Billy Murphy, 1966 Met, 1944-2024

[Benjamin Grimm]

https://www.mountainviewtacoma.com/obituaries/William-Murphy-83/#!/ObituaryObituary



Billy Murphy, an outfielder who played in 84 games for the 1966 Mets, died on May 13.

[Edgy MD]

Man, we need Met Hunter to come back and keep us from being late with these things.



Rest in peace, Billy Murphy. He deserved more than a funeral home obituary. Doesn't have a SABR bio either.

[MFS62]

RIP

Later

[Met Hunter]

Sorry just found out about this today. Many of these gents go unnoticed in their passing. I think Danny Napoleon was close to a year and a half. Here's a pic of Murph from a friend that visited him in 2014. He loved the Mets and greeted my friend wearing that hat. <ATTACHMENT[attachment=0]IMG_9877.jpeg[/attachment]

[Edgy MD]

That's great!! Welcome back, Met Hunter!!



It's wrong that these passings should slip through the cracks. It seems that, if there's anything an alumni office should be doing, it's to keep track of how these guys are doing, write a press release when they are in danger or pass, and send a generous allotment of flowers to the funeral.

[batmagadanleadoff]

How would that work? Was Jay Horwitz supposed to write a letter to Billy Murphy, asking Murphy to inform the Mets as soon as he dies?

[Edgy MD]

I assume Jay Horwitz has staff and part of their role is to keep tabs on the 800 or so surviving Mets.



Obviously, there are public announcements made when somebody passes, so sarcastic jibes about the dead informing people are un-necessary.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I assume Jay Horwitz has staff and part of their role is to keep tabs on the 800 or so surviving Mets.

I would guess that they're already doing that. But it's on the players' families to inform the Mets of these occurrences and some families just don't, for whatever reason or other. Obviously, the deaths of the more prominent players make the National news feeds and the team finds out that way whether or not their families contact the Mets. But Murphy was a fringe player with a brief career.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I assume Jay Horwitz has staff and part of their role is to keep tabs on the 800 or so surviving Mets. I would guess that they're already doing that. But it's on the players' families to inform the Mets of these occurrences and some families just don't, for whatever reason or other. Obviously, the deaths of the more prominent players make the National news feeds and the team finds out that way whether or not their families contact the Mets. But Murphy was a fringe player with a brief career.

Anyways, I'm now waiting for the inevitable writeup on Faith and Fear, which might be my favorite feature over there. Too bad somebody's gotta die for that to happen. I'm guessing Fry gets this assignment because he's got a DIY Mets Murphy card.

[G-Fafif]

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Anyways, I'm now waiting for the inevitable writeup on Faith and Fear, which might be my favorite feature over there. Too bad somebody's gotta die for that to happen.

[Met Hunter]

If the team really cared, they'd correspond with the alumni. Especially the older ones. Just have them stay in touch, keep the team informed of any changes, etc. Unfortunately they do very little and I've spoken to players that notice. Some have traveled to NY and Citifield and got the ‘who are you?' treatment. I was the main guy involved in bringing Clarence Coleman back to NY and when he passed his family told me they called the Mets right away cause they felt like some of us do that these guys at the very least should be acknowledged by the fans that rooted for them while wearing the Mets uniform however long they stayed. I'm sure I'm in the minority but I'd make sure I acknowledged them. Guys like Hawk Taylor, Harry Parker and the aforementioned Danny Napoleon went quite a while before their deaths were noted. I know that's mostly on the family, some are very private, but communication wouldn't hurt.