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Share your memories of Hobie Landrith
HERE IS WHAT OTHER METS FANS HAVE TO SAY:
Alex Simon
We have had the honor to meet Hobie and he is as fine a gentleman as you could ever meet. He was truly the proper pick as the first MET. He represents everything good about baseball. We hope many other fans get a chance to meet Hobie and enjoy his stories.
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Robbie Doiron
I met Mr. Landrith at a S.F. Giants fantasy camp and immediately understood the meaning of "true gentleman". It was completely refreshing to chat, play for and admire a man who represents his family, sport and the Giants so magnificently. He truly is a hero for more reasons than just having played the game.
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Ron from Tampa
June 30, 2001
If I remember the story correctly, Landrith was the Mets' first pick in the 1962 expansion draft. Afterwards, when reporters asked Casey Stengel why the team had drafted a catcher as the first pick , he responded, in typical Stengelese, "You gotta have a catcher or else you'll have all passed balls"
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John Herling
October 9, 2001
Landrith had the dubious honor of being involved in the first bad trade in Mets history: while hitting and fielding well, Landrith was traded to Baltimore for the (in)famous Marv Throneberry! The trade was necessitated by an injury to the Mets' starting first baseman, Gil Hodges.
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jamey bumbalo
November 25, 2005
Hobie Landrith is the answer to the trivia questions about the first Met drafted and who was traded for Marvelous Marv Throneberry, but don't forget that he played 14 years in the majors, which is no small feat.
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Jonathan Stern
December 2, 2005
In Dick Schaap's book on the 1969 Mets, "The Year The Mets Lost Last Place," is a funny scene in which a now retired Hobie Landrith drops a can of paint while painting his house. Said Landrith, "That's why the Mets got rid of me."
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