RIP Dan Reilly, 1938-2021

[G-Fafif]

Dan Reilly, who originated Mr. Met as a living, breathing, walking if not talking character, has died at 83. He published a really engaging memoir about the experience in the mid-2000s.



https://newyorkmets.medium.com/original-mr-met-dan-reilly-passed-away-d2f6518f956ehttps://newyorkmets.medium.com/original-mr-met-dan-reilly-passed-away-d2f6518f956e

[Edgy MD]

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[G-Fafif]

The Times takes notice of the loss of a Mets legend.

Daniel Joseph Reilly was born on Jan. 28, 1938, in Richmond Hill, Queens, to Anna and Robert Reilly. After graduating from high school, he attended broadcasting school, served in the Marines in Guam and became a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines. After about a decade with the Mets, he worked in promotions for the New York (now Brooklyn) Nets and Colonie Hill Golf Club (now the Wind Watch Golf & Country Club), in Hauppauge, on Long Island; as a bartender; and as a public address announcer for New York Waterways. On one of his routes he offered his Mr. Met memories to fans traveling from ports in New Jersey and Manhattan to the World's Fair Marina, from which they walked to Shea Stadium. He married Gloria Westerweller on the afternoon of Oct. 11, 1969, the day of Game 1 of the World Series between the Mets and the Baltimore Orioles. It was a road game, which prevented his closest friends on the Mets, the outfielder Ron Swoboda and the pitcher Tug McGraw, from attending; the arrangements had been made long before the Mets were expected to be postseason contenders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/sports/baseball/dan-reilly-dead.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/sports/baseball/dan-reilly-dead.html

[ashie62]

Was he buried in a paper mache box?