O.T.-Original Met,Chris Cannizzaro dead at 78.

[RUhasarrived]

The catcher,whom Casey Stengel called "Canzoneri", a reference to the 1930's multi-division boxing champion,Tony Canzoneri,has passed on.Very few of the original Mets remain.

 

[zappaa]

Knew him
RIP Chris

 

[colbert17]

Also an original Padre. Was the first Padre ever to play in an All Star game.

R.I.P. Chris

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

All of my childhood baseball cards are dying...

 

[colbert17]

Just happened to be on MLB.com and saw this. Talk about baseball cards?? Here are some more we lost (some which I didn't realize) in 2016.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/212306796/remembering-those-from-baseball-we-lost-in-16/

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

One of those cards was Big Nate. "The Mullion" Colbert.

 

[RutgersMO]

I still think Ron Hunt got jobbed on ROY: Rose never amounted to much.~

MO

 

[RUhasarrived]

Ron Hunt may be mentioned during the current Twilight Zone marathon in the episode "A Certain Type of Stopwatch".(Some versions cut the mention.)

The player who injured him in 1965,Phil Gagliano,died a few weeks ago.