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Ron Swoboda had come up with the Mets in 1965 as one of Casey Stengel's "Youth of America" players & immediately became a popular figure on the young ball club. Swoboda led the team with 19 HRs that season & was being labeled the slugger of the future on a poor team that was looking for a star. Things didn't quite work out that way but Swoboda did have some memorable moments in his career. Never known for his glove work, he would make one of the best catches in World Series history preserving Tom Seaver's 1969 Game #4 win at Shea Stadium. In 1968, he had a great start to the season as well. At the time Gil Hodges was in his first moth of managing the Mets & was observing the players he had to work with. New York opened the 1968 season in San Francisco facing the former NL New York club the Giants. It had only been ten years since the Giants & Dodgers had left New York. In a great Opening Day pitching matchup, Tom Seaver went up against Juan Maric...

Edwin Douglas Charles was born on April 29, 1933, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Charles grew up in a poor house in a family of nine children in the segregated south. He suffered the serious conditions of racism but overcame his hardships. Ed was once a school dropout who later educated himself to earning a college degree later in life. His childhood hero was Jackie Robinson whose Brooklyn Dodgers played Spring Training in Charles childhood town. He would follow Robinson out of the ballpark onto the team bus with the other black children in awe of their hero. Quotes-  E d Charles: On seeing the Brooklyn Dodgers train pulling away- “So now we’re walking down the platform, looking in the windows trying to see where Jackie was seated. Finally, we come to the right coach, and there is Jackie, playing cards. We waved and, you know, he waved back to us. Then the train starts pulling out, and we start slowly walking with it, just waving to Jackie. The train picked up speed. We k...

Jonathan Gregory Davis was born April 27th, 1993, in Elk Grove, California. The six-foot, three right-handed hitter is primarily a third baseman. But he can play at first base as well as the outfield & DH. He was drafted by the Houston Astros as a fifth round pick in 2011 out of Cal Fullerton State University. There he played from 2012 - 2014 & was also used as a pitcher. Davis was an impressive hitter in his minor league career, after blowing through the low levels of the minors he hit 26 HRs with 101 RBIs & batted .289 in 2015 at A ball Lancaster in the Advanced California League.  The next year he hit 23 HRs with 81 RBIs at AA Corpus Christi. After a great start in 2017 he was pushed up to AAA Fresno, where he hit 5 HRs with 18 RBIs in just 16 games. MLB Career: He was called up by the Astros on August 5th, 2017, making his debut in a 4-3 loss to Toronto. On August 24th, he hit his first career HR & hit another the next day, helping the Astros ...