Hello to all my fellow sadistic Mets fans. Its time for the farewell Ryan Church ( you will be missed) edition of “This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty” So lets give a warm Bon Jour to Jeff ” Frenchy” Francour and get on with it .
First off Birthday wishes go out to former utility infielder for the ’63 team – Brooklyn’s own Ted “Liev” Schreiber (1938)
also another year older is utility infielder ( ever notice we have had as many utility infielders as Jimmy Carter had liver pills?) Jack “Heide Ho !” Heidemann (1949)
former reliever who was good for the Angels but sucked for us – Donne ” Hit the ” Wall (1967)
and lastly Mark ” insert your quip here” Little (1972)
New York Mets traded infielder Chuck “King of the ” Hiller to the Philadelphia Phillies for ex Yankee Phil Linz on July 11, 1967.
New York Mets sold Jim ” FRIG YOU !” Fregosi to the Texas Rangers on July 11, 1973.- Yeah M. Donald Grant that Nolan Ryan deal really worked out for us !!!
New York Mets signed free agent utility infielder ( SEE ANOTHER ONE !!) Bill ” JOY ” Almon on July 11, 1980. – By the was , that move was the lynch pin of ” THE MAGIC IS BACK” era !!
New York Mets traded Gene Walter to the Seattle Mariners for Edwin Nuñez on July 11, 1988.
And upon hearing of the aquisition of Jeff Francour Mo Vaughn ordered 5 dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts 3 pounds of  french fries and a 2 liter of Diet Coke ( he’ dieting”
5 comments
rustyjr
7/11/2009-10:01am at 10:01 am (UTC -4)
btw anyone hear Evan Roberts rant on Old Timers Day?? and go to http://www.metspolice.com he has a riff on banner day
metfreak
7/11/2009-10:15am at 10:15 am (UTC -4)
Good for Mo Vaughn I wish him luck maybe he should try frog legs
fongy2
7/11/2009-10:43am at 10:43 am (UTC -4)
Ah Edwin Nunez! Big,hard thrower
who was once one of Seattles top
prospects who typified the”Million
Dollar Arm-Ten Cent Head”Phrase.
And was I the only one who’d get a
Bill Almon card in every baseball
card pack as a kid???
Nice job as always,Rusty!
My favorite part of this blog!
GravediggerHebner
7/11/2009-10:53am at 10:53 am (UTC -4)
Ah, the Bill Almon days. Those were good days. Yeah. I had forgotten that he played for the Mets twice, 7 years apart. That first stint (.170/.225/.232) was stellar.
fongy2
7/11/2009-11:24am at 11:24 am (UTC -4)
Yeah BUT I think he graduated
from an Ivy league school!