Ed Smith

[Guest AG/DC]

Anybody recall a cricketer joining the Mets for spring training in 2001?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/cricket/1171994.stm

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

no

[Guest AG/DC]

Me neither, though there's several references to it.

Seeems like the kind of cross-promotional thing that Bobby Valentine would enjoy, but I don't remember a word of it. I'm guessing he booked in for a week and lasted two days.

[Guest themetfairy]

I have no memory of that. And I was writing Monday Morning Mets at the time, so I was focused on minutiae. I just looked at my year end column for 2001, and there's nothing on an Ed Smith.

[metirish]

Never heard of this , looking him up he is still playing cricket.




He did write that book though.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Hard-Ball-Cricket-Baseball/dp/0349116660

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

="metirish"]Never heard of this , looking him up he is still playing cricket. He did write that book though. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Hard-Ball-Cricket-Baseball/dp/0349116660

Interesting!

One of the remarks I'd read about Chuck Culpepper's soccer book (see the book thread) was that English soccer fans were surprised to see how insightful a wide-eyed newcomer to the sport could be, seeing things they'd long since overlooked.

Somebody add this to the CPF lending library already

[metirish]

The reviews looked good , I looked for it on nypl.org but they don't have it, so I requested they get it. Lets see how that goes.

[MFS62]

Was that the year that Pizazza had his own live-in dietician during ST?

Later

[seawolf17]

MFS62 wrote: Was that the year that Pizazza had his own live-in dietician during ST? Later

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