Gil Hodges

Gilbert Raymond (Ray) Hodges (April 4 1924 - April 2 1972) was an American first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball.

Facts

• Hodges was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1982. He fell eight votes short of election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005
• Milton J. Shapiro published a biography of Hodges, The Gil Hodges Story (1960)
• Hodges and Frank Slocum published a book called The Game Of Baseball (1969)
• A bridge between Brooklyn and Rockaway, a park on Carroll St. and a Little League field on MacDonald Ave. in Brooklyn, were named after Hodges, as was the high school baseball stadium in his birthplace of Princeton, Indiana