Probably not a need for anyone, but it isn't posted elsewhere in the thread and it's a recent purchase that I spent a considerable amount of time removing the autograph, so...
"Hot Rod" Kanehl was my earliest "favorite" Met. In '62, I took to the team right away (my grandparents were among the first people in upstate New York to have "cable"...or what cable was in those days...which gave them the NYC indies--WPIX and WOR and the Syracuse and Utica stations in addition to the locals), but none of the player names stuck with me until my older brother bought some cards in '63. For Mets, he got Ashburn, Roger Craig and Kanehl. So many of the '63s were big head shots, so Rod's swing of the bat on his card won my young heart immediately.
Rod was an NRI in '62. Casey loved him for his hustle when the two were in the Yankee organization. Not only that, Rod actually understood Stengelese and might be the only one who ever did. I'm not sure when I heard the story of Rod jumping over the fence to retrieve a baseball, but that story cemented my affection. And, of course, Rod hit the first ever Mets Grand Slam. Rod was a Met from '62 to '64 and was a fan favorite of many. He played every position other than pitcher and catcher and had miles and miles of heart, if not the talent to match. He would have been a great minor league skipper if the organization hadn't offended him into retirement with their contract offer (minor league and with a huge pay cut) for '65. It says a lot that about Rod that he was the only former Met to attend Casey's funeral. Rod passed away in 2004.
Anyway, there are lots of good B&W pictures of Rod. Getty has a halfway decent color shot. I've seen a couple other
bad color shots, but I don't think the Vault has spit out any Kanehls as of yet. This one turned up on eBay at a very reasonable price, so I bought it.
What I did not notice in the posting but saw immediately upon receipt was that the image was reversed. Here's the full size de-autoed and flipped image.