Rusty Staub, a former Met with an up-close and personal view of many of the team's strongest players, recalls every year of the Met's history and selects the all-time greatest players in this account. Featured players and managers include Gary Carter, Mike Piazza, Bud Harrelson, Jose Reyes, Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden, Gil Hodges, and Davey Johnson.
Throughout his years, Rusty Staub remained a true icons in New York City baseball lore. Years after his death, it’s still great to pick up a now-digital book of him about people’s faces in the history of the Mets. He surely would have updated his list today to include the likes of Pete Alonso and Jacob deGrom, but even if the book is mostly not about himself, La Grande Orange is still wonderful to hear from and reconnect with after all these years. And he still writes as if he’s in the same room talking baseball to you.