Slinging it with ex-Met Pat Zachry near the anniversary of "the trade".

[batmagadanleadoff]

How Mets' Tom Seaver trade turned Pat Zachry's life upside down



https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/how-mets-tom-seaver-trade-turned-pat-zachrys-life-upside-down/https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/how-mets-tom-seaver-trade-turned-pat-zachrys-life-upside-down/





.... including some horrible, tragic revelation that I either never knew about, or once did but have since forgotten. But no excerpts for youse. Click on the link above to get your own excerpts and to give writer Ken Davidoff his click counts.

[Edgy MD]

Zachry once said he got some Getty gift certificates for appearing on Kiner's Korner, and then got rejected at Getty when he tried to use them.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He was an ornery Texas guy who mighta been better were it not for frequent elbow issues. As a rookie with the Reds, he got into it with some autograph-seeking fans and faced an assault charge that was ultimately dropped. I musta also have forgotten the tragic detail in the post report.

[Edgy MD]

First player I remember having DJ-spun walkup music, as the PA blared "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" as he took the mound for his warmups in the first.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: First player I remember having walkup music.

... which was ....?

[Edgy MD]

I edited the post to clarify.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Wasn't Met Warren Spahn's walk-up music Don Henley's Praying for Rain?