The passing of any member of the 1969 Mets is going to evoke sadness, but the death of Ed Kranepool was a gut punch to baby boomers. He played 18 ...

Ed Kranepool, who jumped from a Bronx high school to the big leagues with the original Mets at the age of 17 and who spent ...

There from the inaugural season and part of the 1969 World Series team, Ed Kranepool represented the history of the New York ...

What is it like to play for — and root for — the losingest team in baseball history? That question is taking on relevance for ...

920 stands up well against the fully plaqued Orlando Cepeda and Gil Hodges. Unlike Cepeda and Hodges ... a year in Toronto at home, in front of family, in front of my country,” he said.

Ed Kranepool, the native New Yorker who became an original 1962 Met as a 17-year-old and spent his entire 18-year Major ...

Ed Kranepool, the only original New York Met who also would play for the 1969 Miracle Mets and the “Ya Gotta Believe” 1973 ...

When 44-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn joined the Mets in 1965, Kranepool gave him his No. 21 and switched to No.

Ed Kranepool, one of the original New York Mets and the longest-tenured player in franchise history, died Sunday at age 79. The Mets announced his death Monday, saying that Kranepool died after ...

Ed Kranepool, the longest-tenured player in New York Mets history and a member of the Miracle Mets when they won the 1969 ...

The longest tenured player in Mets history - appearing in 1,853 games - had been living in Boca Raton where he suffered ...

A year earlier, the expansion Angels had won 70 games, and the Mets had brought in some big names — Gil Hodges and Roger Craig ... two dozen members of his family, he fired it to Mike Piazza ...