Afternoon Baseball

Just seasoned. Hit a home run tonight for the Mets, who keep winning games.
The crazy thing is not that he's the oldest player to homer, but the record was held by a pitcher. Jack Quinn was 46 years old in 1930 when he blasted one. Quinn, actually, played three more years, pitching in his last game at 50 years, 2 days.
Not just a trivia fact, Quinn played with Ruth on the Yankees, going 18-10 in 1920 when he was already 36 and the fifth-oldest player in the league. 11 and 12 years later, he led the league in saves. Overall, he was 247-218 with a 3.29 ERA, 243 complete games, 216 games finished and 57 saves.

Anyways, I hope Franco keeps hitting some bombs. My love for his playing at his age has been mentioned on this blog in the past, as you can see. And now that he's joined the Mets, they have had a Franco on the team all but one year since 1990 (John - 1990-2004; Matt - 1997-2000; Julio - 2006).