RIP John Stearns 1973 Bills draft pick

[Solomon Grundy]

Stearns died of cancer at age 71. 4x all star with Mets. Drafted by Bills, but opted to play baseball. Nicknamed "Bad Dude"!! 

Edited September 16, 2022 by Solomon Grundy

[dwight in philly]

12 minutes ago, Solomon Grundy said:

Stearns died of cancer at age 71. 4x all star with Mets. Drafted by Bills, but opted to play baseball. Nicknamed "Bad Dude"!! 

Yep.. remember him , think he was a very late round ;pick.. and had a great career with the Mets 

[First Round Bust]

rest in peace..catcher...likely was the best player along with pitcher Craig Swan during a run of some very bad Mets teams in late 70s...as a youngster used to watch Mets on WOR channel 9 (Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, etc ) on cable along with Yankees on WPIX channel 11 (Phill Rizzuto, Frank White)..after Abbott and Costello move re-runs on Sundays (after church of course)...

[Craig Oi]

23 minutes ago, First Round Bust said:

rest in peace..catcher...likely was the best player along with pitcher Craig Swan during a run of some very bad Mets teams in late 70s...as a youngster used to watch Mets on WOR channel 9 (Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, etc ) on cable along with Yankees on WPIX channel 11 (Phill Rizzuto, Frank White)..after Abbott and Costello move re-runs on Sundays (after church of course)...

As a youngster I used to watch the Mets too on WOR....Stern was likely their best player at the time

[BuffaloBill]

May he RIP 

[Beast]

He was a tough baseball player. RIP.

[TN Bills Fan]

Had the record for most stolen bases by a catcher for a few years.  One of my favorite players on some awful Met teams.

 

[BADOLBILZ]

 

He was really good.........there wasn't any chance he was going to play football he was the 2nd overall pick in the MLB draft by a Phillies organization that was making a lot of good decisions and would go on to win a lot of games and go to a couple World Series and win one during his career.

 

Unfortunately he got traded to the Mess and was on basically the worst team in sports for most of his career.

 

[billsbackto81]

This guy was more deserving of the nickname "Nails". 

 

Fond childhood memories being the Mets fan I am. 

 

RIP...

[SinceThe70s]

He was at Mets Old Timers Day a few weeks ago and unfortunately it was clear he was in poor health. Very cool that he had one last moment in the sun.  Apparently he even got into the batting cage.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/john-stearns-ex-mets-all-star-catcher-dead-at-71/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/mets-teammates-react-to-john-stearns-death-heartbroken/

[stevewin]

If you go back to the 1973 draft thread there were many people upset we drafted him.

 

 

RIP

[Pete]

4 hours ago, First Round Bust said:

rest in peace..catcher...likely was the best player along with pitcher Craig Swan during a run of some very bad Mets teams in late 70s...as a youngster used to watch Mets on WOR channel 9 (Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, etc ) on cable along with Yankees on WPIX channel 11 (Phill Rizzuto, Frank White)..after Abbott and Costello move re-runs on Sundays (after church of course)...

Same here.  And I got the Boston channels too.  Creature double feature was great.  And The Movie Loft was my introduction to jazz with Take Five theme song

I’d flip between yanks, Mets, and red sox

[1st&ten]

Yep I remember watching him, he was a really good baseball player. RIP John Stearns.