RIP Ron Locke, 1942-2024

[G-Fafif]

Rob Locke, 1964 Met pitcher, 82.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/na ... d=57095205

[Cowtipper]

Man, the Mets are not having much Locke with all these guys dying lately.

[Met Hunter]

See if this link works: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/n ... d=57095205


I met Ron some time ago. Great guy. Still fit playing ball. Injuries ended his career but to me he was the first lefty 45 the Mets had before Tug and Franco. Too bad he didn’t get to show in it New York.

This is the second met we found to be deceased prior to the Rickey announcement.

[G-Fafif]

Baseball Reference has Ron born in 1942, but one assumes his family had the right date.

Ron was my first 1965 card. Got it at my first card show, in 1975.

[Edgy MD]

Ron was a predictor of MLB's huge latter-day sponsorship from buildsubmarines.com, having worked on subs for big-time US Navy contractor General Dynamics before being scouted pitching for the company team.

[G-Fafif]

No disrespect to the funeral home’s fact-checking, but after combing through some contemporary reports from his career, 1942 makes more sense as Ron Locke’s birthdate.

[batmagadanleadoff]

If you organize your Topps baseball cards by card # numerical order, Ron Locke's Topps 1964 rookie card (#556) marks the first Topps ever card to feature a Mets player photographed at Shea Stadium.