Joan Hodges, the widow of former Mets supervisor and Corridor of Famer Gil Hodges, died on Saturday night time after a protracted sickness, the Mets introduced on Sunday. She was 10 days shy of her 96th birthday.
The Mets held a second of silence for her earlier than Sunday’s sport in opposition to the Pirates.
“We're grateful that Joan was capable of see Gil inducted into the Corridor of Fame in July,” Mets president Sandy Alderson stated in a press release. “That meant a lot to her and the complete Mets and Hodges household. She was a real baseball fan and nonetheless adopted her two favourite groups, the Mets and Dodgers. We ship our condolences to her daughters, Irene and Cindy, her son Gil Jr. and the remainder of the Hodges household.”
Gil Hodges, an eight-time All-Star for the Brooklyn Dodgers who led the Mets to their first World Sequence championship in 1969, died in 1972 on the age of 47. He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Corridor of Fame this summer season, with his daughter Irene giving a speech on his behalf in Cooperstown.
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