RIP Hobie Landrith, 1930-2023

[G-Fafif]

Our first pick, the catcher selected to block all them passed balls, 93.



https://metsinsider.mlblogs.com/rest-in-peace-hobie-landrith-5e424d301ccfhttps://metsinsider.mlblogs.com/rest-in-peace-hobie-landrith-5e424d301ccf

[MFS62]

One of the munificent seven catchers on the 1962 Mets.

RIP



Later

[G-Fafif]

Hobie died April 6, per the Mets.

[Met Hunter]

Other sources have the date as the prior Thursday, March 30. Horwitz not really clear in his article on Twitter.

[kcmets]

bbrdotcom has him still alive at the present time.

[Edgy MD]

The Original Met.

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Hobie Landrith's only Met HR is Mets first walk-off HR in franchise history and beats Hall-of-Famer and future Met, Warren Spahn.

[G-Fafif]

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2023/04/09/kodai-by-way-of-hobie/Best Hobie the Mets have ever had. There's literally no competition.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He was the second-oldest living Met, behind only Roger Craig.



With his death, John DeMerit moves into the Top Ten, Ron Taylor enters the Top Twenty, and John Sullivan is now in the Top Forty.

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