Amazin\u2019 icons Bobby Valentine and Lee Mazzilli were Mets teammates in the late 1970s. Ahead of their Mets Hall of Fame inductions next week, the former roommates step to the plate for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.<\/p>\n
Q: Lee, describe the first time you met Bobby.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: We just connected.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Let\u2019s get this right. Lee was more than a star, OK? He was \u201cthat dude\u201d in 1977. I was a turd at the end of the bench \u2026<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: (laugh).<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: \u2026 trying to figure out how to run without falling down after my broken leg. Joe [Torre] introduced us. I believe Joe had me walk over and I met Lee, and I knew of him, he had no idea who I was \u2026 rightfully so \u2026 but there was a bonding right from the beginning.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: And when Joe introduced us, Joe said: \u201cBobby, take care of him, please.\u201d<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: (smile) Yes, he did. He had the wrong idea about all that, didn\u2019t he (laugh)?<\/p>\n
Q: Why do you think you two bonded?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: We were the same dudes!<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: Yeah, same dudes. You got that Italian heritage, blood. \u2026 I don\u2019t know how to say this being politically correct, but Italians look after Italians. That\u2019s special to me.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Well, yeah. It wasn\u2019t because Lee was Italian, it was because I was Italian. It really just was an instant bond.<\/p>\n
Met manager Bobby Valentine and Yankee first base coach Lee Mazzilli on Oct. 21, 2000 for a Subway Series game. New York Post<\/p>\n
Q: You guys lived on the beach?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: At one time.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: Can I tell the story about that time?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I don\u2019t think you can! (Laugh)<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: The day [April 1, 1982] we were on the beach, I got traded from the Mets. Jay [Horwitz] called me up and said to me, \u201cMaz, [GM] Frank Cashen wanted to speak to you.\u201d Frank gets on the phone, he says, \u201cWe just traded you to Texas.\u201d And then I told him. Then Roomie said, \u201cAll right, we gotta go out.\u201d And then the next thing I know it was 6 a.m. in the morning I came back home.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: When you talk about dealing with shock therapy, I mean, we were having such a good time, it was all happening and then all of a sudden the world stopped with Lee getting traded. I think it was good we were out until 6 in the morning.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: I just think the initial trade in your life is always the hardest, because you always think that the team that you signed with and played with, you\u2019re gonna end with your whole career. And it just doesn\u2019t work out that way. I\u2019m sure Bobby thought he\u2019d be a Dodger forever. I thought I was gonna be a Met forever. But the business side of it is the dirty hand of life in baseball, and it happens, and I think the initial one is a shocker.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: The American League was the other league, and the Yankees were in it, and that\u2019s all that anybody knew about the other league. Texas was the unknown of the unknown. I played in the American League and I didn\u2019t think that they were a major league team \u2019cause they played in that minor league stadium.<\/p>\n
Q: Describe Joe Torre as Mets player-manager in 1977.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: It was a little strange for a couple of weeks when he was player-manager. I guess it was real hard for him to realize when he had to pinch hit himself or whatever.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I remember running up into the clubhouse and getting Krane [Ed Kranepool] out of Joe\u2019s office one night when Joe wanted him to pinch hit. I don\u2019t know if Joe was playing then or just managing (laugh). Joe\u2019s figuring it out, that was tough for Joe, are you kidding me?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: Hey, Roomie, do you remember the day that we didn\u2019t have a first baseman? Was that when you went to get Kranepool? We went on the field and we only had eight players on the field!<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: That might have been it, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: No one realized, \u201cHey guys, you only got eight guys on the field.\u201d I think that\u2019s when you had to go up and get Kranepool.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I remember sprinting up that stupid runway, and when I got into the office, Krane was watching TV in Joe\u2019s office with his feet on his desk, and I said, \u201cKrane, they need you out there.\u201d I think that might have been it.<\/p>\n
