howardweinstein-Yep. Easter Sunday, 1972, two days shy of his 48th birthday. MLB did him dirty by waiting until he had been gone fifty years before finally inducting him into the Hall Of Fame. The Dodgers did the same thing by waiting until the same year before finally retiring his number 14. And what gets me is why the Dodgers didn't retire Carl Erskine's number 17?
I was eight years old when Gil passed away and I’ll never forget it. Gil injected professionalism and pride into the Mets players which got them to believe in themselves. 1969 was the result of his input. May God alway Bless Gil and his family.
He had sexual relations with the female traveling secretary. The press and mets management covered it up to spare Joan his wife the indignity. Yogi and Roy McMillan helped put his clothes back on and made it seem like it was outside hotel. Sad. That 19 year old girl killed Gilly in a love making session that was equivalent of a double header going into extra innings. Jay Horowitz mentioned this on his podcast
Summer of '72, most weekends when Mets were home were overcast or rainy. O's had good momentum in Game 5 of '69 Series until the shoe polish argument by Weaver Hendricks and McNally in the 6th. Not only did Frank Robinson homer but McNally also in the 3rd. But they seemed to become unnerved when Robinson claimed he was hit by a pitch in top of 6th and the ensuing argument and his lengthy retreat to dugout runway for inspection by O's trainer (which did reveal a bruise on his hip) when he returned he seemed distracted and was rung up by Kooz. Right after Hodges produced the ball then O's trio squawked, Clendenon produced 2 runs and in the 7th Al Weis went deep and destroyed any confidence the O's had - it was all downhill from then on. Even AL umps knew and respected Hodges who was sharp enough to use his reputation to best advantage when it counted most. Weaver did not have that luxury and probably cost his superior team a path to win. Aside from pulling off signing Seaver, the club's most important deal was to send pitcher Bill Denehy to Senators for Hodges. Willie arriving spelled the end of Tommie Agee's time in NY, Kranepool was close to gone but Hodges passing kept that from happening and with all the injuries the thinness of Mets farm system gave him an opportunity to 'produce'. What influenced '73 Mets was acquiring Millan and George Stone, emergence of Tug, better recovery from injuries and the death of Roberto Celemente. In May and June of that year, some the game sequences for movie "Bang the Drum Slowly" were shot at Shea and Yankee Stadium.
The problem with this franchise is, they have always lived in the past. From the beginning, they thought they had to cling to the memory of the Dodgers, Giants and for some reason, the Yankees. Then as we see here, the 1969 Mets would dominate their history. I've been here for all those seasons, and I think finally, with the Wilpons gone, the Mets can finally 62 years later, be their own franchise. They have their own history.
The dairy lea milk commercials. I remember in the late 70s in New York City when the Mets were horrible dairy Lee milk cartons used to have met tickets on the side and you would cut them out and if you got five or 10 of them you would mail them in and you would get a free upper deck ticket to a Mets game at shea Stadium
Happy 100th birthday to Gil Hodges. Born April 4th 1924.Died way to young.
howardweinstein-Yep. Easter Sunday, 1972, two days shy of his 48th birthday. MLB did him dirty by waiting until he had been gone fifty years before finally inducting him into the Hall Of Fame. The Dodgers did the same thing by waiting until the same year before finally retiring his number 14. And what gets me is why the Dodgers didn't retire Carl Erskine's number 17?
I was eight years old when Gil passed away and I’ll never forget it. Gil injected professionalism and pride into the Mets players which got them to believe in themselves. 1969 was the result of his input. May God alway Bless Gil and his family.
He had sexual relations with the female traveling secretary. The press and mets management covered it up to spare Joan his wife the indignity. Yogi and Roy McMillan helped put his clothes back on and made it seem like it was outside hotel. Sad. That 19 year old girl killed Gilly in a love making session that was equivalent of a double header going into extra innings. Jay Horowitz mentioned this on his podcast
@@KevinMiller-xn5vuhe didn’t get in because he died in bed with the traveling secretary. A lot of commissioners office held the cover up against gilly
I'm loving all these Mets highlights I'm a fan since childhood
Happy Birthday Gil gone way to young.
GOD BLESS GIL HODGES FOREVER - THANK YOU GIL HODGES FOR YOUR LOVE OF NEW YORK - !
Summer of '72, most weekends when Mets were home were overcast or rainy.
O's had good momentum in Game 5 of '69 Series until the shoe polish argument by Weaver Hendricks and McNally in the 6th.
Not only did Frank Robinson homer but McNally also in the 3rd. But they seemed to become unnerved when Robinson claimed
he was hit by a pitch in top of 6th and the ensuing argument and his lengthy retreat to dugout runway for inspection by O's trainer
(which did reveal a bruise on his hip) when he returned he seemed distracted and was rung up by Kooz.
Right after Hodges produced the ball then O's trio squawked, Clendenon produced 2 runs and in the 7th Al Weis went deep and
destroyed any confidence the O's had - it was all downhill from then on.
Even AL umps knew and respected Hodges who was sharp enough to use his reputation to best advantage when it counted most.
Weaver did not have that luxury and probably cost his superior team a path to win.
Aside from pulling off signing Seaver, the club's most important deal was to send pitcher Bill Denehy to Senators for Hodges.
Willie arriving spelled the end of Tommie Agee's time in NY, Kranepool was close to gone but Hodges passing kept that from
happening and with all the injuries the thinness of Mets farm system gave him an opportunity to 'produce'.
What influenced '73 Mets was acquiring Millan and George Stone, emergence of Tug, better recovery from injuries
and the death of Roberto Celemente.
In May and June of that year, some the game sequences for movie "Bang the Drum Slowly" were shot at Shea and Yankee Stadium.
The problem with this franchise is, they have always lived in the past. From the beginning, they thought they had to cling to the memory of the Dodgers, Giants and for some reason, the Yankees. Then as we see here, the 1969 Mets would dominate their history. I've been here for all those seasons, and I think finally, with the Wilpons gone, the Mets can finally 62 years later, be their own franchise. They have their own history.
The Mets had so many injuries in 1972 that no one on the team had 100 hits.
Seaver
Never mentioned that the mets traded Nolan Ryan, the worst trade ever.
They also got rid of Tom Seaver as well-another disastrous trade.
The dairy lea milk commercials. I remember in the late 70s in New York City when the Mets were horrible dairy Lee milk cartons used to have met tickets on the side and you would cut them out and if you got five or 10 of them you would mail them in and you would get a free upper deck ticket to a Mets game at shea Stadium
I did that so many times