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RIP Ron Locke, 1942-2024
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:06 pm
by G-Fafif
Re: RIP Ron Lcke, 1939-2024
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:18 pm
by Cowtipper
Man, the Mets are not having much Locke with all these guys dying lately.
Re: RIP Ron Lcke, 1939-2024
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:28 pm
by 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.
Re: RIP Ron Locke, 1939-2024
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:29 pm
by 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.
Re: RIP Ron Locke, 1939-2024
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 10:37 pm
by 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.
Re: RIP Ron Locke, 1942-2024
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 11:53 pm
by 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.
Re: RIP Ron Locke, 1942-2024
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 4:44 am
by 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.
