100 Random Cool Mets Things #14: Gil Hodges

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I’m too young to remember Gil, but if you hear anyone and everyone who was around then speak of Gil, they absolutely revere him.

It’s weird to think what could have been.  Does the 1972 team play better?  Does Ya Gotta Believe happen or even need to happen?

Does Gil wind up with some sub-par teams and wind up getting fired in 1975?

We shall never know, but I can’t imagine how devastating his death was at the start of that 1972 season.