“It’s Alfonzo with a ‘z,’ not an ‘s!’” Maybe he said it to himself while looking at the paper in the easychair in his not ostentatious house a couple of miles from Shea Stadium, but you never heard him say it publicly. Even now when you look up “Edgardo Alfonzo” you get 1.04 million results in a Google search; “Edgardo Alfonso” gets 6.7 million results. Maybe Edgardo, who grew up in Venezuela with a ballplaying older brother named Edgar, was used to others getting his name wrong. But as a New York Mets fan, it always made me wince when it happened here.
Mets History: Underrated Edgardo Alfonzo came through in the clutch
