Question: Who Do You Most Identify With?
I had a long talk the other day with a someone who works in marketing for MLB, and they asked me which player I most identify with?
He wasn’t talking about my favorite player, necessarily, or who I feel was best performer… instead, he asked, who did I most connect with? Who did I identify with most? Who played the game the way I feel I would have played?
My favorite Mets player of all time is rotates between Keith Hernandez, Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry – but, I identify most with Wally Backman, because he embodied the underdog, he played hard, he hustled, he was not flashy and he did his job.
What player from the Mets, from any era, did you most identify with?
