Travel day for me, so Generic Content while Media Goon ([email protected]) minds the store.
This first one is so sad. I was looking something else up and stumbled across this. Sniff.
He was only 34. He could have been a Mets pinch hitter into his 40’s and caught some Bobby V playoffs in his early 40’s.
”I’m sad, but not bitter,” Mazzilli said by telephone from his home in Greenwich, Conn. ”I expected this, but it still is definitely emotional for me because this is the final statement. So, I’m sad.
”But how can you regret playing 13 years in the big leagues? I’m not saying it’s over, but my career has been fantastic. I have a wife and a child and a home in Greenwich, and they all came from baseball. And I want to thank everybody I was associated with. I want to thank New York.”
So, at the age of 34, after playing with the Mets for eight and a half years in two tours of duty, the onetime star from Lincoln High in Brooklyn closed his playing career with the Mets with 89 home runs, 449 runs batted in, a batting average of .259 and some unfulfilled expectations.
