No one a Met more through and through than Ed Kranepool
Ed Kranepool, the legendary Mets player who died Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest while attending a Mets game, recently reflected on his first airplane trip and first major league game. Just 17 years old, he'd graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx and had just signed with the Mets for $85,000 as a […]
Ed Kranepool, Mets legend who won 1969 World Series, dead at 79
Ed Kranepool, who burst onto the big leagues at age 17 from his Bronx high school as a founding member of the Mets and spent all 18 of his major league seasons with Flushing, died of cardiac arrest Sunday in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 79 years old. Kranepool, a left-handed first baseman who was […]