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R.I.P. Mickey Lolich: The Beer-Drinker’s Idol, the Workhorse Lefty, and the One-Year Met Who Wouldn’t Ice His Arm
There are Hall of Famers, and then there are baseball lifers—guys who looked like they could’ve been sitting two stools down from you at the bar, but instead went out every fifth day and took the ball like it owed them money. Mickey Lolich was that guy. Lolich, who passed away on February 4, 2026 at the age of 85, described himself as “the beer-drinker’s idol,” and nobody ever accused him of false advertising. With his sturdy frame, soft belly (which he insisted was “all musc

Mark Rosenman
Feb 44 min read


Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing #53 : The Other Joe Frazier: The Mets Manager Who Won More Than You Remember
Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we brush the dust off the bubble gum cards, flip through the curling pages of old yearbooks, and rediscover the players who once made you pause mid potato knish and mutter, “Hold on… he was a Met, right?” We closed out 2025 by revisiting one of the strangest detours in Mets history, when Tom Seaver, Ron Swoboda, Ralph Kiner and Yogi Berra paid a visit to Sing Sing pri

Mark Rosenman
Jan 45 min read
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