Monday, February 20, 2012
Gary Carter’s Signing Was the Product of a Scout’s Scheming - NYTimes.com - John Klima - The ploy was simple. Zuk loved Carter, but he did not want anybody else to know how much he loved him. So while Carter played that spring, Zuk spied on him. He ordered his associate to no longer attend his games. Instead, Zuk scouted Carter with binoculars in his car or hid in the bushes and trees, careful not to let his cigar smoke give him away. Now he hoped Carter would fall to the Expos in the June draft.
'Kid' lived a life of grace and giving | FOX Sports - Bob Klapisch -Carter was a Met who lived beyond the excesses of the '80s. There were no drugs in his world, no booze, no girlfriends on the side. Kid was straight out of Ozzie and Harriet, faithful to his wife, Sandy, devoted to his children, always smiling, bestowing corny nicknames upon anyone who came his way.
John Koch: 'The Kid' In All of Us - HuffingtonPost.com - The "Mets" were, of course, the miracle New York Mets, a team built not on Sabermetrics, but on Tug McGraw's premise that "You gotta believe." And believe I did. "Carter" was, of course, Gary Carter, who, at the time, was the best catcher in baseball, and eventually would become one of the greatest to ever play the game.
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