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Mets Legend Ed Kranepool On The Road To Recovery Following ‘Amazin” Kidney Transplant

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Doctors say Mets great Ed Kranepool is doing excellent after a successful kidney transplant, an operation that wouldn’t have been possible if not for a donor chain.

He has a huge smile and it was a long time in the making. Kranepool, 74, had been searching for a replacement kidney for two years. Last month, out of the blue, he got the call.

“It was a long two years, but obviously it came through,” Kranepool told CBS2’s Steve Overmyer on Friday. “That’s the one thing you never know.