David Wright is a baseball player, but in a lot of ways, for the Mets and its loyal fanbase, he is much more. For an entire generation of us—my generation especially—he was the franchise. He personified everything that we loved about the Mets, and everything that we loved about baseball. While my fandom journey began, fortuitously, right around the time of the Mike Piazza trade, Wright, a homegrown talent and a top prospect, elevated my love for the team to new heights. Wright was the closest thing I can imagine to what the earliest generation of Mets fans felt about Seaver, an icon and full embodiment of the team whose jersey he donned every day.
David Wright number retirement ceremony puts a touching bow on an iconic career
