Tag Archives: Gil Hodges
Cleon Jones
Cleon Jones (Baseball. Born, Plateau, AL, Aug. 4, 1942.) A sometimes-indifferent fielder who was once removed from a game for failure to hustle, Cleon Joseph Jones set a team record that stood for nearly thirty years by hitting .340 in 1969. Probably the first genuine star ever developed by the Mets, Jones joined the Mets […]
Grandma Murphy
Grandma Murphy (Baseball. Born, New York, NY, July 14, 1908; died, New York, NY, Jan. 14, 1970.) From Fordham to general manager of the Mets’ 1969 world champions, John Joseph Murphy earned his greatest fame (and his nickname) as a sterling Yankees reliever in the 1930s. Murphy was signed by Paul Krichell off the Rose […]