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Category: ’69 Mets
Mets Need To Wear Jersey Patch to Honor Bud Harrelson This Year
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?…
Buddy Harrelson R.I.P.
Harrelson couldn’t hit much (tho he was a two-time All-star) and it’s lazy to just associate him with the infamous fight he had with Pete Rose during the 1973 NLCS. But he was pretty good defensively, loved by teammates and fans, managed the Mets for a couple of years and of course, was a world…
Tom Seaver, The Greatest Mets Player Ever, Passes Away At 75
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…
Every Mets Pennant Clinch
SNY Podcast Interviews ’69 Mets Star Cleon Jones
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Ed Kranepool To Get Kidney Transplant
Tom Seaver: “I loved what I did for a living”; Mets Will Change Citi Field Address To Honor Seaver
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Tom Seaver Diagnosed with Dementia
Sad news for the greatest player to ever wear a Mets uniform. Prayers and best wishes to the Seaver family.
Ed Kranepool Still Waiting For Kidney Donor
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…