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Longtime Mets first baseman Ed Kranepool dead at 79

The New York Mets' Ed Kranepool is pictured at Shea Stadium in Queens in 1972. (Bettmann via Getty Images)
The New York Mets’ Ed Kranepool is pictured at Shea Stadium in Queens in 1972. (Bettmann via Getty Images)
New York Daily News
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Ed Kranepool, the teenage baseball prodigy from James Monroe High School in the Bronx who went on to spend 18 years as a first base fixture during the Mets’ maturity from the worst team in baseball history to champions in 1969 and ’73,  died Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest.Kranepool, who was 79 (born Nov. […]

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