Gil Hodges pulls Cleon Jones July 30, 1969

[YourKutscheetStinks]

I read that Gil Hodges gay lover was Sandy Amoros

[IfYouThinkItsButter]

@YourKutscheetStinks no Gil Hodges was gay for Charles Nelson Reilly and Wink Martindale.

[46spoony]

It is well known that Ralph Houk and Yogi Berra were gay lovers for years.

[SecretariatOnSteriod]

@46spoony Gil Hodges true lover was Greg Goosen who used to Goose Hodges with Donn Clendenons hammer.

[YoMamasHairyAsshole]

@46spoony Joan Hodges wrote in her autobiography that her late husband Gil Hodges loved to blow well hung Niggers in the bathroom at his bowling alley.

[WeaselSqueezingFagot]

@YoMamasHairyAsshole Gil Hodges was one of many bisexual New York Mets.Tom Seaver,Cal Koonce,Ed Kranepool,Art Shamsky,Rusty Staub,Mike Piazza,Jerry Grote also loved dick.

[Ariamaluum]

@BrooksFrankandBoog70. Must be a Yankee fan?

[UsuxMyBallsack]

@Ariamaluum I heard Ron Bloomberg say that Art Shamsky used to fuck Gil Hodges with a Louisville slugger bat.

[Ariamaluum]

@UsuxMyBallsack. Okay what about Ralph Houk, Thurman Munson or Bobby Murcer? You full of it.

[UsuxMyBallsack]

@Ariamaluum Ron Bloomberg told me that Thurman Munson used to love to choke Fred Stanleys "chicken" during rain delays and between doubleheaders.

[Ariamaluum]

@UnCircumsizedSmegma. I'm not sure about their sexuality. Most white owners liked minorities in compromising situations. True with managers and coaches. I know this: I couldn't be a open heterosexual and be able to play at a high level like a Crosley Field, Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, Shea, Chavez Ravine, Fulton Co., Astrodome, Memorial, Royal Stadium, Forbes, Sportsman/Busch, and others with them white ladies going after my teammates like Art Shamsky when I'm the star? No way!

[SackOfDonkeyCocks]

@Ariamaluum Gil Hodges is kept out of the baseball hof because he was bisexual.

Jerry Smith is kept out of the football hall of fame and Mike Piazza will have a hard time getting inducted in 2013 because they are 100% grade 1 caliber Faggot as packers.

[Ariamaluum]

@UnCircumsizedSmegma. I think it was the other way concerning Tommy Agee.

[ShamWasBetter]

Gil Hodges had a heart attack after getting buttphucked in Spring Training 1972 by Art Shamsky and Rusty Staub after snorting up an eightball of cocaine.

[momike99]

Cleon Jones had a world of talent, but never fufilled his potential.

[shabeki]

Great vid. Thanks for sharing it.

[kevinvanmeter]

It was M. Donald Grant that drove Hodges to a heart attack.

[Nmber6]

I was at this disaster of a double header. The Houston pitcher (Larry Dierker) hit a Grand Slam HR! But it's one of my best childhood memories. That's part of being a Mets fan: Great memories from great losses. But after Gil pulled Jones, they went on a tear and won 45 of the next 64 games. What a great summer it was, 1969. I was young enough (and foolish enough) to believe that every summer would be like that one.

[Waltbeej]

I was 21, perhaps the greatest managerial move ever - it spurred them to their miracle run - does Swoboda, to be kind, a poor fielder, make the catch if this didn't happen? When I was 9, last year in Bklyn,buddy & me got on the bus, got up the guts to knock on his door - he wasn't home, but Joan fed us milk & cookies

[yomamadontfuk]

MrDuky to get it straight Gil Hodges was upset at Cleon Jones cause he was sucking on Joe Pignantano's cock in the Mets clubhouse before the game that afternoon.Ed Kranepool caught them and told Yogi Berra and Rube Walker and Gil Hodges said Cleons breath smelled like cum.

[jpwjr1199]

what's wrong with you? lol

[mrduky]

I was at this Game, one of two played that day against the Houston Astros. Mets got their Clocks cleaned (lost both games) It was one of 2 dips in one of the most memorable pennant runs of all time. (2nd was Bob Moose of the Pirates no-hitting them in Sept.)

I remember Gil walking out of the dugout and approaching the pitcher's mound. He kept right on walking to the outfield and walked Cleon back to the dugout. He apparently thought Cleon had "jaked" it while chasing down an extra base hit.

[McMillian5]

Hodges has lost control of the team by the time he died.

[grabit1]

I was 15 when this happened, but don't remember this "incident." Too hung up on Willie Mays getting to 600, being a Giants fan growing up in the S. F. area at that time.

Did you know that Cleon was one of the few who threw left-handed, but batter right-handed?

No wonder Gil was perplexed. But it all came out okay in the end, and Cleon hit .340, and the Mets won it all. That's baseball.

[JRobelen]

No surprise you didn't see this in the Bay area. The "highlights reel" in those days was usually just somebody reading the scores in a bad jacket.

[Vinpo58]

Terrific story. Shows one of the reasons the Mets went from a laughingstock to world champions within two years of Gil Hodges becoming their manager.

[57Will]

Funny story! I remember this incident. Jones, who went on to finish third in the league in hitting that year at .340, didn't put up much of a fuss, but pretty much followed Hodges back to the Mets dugout. (You think any big league manager today would be able to get away with such a thing? NOT!)Anyway, Hodges made his point, and the rest is history. Hodges definitely should be in the Hall of Fame.

[Ariamaluum]

Poor Cleon, must be tough being the only open heterosexual besides Tug McGraw on a team filled with repressed guys like Gil.

[rewturn]

Gil Hodges should be in the Hall of Fame!!!!!!!!!

[mwuttke]

Gil Hodges' widow is still alive, we lost Gil WAY too soon.

[BrassPie]

Gil Hodges' widow is still alive, we lost Gil WAY too soon.

I agree. We would have beaten Oakland in 1973 if he had still been alive.

[reprobacious]

We also would've beaten them in '72 if Rusty Staub hadn't gotten injured & killed the reg season.

[Ariamaluum]

I doubt it. The pitchers loved Gil but not the position players. With Yogi, the pitchers hated him but the position players loved him.

[tonydel99]

Bullshit! Cleon's feet didn't hurt, he was just lazy!

[tkfaclark]

ABSOLUTELY!!!

[Ariamaluum]

So was Gil Hodges explanation to his wife.