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For whatever reason, this photo looks vaguely familiar to me but I can’t place it. If indeed it’s\u00a0Kingman<\/a>, and I agree on the blurry resemblance, the intersection of uniform style, Kong’s tenure with the Mets, and availability of\u00a0No. 5<\/a>\u00a0places this picture as being taken sometime in 1981, obviously in a road game, and before September 11, when Mike Howard was issued No. 5.<\/p>\n My guess is, as often the case, it dates from spring training — where photos exist of Kingman wearing No. 10 from his first tenure. But if you have a guess or happen to know something, please share in the comments section below.<\/p>\n * We have a few more events on the calendar for next week, including an appearance atBookends\u00a0<\/a>in New Jersey April 16 and a baseball writers event at\u00a0Word Books<\/a>\u00a0in Brooklyn April 17 hosted by Caryn Rose of\u00a0Metsgrrl<\/a>\u00a0and also featuring Spike Vrusho, author of\u00a0Benchclearing: Baseball’s Greatest Fights and Riots<\/a>. No way can you miss that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MBTN reader Gordon passed the below photo along today along with this note: I came across a picture at a flea market this weekend. It was labeled to be Dave Kingman (it looks like him). He’s wearing uniform #5. For whatever reason, this photo looks vaguely familiar to me but I can’t place it. If … Continue reading “Kingman Kontroversy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-kingman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/stout.jpg\")
* Thanks to my friends new and old who showed up at the\u00a0MBTN book launch<\/a>\u00a0Sunday at Stout NYC and shared beer, wings, pretzels, burgers and the pain of realizing Luis Castillo is only in the 5th day of a four-year contract. The SNY crew didn’t make it after all, but looks like we’ll have an audience with them soon. Thanks also to the folks who made our appearance at\u00a0Barnes & Noble Bayside<\/a>\u00a0a fun time on Saturday, especially Ashley who set it all up, and Mike, Mike and Lou. We left behind a short stack of autographed copies there — get them while they last.<\/p>\n