The Long Beach Press-Telegram caught up with a ’69 Met.
Forty years ago (today), Gaspar celebrates the anniversary of scoring the game-winning run in the tenth inning of Game 4, giving the Mets a 3-1 series lead that they turned into the title a day later.
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Gaspar is blunt in assessing the rest of his baseball career.
“I was very immature,” he said. “I was a single guy with a nickel brain who thought he’d be in New York for the next 10 years. No excuses.”
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