bookending his spot in New York baseball history for the Mets, the Dodgers’ NL successors. FILE - Former Los Angeles Dodgers' Roger Craig, on hand for the Dodgers' Old Timers Game festivities ...

Major League Baseball lifer Roger Craig, who threw the first pitch in New York Mets history and went on to a lengthy managerial career in the big leagues, has died. The Durham, N.C., native was 93.

By Richard Goldstein Roger Craig ... the sixth pick overall since the Mets alternated with Houston, the other new team, in the draft order. The Mets traded Craig to the Cardinals before the ...

At a memorial service for Roger Craig, a writer recalls time ... One night in New York, during those losing years with the Mets, Craig bumped into the old owner, Bill Veeck, who told him that ...

Roger Craig, one of the Original Mets ... in Los Angeles when the Dodgers moved, then returned to New York to pitch for the Mets during the 1962 and 1963 seasons. He threw a combined 27 ...

The 6-foot-4 right-hander also pitched for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia ... Sherri Paschelke, Roger Craig Jr., Teresa Hanvey and Vikki Dancan, seven grandchildren and ...

To most in baseball, Roger Craig is remembered as a manager of ... Tigers and a 20-game loser as an original member of the New York Mets. But since 1969, when he became the first pitching coach ...