The native New Yorker was the first product of the fledgling team's farm system to make the big leagues, in the team's first season, and played for them for 18 seasons, longer than any other Met to date.
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Ed Kranepool, longest-tenured Met and 1969 WS champ, dies at 79
Ed Kranepool, the native New Yorker who became an original 1962 Met as a 17-year-old and spent his entire 18-year Major League career with New York, hitting a critical home run in the 1969 World Series for the victorious Miracle Mets, died on Sunday after suffering from cardiac arrest in