RIP Gary Carter

GONE TOO SOON: Gary Carter 1954 - 2012

One of baseball's great characters and ambassadors is safe at home tonight. Hall-of-Fame catcher Gary Carter, who spent most of his colourful baseball career with the Montreal Expos and New York Mets, passed away after a courageous battle with brain cancer today. He was 57.

A mainstay for the National League in the annual MLB All-Star Game, Carter played in over two thousand professional baseball games over his illustrious eighteen year career, hit 324 homeruns, and won the World Series with the New York Mets in 1986. In 2003, the electorate of the Baseball Hall-of-Fame inducted Gary Carter into the hallowed halls of Cooperstown, the highest baseball honour an individual could achieve.

I'm going to be wearing my Montreal Expos hat tomorrow in honour of Gary. Click on the link below to watch an MLB video about the life of the late Gary Carter.

RIP Gary Carter 1954 - 2012