RIP Eddie Bressoud, 1932-2023

[G-Fafif]

Eddie Bressoud, the first former New York Giant to play as a New York Met -- and in doing so established a single-season shortstop club home run record that would not be approached for a couple of decades -- has died at 91. The passing of the 1966 Met reduces the roster of living NY Baseball Giants to nine.



https://www.thereporter.com/2023/07/18/commanding-presence-ed-bressoud-dies-at-91/https://www.thereporter.com/2023/07/18/commanding-presence-ed-bressoud-dies-at-91/

[MFS62]

He was obtained in a trade for one of my early favorite Mets - Joe Christopher.

RIP



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

He had been the third oldest living Met. Now, with his death, Jimmie Schaffer moves into the Top Ten, Bobby Klaus into the Top Twenty, and Bill Wakefield into the Top Forty.



I was surprised that he and Willie Mays were the only New York Giants to have also played for the Mets, compared to nine Brooklyn Dodgers.

[G-Fafif]

Eddie was among the last who could say he recorded a regular season base hit in four New York ballparks, having come along in time for Ebbets Field, having lasted long enough for Shea Stadium and having switched leagues to satisfy the MFYS1 requirement. Ozzie Virgil Sr. and Felix Mantilla survive within that cohort. Bressoud's Polo Grounds experience seems rather unique, considering he played a) at the PG and played for the Mets at Shea, but never played in a Mets game in Manhattan — for or against the home team — given that he was a Red Sock in 1962 and 1963.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Surely there must be some players who had hits at Shea, Citi Field, and the last two Yankee Stadiums?

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He had been the third oldest living Met. Now, with his death, Jimmie Schaffer moves into the Top Ten, Bobby Klaus into the Top Twenty, and Bill Wakefield into the Top Forty. I was surprised that he and Willie Mays were the only New York Giants to have also played for the Mets, compared to nine Brooklyn Dodgers.

Clearly two of those facts you sussed out when you wrote "I Wonder about Eddie B."

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Surely there must be some players who had hits at Shea, Citi Field, and the last two Yankee Stadiums?

True. Let's say in the 20th century, or in four boroughs.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy MD wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: He had been the third oldest living Met. Now, with his death, Jimmie Schaffer moves into the Top Ten, Bobby Klaus into the Top Twenty, and Bill Wakefield into the Top Forty. I was surprised that he and Willie Mays were the only New York Giants to have also played for the Mets, compared to nine Brooklyn Dodgers. Clearly two of those facts you sussed out when you wrote "I Wonder about Eddie B."

Thanks for still remembering that, eighteen years later!

[G-Fafif]

Official obit says July 13 in Walnut Creek, Calif.



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