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When this was taken at Shea Stadium in September, 1967, he might have been the second or third top position player prospect in the Mets' system. By the middle of the next season he was off the radar, untouched in the expansion draft, and sold to the first-year Expos. He hit a homer - Montreal's first - in an intrasquad game and remained in camp until the last round of cuts, but never played in the major leagues again.

Although I recall the Mets had some questions about his communicative skills, he wound up coaching a high school team back home in Louisiana.