Literary birthday greetings: Davey Johnson

January 30, 2011

The man who led the Mets to the 1986 World Championship in 1986 turns 68 today.

Just curious: how come no one raised much of a fuss when he hit 43 home runs in 1973 for the Atlanta Braves? He previous high had been 18 and he never hit more than 15 after that record-setting season. When Brady Anderson hit 50 in 1996, all sorts of eyebrows were raised…

Anyway, Johnson was one of several Mets who capitalized on the ’86 season, publishing Bats with Peter Golenbock. It was a fair-to-middling recap of the team’s “renegade” season, one of the few that they were viewed as bad boys rather than doormats.

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