When I met with Ron Hunt last November and discussed the Parkinson’s Disease he was battling, I asked him if he wanted Mets fans from way back to pray for him.
“No,” Hunt said. “Just tell them I said hi. I don’t know them. They don’t know me personally. Just tell them I said hi. I’ll never forget you.”
The response to that story, with fans emailing me to express their love and support for him, was easily the largest I’ve seen — well, at least in terms of good-hearted reaction — in my professional career.