36 Facts About Rusty Staub

Daniel Joseph "Rusty" Staub was an American professional baseball player and television color commentator.

Rusty Staub played in Major League Baseball for 23 seasons as a right fielder, designated hitter, and first baseman.

Rusty Staub was an original member of the Montreal Expos and the team's first star.

Rusty Staub signed his first professional contract with the expansion team Houston Colt.

Rusty Staub spent the 1962 season in the Class B Carolina League, and at season's end he was named one of the league's all-stars.

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Rusty Staub became only the second major league rookie since 1900 to play 150 games as a teenager; the first had been Bob Kennedy, 19, with the Chicago White Sox in 1940.

Rusty Staub did not get along with Harry Walker, hired by the Astros on June 17,1968, to move from hitting coach to manager.

Rusty Staub was embraced as the expansion team's first star, and became one of the most popular players in their history.

Rusty Staub was named to the All-Star Game for the third straight year, although he did not play.

Rusty Staub finished in the top ten for the National League in numerous categories, such as 10th in batting average, 4th in OBP, total bases, walks, but right field categories putouts, assists and errors.

Rusty Staub played 160 games in right field, having 145 complete games in 156 games started for a total of 1,374.

Rusty Staub was named to the All-Star Game for the fourth straight year, having a pinch hit appearance in the third inning, going 0-for-1.

Rusty Staub appeared in 160 games in right field, starting 156 while having 145 complete games for a total of 1,374.

Rusty Staub was named to the All-Star Game for the fifth straight time, although he did not play.

Rusty Staub is the first player to have won the Expos Player of the Year award.

Rusty Staub played through the pain for several weeks until X-rays revealed the broken bone.

Rusty Staub returned to the lineup for Game 2, but had to throw underhanded and weakly for the remainder of the World Series.

Rusty Staub was traded with Bill Laxton to the Detroit Tigers for Mickey Lolich and Billy Baldwin on December 12,1975.

Rusty Staub was voted to start the 1976 All-Star Game, where he went 2-for-2.

In 1978, Rusty Staub became the first player to play in all 162 regular-season games exclusively as a designated hitter.

Not playing the field at all proved beneficial, as Rusty Staub finished second in the Major Leagues with 121 RBI and finished fifth in American League Most Valuable Player voting.

Rusty Staub was selected to the Sporting News American League All-Star team at the end of the season as the designated hitter.

Rusty Staub is the only major league player to have 500 hits with four different teams.

Rusty Staub was on the Hall of Fame ballot for seven years from 1991 to 1997.

Rusty Staub was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1986; when the Mets won the World Series that year, Rusty Staub received a ring from general manager Frank Cashen.

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In 2006, Rusty Staub was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and six years later, in 2012, he was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1985, Rusty Staub founded the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund, which supports the families of New York City police officers, firefighters, Port Authority police, and emergency medical personnel who were killed in the line of duty.

Since September 11,2001, Rusty Staub's organization has received contributions in excess of $112 million, and it has played a vital role in helping many families affected by the attack.

Rusty Staub went on to work as a television announcer for Mets' ballgames from 1986 to 1995.

Rusty Staub's opened in 1977, and another Rusty Staub's on Fifth opened in 1989.

The 73rd Street Rusty Staub's used to have an annual rib-eating contest, won by Brooke Shields in 1981.

In July 2006, Rusty Staub teamed with Mascot Books to publish his first children's book, Hello, Mr Met.

Rusty Staub was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2018.

Rusty Staub suffered a heart attack and subsequently went into cardiac arrest in 2015 while on a flight from Ireland to the USA.

Rusty Staub died on March 29,2018, three days before his 74th birthday, at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, from multiple organ failure.

Rusty Staub was admitted with pneumonia, dehydration, and an infection, spending a total of eight weeks in the hospital.