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Gil Hodges
Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, 2022
Inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame, 1982
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 53 of 1234 players

Gilbert Raymond Hodges
Born: April 4, 1924 at Princeton, Ind.
Died: April 2, 1972 at West Palm Beach, Fla. Obituary
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.02 Weight: 200

Gil Hodges has been the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup 15 times, most recently on January 2, 2024.

Non-playing roles with Mets

Manager 1968 - 1971

First Mets game: April 11, 1962
Last Mets game: May 5, 1963

Father of Gilbert Hodges

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	Gil Is Back: 'It Will Be a Little Strange' Newsday, October 11, 1961 After being selected in the expansion draft by the Mets, Gil Hodges is returning to New York.
Tags: Gil Hodges.

	Mets' $1.8M Buy Hodges, Chacon, Zimmer, 19 Others New York Daily News, October 11, 1961 The Mets have selected 22 players in the expansion draft, highlighted by former Brooklyn Dodger Gil Hodges.
Tags: Elio Chacon, Gil Hodges, Don Zimmer.

	Mets, Colts Pick 6 Dodgers Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1961 Coverage of the 1961 expansion draft from Los Angeles.
Tags: Gil Hodges.

	Mets Vote, Reject Giants Game Newsday, June 7, 1968 Giants owner Horace Stoneham wanted to play, but the Mets voted to cancel a scheduled game in San Francisco to honor the memory of recently assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Tags: Ed Charles, M. Donald Grant, Gil Hodges, Ed Kranepool.

	Mets Get 16 Hits Off Marichal but Giants Win, 9-5 New York Daily News, June 16, 1968 In 1968, Juan Marichal pitched a complete-game win over the Mets, giving up 16 hits while doing so. This was clearly an era before pitch counts. At the time the Mets were approaching a .500 record for the first time in their history, and Bill Gallo has a strange cartoon of Gil Hodges wearing a hideous necktie.
Tags: Gil Hodges.

	Agee Calls 1st Catch Harder; Hodges Chooses 2d New York Daily News, October 15, 1969 Tommie Agee and Gil Hodges will have to agree to disagree about which one of Agee's catches in Game Three of the 1969 World Series was more impressive.
Tags: Tommie Agee, Gil Hodges.

	Mets' Hodges Dies of Heart Attack New York Daily News, April 3, 1972 News account of the sudden and unexpected death of Mets manager Gil Hodges in 1972.
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	Born in Middle America, Tested on Iwo Jima New York Daily News, April 4, 1972 Dick Young eulogizes Gil Hodges. Plus Phil Pepe on "The Last Plane Trip Home to Brooklyn" and a memorial cartoon by Bill Gallo.
Tags: Gil Hodges.

	Little Buddy Could Make Big Difference Newsday, May 31, 1990 As Bud Harrelson takes the helm as Mets manager, Newsday columnist Joe Gergen looks back at how Buddy got to where he is, and also at what may lie ahead. Gergen points out that Bud is the only one of Gil Hodges' Mets players to become a manager.
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Gil Hodges.

	On The Path Of Hodges Newsday, June 1, 1990 New Mets manager Bud Harrelson sees Gil Hodges as the role model for the kind of manager he'd like to be. Newsday's Steve Jacobsen looks back at Hodges, and speculates how Harrelson might handle a player like Darryl Strawberry differently than Davey Johnson did.
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Keith Hernandez, Gil Hodges, Davey Johnson, Darryl Strawberry.