Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Edward Emil Kranepool spent his entire Major League Baseball career for the new york mets . he was predominantly a first baseman, but he also played in the outfield . born in the Bronx, at 17, Kranepool was six years younger than the next-youngest ’62 Met . he made his major league debut wearing number 21 on September 22, 1962 . by may 5, Throneberry’s in Tim Harkness was awarded the first base job, with Snider shifting to left field and Kranepool becoming the Mets’ everyday right fielder . but this arrangement did not last, as he was sent down Kranepool was demoted to Buffalo with a .139 batting average . he hit three home runs and batting .352 to earn promotion back to the Mets . played all 18 innings of Kranepool played all 23 innings, going four for 14 over the two games . in all, he played 50 innings in two days . “i wish we could have played another 40 minutes”, he later quoted as saying Kranepool batted .257 with 10 home runs and 45 RBIs . he was named the Mets sole representative on the National League All-Star team . by midseason, he had been batting in 1966, Kranepool paced the Mets with a career high 16 home runs . he helped them avoid a last place finish and 100 losses for the first time in franchise history (95) he also led Kranepool hit a home run in game three of the series, a 5-0 win for the Mets . he considered retirement, but instead accepted his reassignment . Kranepool had only 52 plate appearances in 43 games for the season . he led the national league with a .998 fielding percentage . the late-career demotion marked a turning point for Kra Kranepool lost his starting job at first base to John Milner in 1973 . he still managed to play 100 games and make 320 plate appearances . the Mets won the NL East, and faced the Cincinnati Kranepool was a regular first baseman with the Mets that season, batting .292 with 10 home runs and 49 RBIs . he compiled his best offensive years from 1974 through 1977 . Kranepool hit .396 as a pinch hitter from 1974 through 1978 . he became the last of the 1969 Miracle Mets . when he retired after the 1979 season at the age of 34, no other Met player has played for the team for that long . he was the last of the 1962 Mets to remain with the team, and the last to retire from baseball . his pinch-hits kept dropping in . the team was sold after the 1979 season to a group headed by Nelson Doubleday Jr. and Fred Wilpon . Kranepool had career fielding percentages of .994 as a first baseman and .97 ad: “foamy: more than thick and rich enough for New York’s heavy hitters” another Gillette commercial featured Kranepool trying to shave using Foamy during a blackout Kranepool caught flak for 1986 campaign commercial he did for new york senator alfonse d’amato . commercial was quickly pulled following protest from the Mets’ ownership group . also appeared on he ranks third on the all-time Mets hit list with 1418 . surpassed by Met third baseman David Wright, with 1777, and, in 2017, by José Reyes, who has 1491 hits as a at the time, Kranepool was on a waiting list for a kidney transplant . on may 7, 2019, he was successfully transplanted with a living donor kidney . In 10 years Kranepool has a chance to be a star . in 10 years Goossen has the chance to become 30.”