RIP Ed Bauta, 1935-2022

[G-Fafif]

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25308960/eduardo-bautahttps://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25308960/eduardo-bauta



Pitched for the Mets in 1963 and 1964.

[MFS62]

I remember when he was a Pirate minor leaguer.

RIP



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

The twelfth-oldest living Met at the time of his death.



Now, Dave Eilers moves into the Top Twenty, and Bart Shirley enters the Top Forty.



http://leaptoad.com/mets/oldestliving.phphttp://leaptoad.com/mets/oldestliving.php

[G-Fafif]

A few reflections http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2022/07/11/new-york-retains-its-challenge/within.

[roger_that]

A few reflections http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2022/07/11/new-york-retains-its-challenge/within.

Good stuff. Any chance you could use a slightly larger font size?

[kcmets]

Text sizes are adjustable in all browsers.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Edited July 11, 2022 by Guest

[MFS62]

His death didn't give me Good Vibrations.

Later

[roger_that]

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Text sizes are adjustable in all browsers.

[kcmets]

Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner.

Then Settings, Appearance, and Font Size

[G-Fafif]

Pitcher to the stars…

Bauta's good looks were frequently mentioned in contemporary newspaper articles about him, and he had many high-profile friendships — his obituary noted time spent with Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin.

https://ripbaseball.com/2022/07/15/obituary-ed-bauta-1935-2022/https://ripbaseball.com/2022/07/15/obituary-ed-bauta-1935-2022/

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

A few reflections http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2022/07/11/new-york-retains-its-challenge/within.

That is interesting! And leave it to you.



The deepest thought I had on bauta was like, were he to exist today, he would probably not be known as "Ed."

[roger_that]

Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner. Then Settings, Appearance, and Font Size

Thanks. Those three dots don't always appear, nor does the magnifier/zoom/crosshairs-within-the-circle thingie. That's the infuriating part--sometimes it's right there, sometimes neither is visible. Grrrr!



It's funny about Ed Bauta's good looks. I don't much notice such stuff, unless someone is unusually good-looking or unspeakably homely, but I've always, even as a kid, had him in the latter category. "Poor guy, must be tough rising to the top with an ugly mug like that" sprt of thing.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I'd argue that the small type size and lack of graphics to break up the text is what keeps FAFIF from hit counts that spike through the roof, but that would come from a place pure jealousy over what is the best blog around. FAFIF is about writing and reading. And the Mets.



Blow up those font sizes on your browser and read.

[kcmets]

[Ctrl +] and [Ctrl -] also toggle font sizes.



Forgot about that nifty little thing from my Netscape daze...

[roger_that]

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[Ctrl +] and [Ctrl -] also toggle font sizes.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, I'd argue that the small type size and lack of graphics to break up the text is what keeps FAFIF from hit counts that spike through the roof, but that would come from a place pure jealousy over what is the best blog around. FAFIF is about writing and reading. And the Mets. Blow up those font sizes on your browser and read.

True on all counts. All fafif really needs is a friendlier mobile layout, as does the other blog that actually makes me wanna stab myself with envy, Uniwatch--although I noticed today, that actually might happen

[G-Fafif]

Thanks for enlarging and reading. That's how I've been doing it all this time (ancient iMac).



Mr. Bauta — pronounced Bah-OO-ta — would no doubt appreciate the attention, posthumousness notwithstanding.

[roger_that]

Can we run some facial photos on him and vote to see if he's very handsome or plug-ugly?

[Edgy MD]

He doesn't do it for me, as I prefer men with more upper lip, but Cubans were a cool and swoony thing to be at the time. Combine the dark stare of an exile whose country has fallen to revolution with his ropy athletic musculature, I can imagine he knew how to work a Hollywood pool party. He probably knew how to make cigarette hang just so, and lit and smoked 'em like he had more important things on his mind.



https://nymetshistorysite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/ed-bauta.png> https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/ed_bauta_autograph.jpg>

[roger_that]

Edgy MD wrote: He doesn't do it for me, as I prefer men with more upper lip, but Cubans were a cool and swoony thing to be at the time. Combine the dark stare of an exile whose country has fallen to revolution with his ropy athletic musculature, I can imagine he knew how to work a Hollywood pool party. He probably knew how to make cigarette hang just so, and lit and smoked 'em like he had more important things on his mind. https://nymetshistorysite.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/ed-bauta.png> https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/ed_bauta_autograph.jpg>

He always looked kinda simian to me. All that acreage between the upper lip and the nose. I don't see "exotic foreignness" there as much as I see "swinging from branch to branch in search of ripe bananas."

[G-Fafif]

Rest in peace, Ed.

[roger_that]

Well, yeah, that, too.