A Farewell to Mike Piazza

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A Farewell to Mike Piazza
And One And One posted 5/25/2008 from online.wsj.com [flag]
In the spring of 1998, when rumors began circulating that the New York Mets were close to acquiring Mike Piazza from the Florida Marlins, I didn't want him. To anybody who asked, I stormed that the Mets already had a catcher in Todd Hundley, soon to return from a bum elbow, and what did the Mets need with another one? [link]

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