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The Score: Hearn's battle is stuff of heroes
The Score: Hearn's battle is stuff of heroes
Maybe you remember Ed Hearn. He played in 49 games and hit .265 as a bespectacled, backup catcher on the last Met team to win a World Series. The man in front of him, Gary Carter, would go on to Cooperstown.
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Mets past players Ed Hearn
24 Hours From Suicide...A Day In The Life of a Met Fan — ... Hearn has multiple issues with kidnen disease. He has Focal Segmental Glomerulusclerosis. To read about his plight and maybe get to meet him along with Doc Gooden in Novemeber check out this article here ...

The heroic struggle of Ed Hearn
Circling The Bases — Folks my age and older might remember Ed Hearn, if not for his role as a dependable backup catcher for the 1986 Mets than at least for his presence in the trade that sent him to Kansas City in exchange for one David Cone. That resume may be the sort of thing that keeps a guy in free lunches and attaboys during his retirement, but for Ed Hearn, baseball is but a tiny footnote in his life story : As the baseball postseason unfolds this month, heroes will be anointed, and star players feted. Nobody will say a word about Hearn, who isn't the best ballplayer to play in this city, ...

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metspolice.com 10/12/2009 — You kids probably never heard of Ed Hearn.  Good solid backup catcher for the '86ers...and went away in a trade for some kid named David Cone who would pitch out of the bullpen in '87. Maybe you remember  Ed Hearn . He played in 49 games and hit .265 as a bespectacled, backup ...