Well, maybe they offered him a discount…but Newsday says
Ron Hunt – the man who recorded the first hit and home run by a Mets player at Shea Stadium – wanted a pair of Shea seats for keepsakes. The seats sold for $869 per pair.
“They wanted money,” Hunt told Newsday, “and I told them, ‘I played for 7,000 dollars [a year] and had to play for four years to get a pension. If you can’t get me two seats, then stick them up your — .”
They told me that everybody was buying them, and I said, ‘I’m not everybody,’ ” said Hunt, who refused to specify whom he spoke with from the Mets. “I’m the first All-Star. There is no second there.”
There’s plenty more (and some Yankees gripes too) so check out the article.
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