Red Sox announced that they’d be wearing a patch this season to honor Tim Wakefield, the longtime Sox knuckleballer who passed away this offseason. Yet, the Mets haven’t said a word about honoring former player, coach and manager Bud Harrelson, who passed away last month. Is something amiss here? Granted, Harrelson wasn’t as beloved a Met as say a Gary Carter or Tom Seaver. But he did spend 13 years in NY, was a 2x champ (as player and coach) and was a 2x All-Star who spent a majority of his professional career with the club in a variety of capacities. Owner, Steve Cohen came to the Mets stating that he wants to embrace the team’s past and he’s done a pretty good job with that so far. Now he needs to do the right thing and honor Harrelson.

Tom Seaver, The Greatest Mets Player Ever, Passes Away At 75

2 Sep

I can still remember how excited I was when the Mets got Seaver back in 1983 and how weird it was to see him in the dugout during the ’86 World Series as a Red Sox. 3 Cy Young’s, a World Series ring, a no-hitter, 300-plus wins, lifetime ERA less than 3.00, Mets and Yankees broadcaster, a successful career after baseball with his vineyard in California and beloved by family, friends and of course Mets fans like me. He earned his Franchise nickname. RIP to the greatest Met ever.

Ed Kranepool Still Waiting For Kidney Donor

7 Feb

Ed Kranepool
Newsday.com:

The most difficult moment in Ed Kranepool’s long wait for a kidney transplant came only about a month ago. Some two years after it was determined the Mets icon would need one, a friend from Florida had volunteered and testing proved him a match. Kranepool was hosting him at his Long Island home when they decided on a date and called to schedule the procedure for the first week of January.

That’s when the bad news came. The friend had a prostate condition that ruled him out.

“I was devastated,” Kranepool said Wednesday night before he and Art Shamsky appeared at the Newsday campus for an event marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Miracle Mets and previewing the upcoming baseball season. “It sets you back because you have all your hopes up and you’ve finally gotten a match . . . It’s really hard when it is the most important thing to you.”

The 74-year-old Kranepool said friends tell him he “looks very good, which is better than I probably feel” and he regained his optimistic outlook after a couple days. He remains on a waiting list and has resisted dialysis and the lifestyle change it would bring.