27 Minutes Outside Citi Field

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daniel murphy, duke snider, fred wilpon, gil hodges, richie ashburn, willie mays, yogi berra

Published Dec. 10, 2009 at 6:04 p.m.

Ebbets Field was always in reach. There were obstacles — money, the policeman's shoe, a leap, the greasy garageman — but a boy could contend with them and triumph, if he had wit and persistence and a touch of courage. It was easy and absolutely irrational to relate getting to see a Dodger game with getting to be a Dodger. Which, in the fine irrationality of boyhood, is what generations of Brooklyn children did ... —Roger Kahn, The Boys Of Summer ... Why is Mets security being wasted

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Now About That Franchise Hit Record...

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bud harrelson, cleon jones, david wright, ed kranepool, gil hodges, gus bell, jerry grote, jim hickman, joe christopher, jose reyes, luis castillo, pumpsie green, richie ashburn, rod kanehl, ron hunt, tommie agee, wayne garrett, wayne graham, yogi berra

Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 8:32 a.m.

There's a lot of talk going around about all-time franchise records for hits. I assume this has something to do with the eternal appreciation fans and media have for true legends of the game. Given that the subject is in the air, I thought it would be fun (my kind of fun, at any rate) to explore how the vaunted Met record for most hits in a career came to be ... The first Met to hold the all-time franchise record for hits was Gus Bell. He produced the first Met hit ever, a one-out single to

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