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Rick Herrscher
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 714 of 1218 players
Herrscher
Richard Franklin Herrscher
Born: November 3, 1936 at St. Louis, Mo.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.02 Weight: 187

Rick Herrscher was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on November 3, 2013, and July 24, 2018.

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First Mets game: August 1, 1962
Last Mets game: September 26, 1962

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Barry
September 30, 2001
If memory serves, Rick Herrscher hit only one HR during his short stay in MLB...and I was there at the Polo Grounds...I think it was 1963...so I was 9 yrs old. It was a fly ball that went directly down the right field line extremely close to the foul pole. I don't recall the exactdimensions of the Polo Grounds, tho I know if was about 300 feet..but this HR went that distance...and 1 inch more.

gary nelson-long island,new york
October 11, 2002
If I remember right, I went to the Polo Grounds when I was 11 years old and Rick Herrscher did hit a home run and I think it was a three run homer on August 5, 1962. I always thought the year was 1963 but I was wrong, and here's why: When leaving the Polo Grounds a newspaper boy was yelling read all about it Marilyn Monroe is dead. I looked up the date when she died. 8-5-1962. I also think it was a doubleheader on a Sunday afternoon.

Mark Simon
October 18, 2004
For those curious, I wrote a short piece on Herrscher in the October '04 edition of NY Mets Inside Pitch. He was an interesting interview. I told him about how Marilyn Monroe died the day of his HR- he said he didn't remember that, but was intrigued by it...He tells a couple of good Casey Stengel stories, and explains how Gil Hodges is in his personal "Hall of Fame."

He's an orthodontist in Texas now, and has been since 1972...still follows baseball very avidly.

Check it out if you get the chance.

Bob P
April 29, 2008
To follow up on some older posts, Rick's home run was indeed in game one of a doubleheader on August 5, 1962, also known as the day Marilyn Monroe died.

The home run was also Rick's first major league hit in seven trips to the plate. And yes, the homer did barely clear the right field fence. It was hit the opposite way by Herrscher, a righty batter, off Reds' lefty Jim O'Toole.

Rick had just been called up from Syracuse a week earlier when the Mets sent Ed Bouchee down.

And actually, the Mets won three of five from the Reds that weekend, losing Friday night, sweeping a doubleheader on Saturday, then settling for the split on Sunday.








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