RIP Larry Stahl 1941-2026

[stevejrogers]

https://www.thebiglead.com/former-mets-outfielder-10-year-mlb-veteran-dies-at-84/

[G-Fafif]

Larry hit his only Mets home run of his first Met season in the first game coming out of the All-Star break, his three-run shot ensuring Bob Hendley’s 7-3 win over the Reds in the opener of the July 13, 1967, doubleheader at Crosley Field. That game capped a 10-for-24 tear for the outfielder who raised his average well above .300 at midseason. He’d hit three more dingers as a Met in 1968 and then be gone with the expansion draft to San Diego.. Later we’d see him get a couple of pinch-hits for the Reds against the Mets in the 1973 playoffs…and I’d see his card a lot while opening packs in the first half of the 1970s.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He had been the 29th oldest living Met, between Gerry Arrigo and Ken Sanders.

In revisiting this list, I see that there are two Mets players who are older than 90. Apparently we missed Galen Cisco's birthday a couple of weeks ago. Jimmie Schaffer is on the verge of becoming the third.

 

Player Birth Date Age DeMerit, John Stephen (John) January 8, 1936 90 years, 72 days Cisco, Galen Bernard (Galen) March 7, 1936 90 years, 13 days Schaffer, Jimmie Ronald (Jimmie) April 5, 1936 89 years, 349 days Cook, Raymond Clifford (Cliff) August 20, 1936 89 years, 212 days Herrscher, Richard Franklin (Rick) November 3, 1936 89 years, 137 days Hook, James Wesley (Jay) November 18, 1936 89 years, 122 days Eilers, David Louis (Dave) December 3, 1936 89 years, 107 days Martin, Joseph Clifton (J.C.) December 13, 1936 89 years, 97 days Klaus, Robert Francis (Bobby) December 27, 1937 88 years, 83 days Estrada, Charles Leonard (Chuck) February 15, 1938 88 years, 33 days Elliot, Lawrence Lee (Larry) March 5, 1938 88 years, 15 days Weis, Albert John (Al) April 2, 1938 87 years, 352 days Aspromonte, Robert Thomas (Bob) June 19, 1938 87 years, 274 days Anderson, Norman Craig (Craig) July 1, 1938 87 years, 262 days Richardson, Gordon Clark (Gordie) July 19, 1938 87 years, 244 days Cowan, Billy Rolland (Billy) August 28, 1938 87 years, 204 days Moran, Richard Alan (Al) December 5, 1938 87 years, 105 days Samuel, Amado Ruperto (Amado) December 6, 1938 87 years, 104 days Fisher, John Howard (Jack) March 4, 1939 87 years, 16 days Hendley, Charles Robert (Bob) April 30, 1939 86 years, 325 days Parsons, Thomas Anthony (Tom) September 13, 1939 86 years, 189 days Klimchock, Louis Stephen (Lou) October 15, 1939 86 years, 157 days Aker, Jackie Delane (Jack) July 13, 1940 85 years, 250 days Torre, Joseph Paul (Joe) July 18, 1940 85 years, 245 days Hunt, Ronald Kenneth (Ron) February 23, 1941 85 years, 25 days Stephenson, John Herman (John) April 13, 1941 84 years, 341 days Wakefield, William Sumner (Bill) May 24, 1941 84 years, 300 days Arrigo, Gerald William (Gerry) June 12, 1941 84 years, 281 days Sanders, Kenneth George (Ken) July 8, 1941 84 years, 255 days Kroll, Gary Melvin (Gary) July 8, 1941 84 years, 255 days Rusteck, Richard Frank (Dick) July 12, 1941 84 years, 251 days Shamsky, Arthur Louis (Art) October 14, 1941 84 years, 157 days Sutherland, Darrell Wayne (Darrell) November 14, 1941 84 years, 126 days Bosch, Donald John (Don) July 15, 1942 83 years, 248 days Jones, Cleon Joseph (Cleon) August 4, 1942 83 years, 228 days Fitzmaurice, Shaun Earle (Shaun) August 25, 1942 83 years, 207 days Gosger, James Charles (Jim) November 6, 1942 83 years, 134 days Koosman, Jerome Martin (Jerry) December 23, 1942 83 years, 87 days Dillon, Stephen Edward (Steve) March 20, 1943 83 years, 0 days Johnson, Robert Dale (Bob) April 25, 1943 82 years, 330 days

[Frayed Knot]

Larry Stahl outlived Larry Storch by nearly four years who is the first guy I think of whenever I hear the name Larry Stahl. OTOH, Storch died at age 99 so he kind of outlived Stahl even though he died first.

[Edgy MD]

Freaking Larry Storch came within six months of making it to 100.  I'd've never guessed.

[Lefty Specialist]

Agarn!

Wow, I had no idea Joe Torre was 85. 

 

[Frayed Knot]

O'Rourke: "Agarn, I don't know why everybody says you're so dumb"

Agarn (10 minutes later): "WHO says I'm dumb?!?!"