Blogging Mets · Feb 21, 2017
THE List: Top 10 Mets Team Disappointments
(From the archives. Originally published 7/12/11)
Gil Hodges Dies: 4/2/72
People remember where they were on 9/11 or when JFK was assassinated, but I remember where I was when Hodges died. I was watching some kind of quiz show (it might have been a college bowl-type show) on the Mets flagship WOR when they “interrupted this broadcast for breaking news” that Hodges died. I still think of it whenever they break into a show. Hodges died just before the start of the 1972 season of a heart attack at age 47. Had he lived, I believe he would have been the manager for 20 years, providing the type of stability the team lacked during those awful years in the mid 1970s through the early 1980s.