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Norm Sherry was born on July 16th, 1931, in New York City. The Sherry family soon moved out West to Los Angeles California where the Sherry brothers played baseball & went to high school. In 1950 the five foot eleven right-handed hitting catcher, was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a free agent. His bother Norm would eventually get signed by the Dodgers as well. Military Service: Norm went off to serve two years in the Military during the Korean War Conflict with the US Army, returning to baseball in 1954. He spent most of the decade of the fifties in the minor leagues, hitting 44 HRs with 200 RBIs batting .245.  MLB Career:   In 1959 Norm played in two games at the big-league level for the World Champion Dodgers.  In the second game of the season, Sherry was hit by a pitch in his first at bat. In his next at bat he hit a two-run single for his first career hit. He was sent back down & returned in the Dodgers 150th game of...

Saturday May 21st , 2016: The Mets (23-18) had taken the opener in this series against the Milwaukee Brewers (18-24) after a rough week losing two of three to the Washington Nationals at home, and a skip of losing six of seven. the previous week. Not a good week for the defending N.L. Champions. Curtis Granderson led off the game with yet another home run, his second this week, his 8th on the year. But the Brewers came back right away as Ramon Flores hit his first career HR off Jacob deGrom to put Milwaukee up 2-1. They tacked on two more in the 4th inning as Flores added a sac fly & Jonathann Villare had an RBI single. In the home 4th Yoenis Cespedes singled & with Neil Walker up Pitcher Zach Davis threw a wild pitch advancing Cespedes. Asdrubal Cabrera then singled him in to make it 4-2. In the 6th, Cespedes continued to show how good & important he is to this team, as he belted his club leading 14th HR of the year, a two run shot tying the game at four. That...

  Jacob Seth Lugo   was born November 17th, 1989, in Shreveport Louisiana to his parents Ben & Vicki Lugo. The six foot four, right-handed Lugo attended Centenary College at Louisiana where he was studying to be a landman, majoring in geology.  He was also a punter for his high school football team & a soccer goalie as well. He was spotted by Mets scout Jimmy Nelson in the deep South & got an invite for a try out. The six foot four, right-handed pitcher signed out of a division 3 School (Centenary College of Louisiana) where he was signed in the 34th round of the 2011 draft, the 1032nd pick overall. I n 2011 he was diagnosed with Spondylolisthesis which is a displacement of vertebra in the spine, it required ten hours of surgery for repair. After the procedure he was bed ridden for three months & recuperated at his mother's home. Quotes- Seth  Lugo  when he found out about the surgery- "Whoa. Hold on, I don't know if...

Donald Wellington Shaw was born on born on February 23, 1944, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  By the time Shaw was in high school he his family had relocated to Reseda, California. The six-foot left hander attended San Diego State University being a teammate of Graig Nettles with the Aztecs.  In 1965, Don was drafted by the New York Mets in the 35th round. That year Shaw went 6-2 at the A ball level, at both Marion & Auburn where he was a teammate of Nolan Ryan. Mets farm director, Eddie Stanky convinced Shaw he would make it in the big leagues if he was a full-time short reliever.  1967: That March Shaw went to Spring Training with two other young promising Mets pitchers in Tom Seaver & Jerry Koosman. Mets coach & former catcher said Shaw's sinker was a "worm killer".  By now Shaw had become one of the Mets Chairman of the Board, M. Donald Grant’s favorite players. Shaw soon found himself on the '67 Mets big league staff....

Otis Bernard Gilkey was born on September 24, 1966 in St. Louis Missouri. The hometown baseball star signed with the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1984.  MLB Career: It took the six-foot right-hand hitter to get to the major leagues, after batting .295 at AAA Louisville in 1990. In 1991 he was back at AAA but then got to the big leagues for good seeing action in 81 games that year with the Cardinals. By 1992 he was the team's regular left fielder hitting over .300 for two straight seasons. In 1992 he hit .320 with a .364 on base % while stealing 15 bases. In 1993 he hit .305 hitting 40 doubles (6th most in the NL) & scored 99 runs. In the outfield he led all left fielders with 19 assists, was third in put outs (207) . After leading the league with five errors in left in 1992 he was second with eight in 1993. After an off year during the 1994 baseball strike shortened season where he hit just .253, he improved to .298 (with a .358 on base %...