Nelson Doubleday Jr., died Wednesday at his home in New York. He was 81.
Two days after his death, the Mets announced they would honor Doubleday with a moment of silence. A moment of silence? A moment?
Dave Winfield got his first taste of the New York Mets over lunch. For the Mets front office team of Nelson Doubleday and Frank Cashen this was all new and, in hindsight, the 1980 Major League Baseball Reentry Draft, marked the organizations first...
January 18, 1985 Tim Leary was quietly traded by the New York Mets to the Kansas City Royals. Leary was selected out of UCLA in the first-round (second overall) by the Mets in the June 1979 Draft. Less than two years later, at age 22, Leary made his...