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RIP John Stearns 1973 Bills draft pick


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rest in peace..catcher...likely was the best player along with pitcher Craig Swan during a run of some very bad Mets teams in late 70s...as a youngster used to watch Mets on WOR channel 9 (Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, etc ) on cable along with Yankees on WPIX channel 11 (Phill Rizzuto, Frank White)..after Abbott and Costello move re-runs on Sundays (after church of course)...

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23 minutes ago, First Round Bust said:

rest in peace..catcher...likely was the best player along with pitcher Craig Swan during a run of some very bad Mets teams in late 70s...as a youngster used to watch Mets on WOR channel 9 (Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, etc ) on cable along with Yankees on WPIX channel 11 (Phill Rizzuto, Frank White)..after Abbott and Costello move re-runs on Sundays (after church of course)...

As a youngster I used to watch the Mets too on WOR....Stern was likely their best player at the time

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He was really good.........there wasn't any chance he was going to play football he was the 2nd overall pick in the MLB draft by a Phillies organization that was making a lot of good decisions and would go on to win a lot of games and go to a couple World Series and win one during his career.

 

Unfortunately he got traded to the Mess and was on basically the worst team in sports for most of his career.

 

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He was at Mets Old Timers Day a few weeks ago and unfortunately it was clear he was in poor health. Very cool that he had one last moment in the sun.  Apparently he even got into the batting cage.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/john-stearns-ex-mets-all-star-catcher-dead-at-71/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/mets-teammates-react-to-john-stearns-death-heartbroken/

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4 hours ago, First Round Bust said:

rest in peace..catcher...likely was the best player along with pitcher Craig Swan during a run of some very bad Mets teams in late 70s...as a youngster used to watch Mets on WOR channel 9 (Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, etc ) on cable along with Yankees on WPIX channel 11 (Phill Rizzuto, Frank White)..after Abbott and Costello move re-runs on Sundays (after church of course)...

Same here.  And I got the Boston channels too.  Creature double feature was great.  And The Movie Loft was my introduction to jazz with Take Five theme song

I’d flip between yanks, Mets, and red sox

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