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Mets We Have Written To

cooby Aug 22 2007 08:39 PM

WHile watching the Little League playoffs tonight, something somebody said made me start thinking about this. I don't know that we have ever talked about this before, amazingly. Anyway, what all players have you written letters to? I thought about this for awhile and came up with Bud Harrelson Lee Mazzilli (when he was traded to Texas. 1979? 1980?) Mackey Sasser Jeff Torborg ( his wife answered) Bobby Valentine (I think) Carlos Baerga (of course) Tom OMalley (to ask for his autograph. He did not reply and a year or so ago I ended up sitting next to him in a box seat at Bowman Field in Williamsport and I snubbed him, yes I did. Well, he kinda snubbed me back. All the while my husband was egging me on to ask for him to sign something) I am sure there are some I have forgotten about. It kinda looks as though I went on a letter writing binge in the 1990's but that is because most of them were written in conjunction with my then "tween" daughter Any of you?

metsguyinmichigan Aug 22 2007 09:27 PM

I wrote to Seaver back in 1975 when I was 11, sending him his Topps baseball card because I tought he might like it, and asking for an autographed photo. Sometime later an envelope from New York Metropolitan Baseball Club arrived, and my dad -- who has the same first name -- said "I think this is for you." Enclosed was my autographed photo and the card I sent him, also signed. Naturally, both are among my most prized possessions and framed in the Baseball Room.

cooby Aug 23 2007 03:43 PM

I thought of a couple more. Once in study hall in high school, I wrote to Dave Kingman, at the urging of a friend. In 1986, when the Pirates released Lee Mazzilli, I wrote to him again, never dreaming the Mets were about to re-sign him. I wrote to Sid Fernandez during spring training when he broke his arm one year. That's a great story metsguy, you really got lucky! :) Could we really be the only ones who care enough about our boys to write and tell them so?

Kid Carsey Aug 23 2007 04:28 PM

I'm sure I wrote to Seaver and Koosman when I was a kid, I have no re- collection of what I wrote but I think a couple of times I got some kind of mailing from the team with some kid fan stuff. I wrote The Stork a couple of years ago, I forget why, to ask him if he would do a CPF interview (not sure if it was really him and I forget if the letter was returned or just not answered). I sent Piazza some tickets to sign when he broke the HR record for catchers. Some back office numb nut returned the tickets with a really lame Piazza card with his signature imprinted on it. I used to write Jay Horowitz a couple of times a year but I'd rather not bring up that on a public forum or revisit that era in my fandom for that matter.

cooby Aug 23 2007 04:51 PM

That's what I'm talking about, KC! As you can tell by the occasions of my letters, they were all pretty much letters of encouragement, a "Hang In There". Baerga during his hitting woes, Sasser during his throwing problems. I wrote to Harrelson, Valentine and Torberg to welcome them to the Mets and to offer my suggestions on how to coach the team I loved.

Rockin' Doc Aug 23 2007 05:48 PM

Let me see now, Mets I have written to? Um, none. Actually, I don't believe that I have ever written to any professional athletes (nor musicians or actors for that matter). I guess I would suck as a pen pal. Apparently not much of a writer.

Johnny Dickshot Aug 23 2007 06:35 PM

I wrote like a big letter to everyone addressed to the team thinking maybe that they'd pass it around or something. But I got a paper team photo back.

MFS62 Aug 25 2007 08:46 AM

Some time back in the mid-60's I wrote to the then- Mets pitching coach. (forget who) At the time, Card third baseman/ outfielder Mike Shannon had been wearing the Mets out. I had seen the Cards on the national TV game a few times and noticed he couldn't touch the low inside fastball. So I wrote my letter. Not even did I not get a reply, but the Mets kept pitching Shannon up and/ or outside, ahd he kept hitting well against them. Serves 'em right for not listening to me. Later

vtmet Aug 25 2007 07:13 PM

Only Met that I remember writing to and getting a reply from was Dallas Green...However, when I was going to college in the Binghamton area, I was a waiter in a restaurant...I waited on Butch Huskey and 3 of his B'Mets teammates one day, nice polite guy...

Edgy DC Aug 25 2007 08:44 PM

Where'd you wait?

vtmet Aug 25 2007 08:51 PM

A Friendly's Restaurant...

vtmet Aug 25 2007 08:52 PM

A Friendly's Restaurant by day...and a Denny's Restaurant by night...Butch was at the Friendly's...

Edgy DC Aug 25 2007 08:53 PM

Well, that explains his, you know, huskeyness. We ate at the Whole in the Wall.

vtmet Aug 25 2007 09:05 PM

Edgy DC wrote: Well, that explains his, you know, huskeyness. We ate at the Whole in the Wall. looks like a nice place...I've never eaten there but my wife's friend lived on that street, and she just said that she's eaten there years ago... Down near the B'Mets stadium on Upper Court Street is a small place named "Parisi's Twin Freeze" which makes some of the best homemade ice cream...loved the Milky Way ice cream there... As far as Butch...I doubt he ever needed to take any steroids...his power came from plain old high calorie foods...If anything, the Mets tried to get him to shrink down in size...

MFS62 Aug 26 2007 09:00 AM

Edgy DC wrote: Well, that explains his, you know, huskeyness. We ate at the Whole in the Wall. Were you visiting Binghamton? I thought you went to Manhattan. (Or was that another CPF-er ?) Later

Frayed Knot Aug 26 2007 09:20 AM

]Not even did I not get a reply, but the Mets kept pitching Shannon up and/ or outside, ahd he kept hitting well against them. Don't feel bad. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and he never wrote back either.

MFS62 Aug 26 2007 12:32 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: ]Not even did I not get a reply, but the Mets kept pitching Shannon up and/ or outside, ahd he kept hitting well against them. Don't feel bad. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and he never wrote back either. OK. Here's the obligatory BA DA BUM! you expected. LOL! Later

Edgy DC Aug 26 2007 01:48 PM

I went to Manhattan. Spent a weekend in Bingo about two years ago.

Lundy Aug 26 2007 06:40 PM

I wrote to Keith Hernandez, it must have been in 1985, because I remember writing about the 19-inning game that he played in against the Braves. I asked for his autograph, and did get something in return--a Keith Hernandez postcard with Keith's autograph rubber-stamped onto it.

Edgy DC Aug 26 2007 06:45 PM

Dear Lastings Milledge, Why didn't you get to that ball faster? Love, Edgy

cooby Aug 27 2007 07:04 PM

Love your stories :) THe postcards some of you mentioned sound like the very same only two responses we got... My answer from Susie Torberg was on a Jeff Torberg one (natch) and my daughter got one (unsigned) from Mackey Sasser along with a Mets schedule. She was in heaven.