Things You Learned Only Recently About Mets

[Guest Edgy DC]

Posted last night in the other thread: Bob L. Miller was born "Robert Lane Gemeinweiser."

But this morning I find out this: The first pitch of Game Five of the 1965 World Series was thrown out by a 15-year-old Craig Swan.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy DC wrote: But this morning I find out this: The first pitch of Game Five of the 1965 World Series was thrown out by a 15-year-old Craig Swan.

Deets.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Pony League Champion. (Jeff Torborg was supposed to have been his catcher.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Google archives search revealed this, from the New York Times:

LIFE CALLED HARD IN DODGER INFIELD; Martin, Twins' Coach,... ? $3.95 - New York Times - Oct 12, 1965 Today the first-ball pitcher was Craig Swan, who pitched for the championship Long Beach team in the Pony League. The second pitch today was out by S. ...

[G-Fafif]

Craig Swan lifetime at Dodger Stadium: 1-3, 4.99 ERA in 7 games (5 starts). Looks like he and Sandy Koufax reached their L.A. peak in the same year.