Old Time Mets: The Under-Appreciated Jim Hickman
If Marv Throneberry symbolized the bumbling incompetence of the early New York Mets, Rod Kanehl the everyman quality, Ed Kranepool the hope for the future, and Roger Craig the frustration, nobody symbolized all of these qualities wrapped into one player the way Jim Hickman did. I always considered Al Jackson the Mets’ best expansion draft choice, but Jim Hickman was probably second. The...
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