The New York Mets have been lax when it comes to honoring their great players. Unlike the crosstown Yankees, the Mets don’t have a Monument Park jam-packed with plaques of players and other notable persons in the open for the world to ogle.
The Mets do have a Hall of Fame, though, located in the lobby of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. That’s the issue, though. Mets owner Fred Wilpon grew up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and is only now beginning to embrace the heritage of the team he actually owns.
The Mets have only retired four uniform numbers in their 58 seasons of existence and two of them were managers (#37 for Casey Stengel and #14 for Gil Hodges).