New York (Washington Insider Magazine) —This Friday the death of a former New York Mets player was confirmed. Receiver Ron Hodges, who died due to a brief illness at the age of 74. The news was broken by Jay Horwitz, director of communications for the Mets.
Hodges died at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. The former Mets receiver’s own relatives were with him at the time of his death, and they were the ones who informed Horwitz of the news through a call.
“He was only 74 years old. I’m glad Ron’s four kids were in New York to see his dad. RIP my friend,” reads the text that Horwitz published with the news and that was replicated by the New York Mets’ own account.
Hodges was selected by the New York Mets in the second round of the draft in January 1972. The catcher played his entire career in Queens, hitting .240, with 19 home runs and 147 RBIs in the 12 seasons he wore the uniform. Metropolitan.
Hodges anecdotes with the Mets
Throughout his 12 seasons in the Big Apple, the receiver had good and bad moments. After his retirement he remembered them and told them as an anecdote. He here some of them.
“Playing in that ’73 pennant season in September is my favorite memory of my baseball career,” Hodges said in a 2018 interview with the Society for American Baseball Research.
Hodges was among the players whose career was interrupted by the 50-day midseason strike in 1981. On that occasion, in an interview with the New York Times, the receiver stood by his decision regarding the players’ strike. .
“If nothing happens in the strike talks I will put everyone in the car and return to Virginia. There is not much demand for substitute teachers in summer school. But I used to make $25 to $30 a day during the winter teaching high school physical education. Many days I found myself in math and science. When you are a substitute, you take what they have,” he commented on that occasion.
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