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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
When reporters asked Mets Manager Casey Stengel why Landrith, 31 years old, was anointed as the first Met, he replied: “You gotta have a catcher or you’d have a lot of passed balls.”  |
That man knew his baseball!
With the passing of Landrith, as pointed out by GKR on the broadcast, there are only three Mets remaining that played in the Mets' first-ever game, an 11-4 loss in St. Louis: Roger Craig (93), Jim Marshall (91), and Felix Mantilla (88).