Edward Emil Kranepool was born on November 8,1944 and is an American former professional baseball player.
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32 Facts About Ed Kranepool
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Ed Kranepool spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Mets.
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Ed Kranepool was predominantly a first baseman, but he played in the outfield.
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At age 17, Ed Kranepool was six years younger than the next-youngest '62 Met, a reflection of the disastrous decision of Met management to select mostly older veterans in the expansion draft.
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Ed Kranepool grounded out to Cubs second baseman Ken Hubbs in his only at bat.
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Ed Kranepool began the 1963 season splitting playing time with "Marvelous" Marv Throneberry at first base and Duke Snider in right field.
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Ed Kranepool continued to hit better following his late season call-up, and managed to bring his batting average up to.
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Ed Kranepool played just 15 games with the Bisons, hitting three home runs and batting.
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On his last day with the Bisons, Ed Kranepool played all 18 innings of a double header, before getting the call to come to Shea Stadium where the Mets were playing two games the next day.
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Ed Kranepool played first in the second game of the double header, which went 23 innings.
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Ed Kranepool ended up playing all 23 innings, going four for 14 over the two games.
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Ed Kranepool gave up his number 21 to Spahn, who had worn that number his entire career, and began wearing number 7.
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Ed Kranepool was named the Mets sole representative on the National League All-Star team at the 1965 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, though he did not play.
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Ed Kranepool was part of a trade package along with Amos Otis and Bob Heise when the Mets attempted to acquire the Braves' Joe Torre who went to the St Louis Cardinals for Orlando Cepeda instead.
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Ed Kranepool considered retirement, but instead, he accepted his reassignment, and batted.
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Ed Kranepool bounced back with perhaps his best season in 1971, batting.
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In 1973, Ed Kranepool lost his starting job at first base to John Milner.
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Ed Kranepool still managed to play 100 games and make 320 plate appearances backing up Milner at first and Cleon Jones in left.
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Ed Kranepool was again a regular first baseman with the Mets that season, batting.
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Ed Kranepool compiled his best offensive years from 1974 through 1977, hitting.
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Ed Kranepool was the last of the 1962 Mets to remain with the team, and the last of that team to retire from Major League Baseball.
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Ed Kranepool had reportedly had some friction with the team's ownership group, led by Lorinda DeRoulet who was controlling the team after the death of her mother, Joan Payson.
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Ed Kranepool caught flak for a 1986 campaign commercial he did for New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato in which he appeared wearing a New York Mets uniform.
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Ed Kranepool appeared on Saturday Night Live in a cameo appearance, being interviewed by Bill Murray during a skit filmed during spring training in 1979, regarding Chico Escuela's tell all book, Bad Stuff 'bout The Mets.
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Ed Kranepool appeared as himself in a 1999 episode of Everybody Loves Raymond along with several other members of the 1969 Mets.
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Ed Kranepool made a living after retirement as a stockbroker and restaurateur, is currently working for a credit card processing company.
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Ed Kranepool was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1990 and is currently living in Old Westbury, New York.
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Ed Kranepool was surpassed by Mets third baseman David Wright, with 1777, and, in 2017, by Jose Reyes, who has 1491 hits as a member of the Mets.
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In 2017 Ed Kranepool had a toe removed due to an abscess that became infected.
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On May 7,2019, Ed Kranepool was successfully transplanted with a living donor kidney at Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York under the leadership of transplant surgeons Frank S Darras, MD and Wayne C Waltzer, MD.
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