3 Replies to “@dtwohig’s Autographed Baseball Cards #61: Todd Hundley”

  1. Nobody was a bigger Hundley fan than I was, but he was never the same after his elbow operation — which was one of the chief reasons why we got Piazza to begin with. Thank goodness Mets fans’ unfathomable booing of Mike Piazza during that first summer he was here eventually ceased, and he wasn’t deterred from re-signing with us. Hundley was traded to LA in the offseason (if memory serves, he fetched us — in a round-about way, as it was a three-team trade, Cedeno and Benitez. Cedeno was great his first go around with us — and we were able to later package him to get Mike Hampton — and Benitez was very very good until he was very very bad; I think we won that trade), and his years with the Dodgers and later the Cubs were just not the same, at all. It was sad to see. Hundley was always one of my favorites, and remains so. He was the best part of the mid-90s Mets, an era that is always overlooked, but it is when I came of age as a Mets fan, it’s the time when I first saw Shea Stadium up close and personal, and it’s a time that’ll always be special to me.

    1. ^^ everything that guy said.

      I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when he broke the catcher HR season record. Driving down ridge boulevard in bay ridge listening on the radio.

      1. I was lucky enough to be at Shea, in field level seats, with my sister and brother when it happened. We had no idea when we bought the tickets, of course, that we’d be witnessing history. And I’m so glad we did.

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