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How we’ll remember a gem who meant so much to so many Mets

In the small borough of Little Ferry, NJ, at a municipal event Friday to formally open a new baseball/softball field, the few hundred people on site surely could all agree on two points:

1. The field is absolutely gorgeous.

2. The person whose name is on the field would have wanted no part of this event.

“She wouldn’t have liked it,” David Wright said of Shannon Dalton Forde, the late public relations executive for the Mets.

Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, asked how Shannon would have reacted to seeing such hullabaloo over her, smiled and said, “Poorly.