Kong: A Blast From The Past

Wow... I just finished reading an amazing article about a former New York Met, that I really knew very little about. It was by Joe Posnanski at SI.com, who gave me a whole new perspective on Dave Kingman. I'm sure many of you have heard about the exploits of Dave Kingman at one time or another. In fact, if you listened to most Mets games on the radio like I used to, you would have heard the dearly departed, Bob Murphy wax on about Kingman just about every time a player hit a monster homerun at Shea Stadium. Bob called him Sky King, while everyone else knew Kingman as Kong. A few years ago, I was at my uncle's house and he had a bunch of junk scattered all over the floor and table as he was cleaning out his junk room in the basement. One item immediately caught my eye. It was a 1982 NY Mets Official Scorebook and you know there was no way in hell that I was leaving his house without that scorebook that night. It had a big picture of Dave Kingman right on the cover along with ...