In the first game Gary Carter played for the New York Mets, in April of 1985 at dumpy old Shea Stadium near the auto chop-shops of Flushing, N.Y., Carter came to the plate in the bottom of the 10th ...

<br>Gary Carter, then with the Montreal Expos, gets ready to bat during a game against the Chicago Cubs in 1978. Though he became most famous as a Mets catcher, Carter first made his mark in Montreal, ...

1925 — Cleveland’s Tris Speaker got his 3,000th career hit, off Tom Zachary, in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators. 1939 — The first baseball game on television was broadcast by W2XBS, an ...

Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, born in Culver City, played one season with the Dodgers in 1991 near the end of his career. He has been fighting brain tumors and died today. Carter attended Sunny ...

A look back 38 years, to the Game 7 night when the New York Mets stood atop baseball. The Journal News/lohud.com has been telling stories of the Lower Hudson Valley for generations. This regular ...