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Now that it's after midnight it was 40 years ago today when Gil Hodges passed away.Last weekend I stumbled upon it that Gil Hodges's funeral is on you tube.I never noticed that before as maybe it was recently put on you tube because it being 40 years ago today was coming up.A friend of mine who's not
even a sports fan asked me in 1999(I remember when it was because it was right around the time in late
September when the Mets were fighting for a playoff berth that year)if I ever heard of Gil Hodges.And
naturally I said "Oh sure." "Of course." Then my friend told me when he lived in Brooklyn he was able to see
Gil Hodges's funeral through the window at his house.So when I stumbled upon seeing that Gil Hodges's
funeral was on you tube I was curious to see how he was able to do that.On you tube they showed the
outside of the funeral home of people coming in and people going out.I saw the funeral home was right next
store and right across the street to residential houses so I can see how my friend was able to see the funeral through the window at his house.They showed people from the neighborhood behind barracades
watching the funeral.I e mailed my friend to let him know that I stumbled upon it that Gil Hodges's funeral is
on you tube.He e mailed me back and thanked me for letting him know.He told me in the e mail that at Gil
Hodges's funeral the cameras were set up on top of a King Kullen on the corner of Brooklyn Av.and Tilden.
I saw when I was watching the funeral on you tube that coming in and going out of the funeral home I saw
Tom Seaver,Jerry Koosman,Gary Gentry,Jim McAndrew,Jerry Grote,Duffy Dyer,Bud Harrelson,Yogi Berra,
Joan Payson,Jackie Robinson,Pee Wee Reese,Ralph Branca,Don Newcombe,Carl Erskine,Howard Cosell,
Bowie Kuhn,Mel Allen,and John Lindsay who was mayor of New York City at that time.As you all know to say
the least Gil Hodges was taken away from us way way too soon.He died of a heart attack two days shy of
his 48th birthday.I just turned 48 myself two months ago so for my own personal perspective it really made
me realize how way way too soon that really is.I have been a Mets fan and a sports fan since 1971 so I
remembered 40 years ago when I heard that day that Gil Hodges died I was shocked and even then to say
the least I thought he was taken away from us way way too soon.
even a sports fan asked me in 1999(I remember when it was because it was right around the time in late
September when the Mets were fighting for a playoff berth that year)if I ever heard of Gil Hodges.And
naturally I said "Oh sure." "Of course." Then my friend told me when he lived in Brooklyn he was able to see
Gil Hodges's funeral through the window at his house.So when I stumbled upon seeing that Gil Hodges's
funeral was on you tube I was curious to see how he was able to do that.On you tube they showed the
outside of the funeral home of people coming in and people going out.I saw the funeral home was right next
store and right across the street to residential houses so I can see how my friend was able to see the funeral through the window at his house.They showed people from the neighborhood behind barracades
watching the funeral.I e mailed my friend to let him know that I stumbled upon it that Gil Hodges's funeral is
on you tube.He e mailed me back and thanked me for letting him know.He told me in the e mail that at Gil
Hodges's funeral the cameras were set up on top of a King Kullen on the corner of Brooklyn Av.and Tilden.
I saw when I was watching the funeral on you tube that coming in and going out of the funeral home I saw
Tom Seaver,Jerry Koosman,Gary Gentry,Jim McAndrew,Jerry Grote,Duffy Dyer,Bud Harrelson,Yogi Berra,
Joan Payson,Jackie Robinson,Pee Wee Reese,Ralph Branca,Don Newcombe,Carl Erskine,Howard Cosell,
Bowie Kuhn,Mel Allen,and John Lindsay who was mayor of New York City at that time.As you all know to say
the least Gil Hodges was taken away from us way way too soon.He died of a heart attack two days shy of
his 48th birthday.I just turned 48 myself two months ago so for my own personal perspective it really made
me realize how way way too soon that really is.I have been a Mets fan and a sports fan since 1971 so I
remembered 40 years ago when I heard that day that Gil Hodges died I was shocked and even then to say
the least I thought he was taken away from us way way too soon.
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