Trivia

[batmagadanleadoff]

Who are the only four members of the 1962 Mets who played ML baseball in the '70s?

[metirish]

Ed Kranepool

[batmagadanleadoff]

metirish wrote: Ed Kranepool

Correct



OG Mets Sucking in the Seventies

Ed Kranepool -- MetIrish

[MFS62]

Chris Cannizaro.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

OG Mets Sucking in the Seventies

Ed Kranepool -- MetIrish
Chris Cannizzaro -- MFS62

[batmagadanleadoff]

Hint: One remaining Met was involved in one of the 1970's most memorable plays. Another former (though non-1962) Met was also involved in that same play.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jim Hickman

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bob Miller

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hickman.

[batmagadanleadoff]

OG Mets Sucking in the Seventies

Ed Kranepool -- MetIrish
Chris Cannizzaro -- MFS62
Jim Hickman -- JCL

In the 1970 All Star Game, it was Jim Hickman who stroked a single to center field with the game tied. Amos Otis, already an all-star in just his first season with his new team, fielded the single and threw the ball back to catcher Ray Fosse in an attempt to cut off the potential winning run from scoring. The rest is history.


JCL: Which Bob Miller are you referring to? Because there were two of them, you know. (haha)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Righty

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Righty

You are righty. I would have accepted "Nelson", simply "Nelson", as well.

OG Mets Sucking in the Seventies

Ed Kranepool -- MetIrish
Chris Cannizzaro -- MFS62
Jim Hickman -- JCL
Bob L. Miller -- JCL

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Jim Hickman -- JCL In the 1970 All Star Game, it was Jim Hickman who stroked a single to center field with the game tied. Amos Otis, already an all-star in just his first season with his new team, fielded the single and threw the ball back to catcher Ray Fosse in an attempt to cut off the potential winning run from scoring. The rest is history.

Notice how I was able to describe this play without mentioning the name of the ********** who beat up Buddy Harrelson?

[MFS62]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: JCL: Which Bob Miller are you referring to? Because there were two of them, you know. (haha)

The joke used to be that the Mets had two pitchers named Bob Miller. How to remember which was which?
Leave it to the Mets to have one of them have "L" as his middle initial - and he was the righty.


Nothing was easy with that 1962 team.
Later

[seawolf17]

MFS62 wrote: JCL: Which Bob Miller are you referring to? Because there were two of them, you know. (haha) The joke used to be that the Mets had two pitchers named Bob Miller. How to remember which was which? Leave it to the Mets to have one of them have "L" as his middle initial - and he was the righty. Nothing was easy with that 1962 team. Later

I have a hard time remembering which one is dead; it's the guy who came back in 1974, not the guy who was older... but I still never remember which was which.

[G-Fafif]

seawolf17 wrote: I have a hard time remembering which one is dead; it's the guy who came back in 1974, not the guy who was older... but I still never remember which was which.

That makes you and Casey Stengel.