Tag: Tim Foli

OTD 2018: Mets Icon Rusty Staub Passes Away

On March 29, 2018 (Opening Day of the baseball season), Rusty Staub, one of the most popular players ever to wear the orange and blue of the New York Mets, passed away in a West Palm Beach, Florida hospital from multiple organ failure just three days shy of his 74th birthday. He had spent eight weeks in the hospital prior to his death. The Mets had obtained Daniel Joseph Staub before the 1972...

OTD in 1975: Mets Trade Rusty Staub To Tigers

Ask a Mets fan about the darkest days in franchise history. Many will have June 15, 1977 listed somewhere, the day the Mets traded Tom Seaver to the Reds. Some might point to November 1, 2015 (WS loss to the Royals), October 21, 1973 (WS loss to Oakland), or, gasp, October 26, 2000 (WS loss to the Yankees). I’ll put December 12, 1975 near the top of the list. On that day, the Mets, dealt...