“He caught as though he were fighting a swarm of bees,” wrote the New Yorker’s Roger Angel of Choo Choo Coleman, the Mets catcher in the early 1960s. When a pitcher who had been a minor league ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Clarence “Choo-Choo” Coleman, a catcher on the expansion 1962 Mets who spent four seasons in the major leagues with New York and the Philadelphia Phillies, died Monday at age 80.

Clarence “Choo Choo” Coleman was a quiet player during his time with the original Mets. He even denied that he actually said the most famous quotation attributed to him. Still, he was and is one of ...