Mets Legend Ed cran poool member of 1969 World Series team dead at 79 Mets announced cran poool suffered cardiac arrest in bakaron Florida New York Mets legendary first baseman Ed cran poool who played all 18 years in NLB with the team since its Inception in 1962 has died the team announced on Monday the Mets announced that cran poool suffered a cardiac arrest in bakar Raiden Florida on Sunday he was 79 years old we are incredibly hard broken to learn event Crim pool's passing a statement from Mets owner Steve and Alex Cohen Reed he was an original met who debuted at age 177 1962 after starring at James Monroe High School in the Bronx he would go on to play for his hometown team for the next 18 years the longest tenured player in franchise history appearing in 1,853 games with the Mets had hit a home run in game three of the 1969 World Series to help the miracle Mets capture the title he was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 1990 Ed continued to work tirelessly in the community on behalf of the organization after his playing career ended we cherish the time we spent with Ed during older's day and years since heing met stories and history from Ed was an absolute joy we extend our thoughts and prayers to his family and friends cran pool who was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame in 1990 has been around the team in recent years as the Cohen mentioned spending time at City Field in Queens for old- day and in 2019 joined some of his old teammates from the 1969 Miracle Mets for the team's 50th anniversary of his first world series title cran pool was diagnosed with diabetes shortly after retirement and in 2017 he needed a toe removed due to an infected abscess the infection though could not be controlled because his kidneys were failing in 2019 cran poool had a successful kidney transplant which former teammate Ron swaboda said made things better for him he battled for so long and never complained about anything swaboda said per the Mets I thought once he got his kidney transplant things would be great he was a wonderful guy an even better teammate we went into the restaurant business together I can't believe he is gone another teammate Jerry kumin called cran poool the best first baseman I ever played with while Cleon Jones noted I just Stoke to last week and we talked about how we were the last two Originals who signed with the Mets Eddie was a big bonus baby and I wasn't Jones added he never had an ego and was just one of the guys he was a wonderful person cran poool was 17 years old when he signed with the Mets in 1962 playing just three games for the organization that year before a larger role in 1963 when he played 86 games in 1965 he made his first and only All-Star team hitting 253 33371 with 10 homers 24 doubles and 53 RBI in 153 games over his 1,853 career games cran poool slashed 261 316 377 with 118 homers 64 RBI and 536 runs scored