In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets, I’ve been looking at the primary players at each position throughout the teams history. We’ve already looked at the managers, Opening Day starting pitchers, catchers, first basemen, second basemen, and third basemen, as well as all of the Mets’ All-Star representatives. Today, we’ll be looking […]
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Steady Eddie Kranepool got the nod for the All-Star game in 1965, mostly because Ron Hunt was hurt. Although he finished the ’65 season with a .253 average, he was hitting .293 at the break, so I guess it does make a little sense. This would be his only All-Star appearance in his 18 year […]
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Back around the holidays I had made my first checkoutmycards.com purchase. Shortly after that, I tried my luck with sportlots.com. Then I wrote a post comparing and contrasting the two experiences. My initial verdict was that Check Out My Cards seemed a bit more suited to scoring relics and refractors and autographs and fancy cards […]
Tags: 1962 Topps, 1963 Topps, 1964 Bazooka Stamps, 1964 Topps, 1965 Topps, 1965 Topps Embossed, 1966 Topps, 1967 Topps, 1968 Topps, Al Weis, Amado Samuel, Art Shamsky, Bart Shirley, Bill Wakefield, Bob Hendley, Bobby Klaus, Charlie Neal, Cleon Jones, Darrell Sutherland, Don Cardwell, Don Shaw, Duke Snoder, Ed Bressoud, Ed Kranepool, Ernie Bowman, George Altman, Gil Hodges, Greg Goossen, John Stephenson, Johnny Lewis, Rob Gardner, Ron Hunt, Ron Taylor, Roy McMillan, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw
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