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How sad , Rest in peace 🙏

Bummer! Condolences to his family. A member of the Mets Hall of Fame.

I miss his kind of ballplayer, and by that I mean that he was one tough SOB ... which is basically what his friends called him.
Just the simple act of rolling the ball back to the mound following the 3rd out of the half-inning to the opposite side of the
opposing pitcher's dugout just so he'd have to walk an extra couple of strides in order to pick it up -- and, yes kids, there
once was a time when baseballs continued to be used even if they briefly touched the ground -- was the perfect way to
silently say that he didn't show up to the park that day in order to make friends.

kcmets wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:08 am

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:12 amI had to reverse engineer your post to figure out how you found that thread. You went into the UMDB to find it, it seems.

No, I clicked:
> Forum Archives
> Master Index of Archived Threads
> The Baseball Forum
And typed:
> Ctrl F (Windows 'Find' Shortcut)
> "Ordoñez"

Thanks for finding the Grote Thread. Fun mammaries.

Where is "Forum Archives"? I see several specialized archives, but no Forum Archives.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:47 pm Grote's defense was Cooperstown Hall of Fame caliber.

I saw a great quote the other day on Facebook. Someone posted that Johnny Bench one said "If Jerry Grote and I had been on the same team, I would have been the third baseman".
A true tribute to Grote's defensive prowess.

Later

Another Mets legend, gone :-(. This is about the time where they will start perishing in droves.

Awesome photo from his Times obit.