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Gary Sheffield has been making the rounds on some podcasts giving his views on baseball as it is played today. Most fans don’t remember that Sheffield once played for the New York Mets and that he actually finished his career with the club.
By the time that Sheffield got to the Mets in 2009, though, he was already 40 years old and beginning his 22nd season. But he was two home runs shy of the magical 500 mark…a number that at one time meant an automatic induction to the Hall of Fame.
Sheffield would attain that goal of 500+ home runs, but was never seriously considered for the Hall of Fame.
Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. Alan's family were avid Brooklyn Dodgers fans and when the Dodgers moved west, the Mets became the team to root for. The Mets have always been a true focal point, Alan even wrote a term paper in high school to analyze what was wrong with the Mets. While at the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the, gulp, Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. New York Mets Mania is a forum for Alan to write about his favorite team and for baseball fans to chime in and provide their thoughts and ideas about New York's Amazin' Mets.