Ed Kranepool, the oldest Met, congratulates Joe Torre, the newest Manager. May 31, 1977. New York Post<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby, what do you remember about Lee in the 1979 All-Star Game?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I somehow got hooked up with the Seattle Mariners after Joe released me, which was a real good move on his part \u2019cause I stunk at the time. But I fooled the Mariners for a second and made their team, and then when the All-Star Game is coming to Seattle and Lee is on the [NL] All-Star team, I felt like a proud father. I can\u2019t even tell you how excited I was to be at the game. And then when he hits the home run, and I\u2019m with Tom Paciorek, who was another roommate of mine, we were in the stands hugging and jumping up and down, and then saying that he should be the MVP \u2026 and they gave it to Dave Parker, and I didn\u2019t think that that was the right thing at the time.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: You came down like as a fan, and there I am in the dugout, you came down, you were screaming! It was neat.<\/p>\n
Q: If you hadn\u2019t broken your leg, how many All-Star Games do you think you would have appeared in?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Oh, I don\u2019t know. That\u2019s a weird thing to say. When I was young and I played with guys and against guys, and I held my own against guys who played for 20 years and were in All-Star Games, I think I probably would have played for a long time and been in a few of \u2019em.<\/p>\n
Q: Describe the \u201986 Mets.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I think of the years that I was there in the minor leagues and watching a lot of those guys and kind of helping them a little, and then being at third base and working with Davey [Johnson]. Davey allowed me into his inner sanctum, which was a blessing for me, that Davey put his ego aside when the big-mouth third base coach was there. He let me run the running game. He allowed me a lot of freedoms that no other coaches had. \u2026 I got to scout Howard Johnson and come back with a scouting report. That group was in my formative years of being a major league coach.<\/p>\n
Q: Game 6.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: There was no way, no how anyone could have said that we would have won that game with two outs, no one on, two strikes on the hitter, and say you\u2019re gonna come back and win the game. Impossible. If anyone said that, they\u2019re lying, they\u2019re full of it. \u2026 And uh-oh \u2014 base hit. Uh-oh \u2014 broken-bat hit. And then, the rest is history.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: The first baseman [Billy Buckner] on the other team was my first roommate in the major leagues, the guy that I went to college with, the guy that I went through the minor leagues with. I\u2019m watching my last roommate that I had and my first roommate that I had battling against each other, and we know what happened with Billy Buck at first base \u2026 that [Mookie Wilson] ball going though his legs kept me from enjoying the victory as much as I really wanted to.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: People just don\u2019t realize how good a player Buckner was. He lived through a tough time after that. It was good to see him be welcomed back in Boston after all those years because they were unfair to him.<\/p>\n
Lee Mazzilli of the New York Mets poses for a photo at Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, New York. Mazzilli played for the Mets from 1976-1981 and again from 1986-1989. MLB via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Q: The parade?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: So we go down the Canyon of Heroes, right? And there\u2019s millions of people in there, right? I\u2019m in a car with my wife, and we\u2019re looking up at all these people, and as I\u2019m looking up, I look up to these tall office buildings, and who do I see? I see my mom and dad! On top of the building! Cheering! I said to my wife: \u201cThere\u2019s Pop! What is he doin\u2019 up there? How did he get up there?\u201d Coolest thing. Saw my mom and dad at a parade. I don\u2019t know how I ever spotted \u2019em. If every athlete, any individual, could experience the Canyon of Heroes \u2026 it\u2019s breathtaking. I got to experience it twice, with two New York teams. How special is that? Or, how lucky am I?<\/p>\n
Q: Describe the young Doc Gooden and the young Darryl Strawberry.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: In Lynchburg, it was a joy watching them. They stood out amongst the rest, obviously. And when Doc came up, not even when he got out to the mound, it was a must-see event. I was there when they first came up. Everything was so amplified, and rightfully so.<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby\u2019s fake mustache.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: I thought it was great. I may come out in the Hall of Fame, my speech, with glasses and a mustache on.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: (laugh)<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby, what enabled your 2000 Mets to get to the World Series against the Yankees?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Just the will. We didn\u2019t have the half-dozen Hall of Famers like Atlanta and the Yankees, but we had Hall of Fame will on that team. They enjoyed each other\u2019s success. It was a pleasure to be with those guys, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: Don\u2019t let anyone fool you, they were good.<\/p>\n
Q: Lee, what was it like coaching first base during the Subway Series?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I hated him.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: He hated me. I was looking over to try to steal his signs from first base.<\/p>\n
Q: Roger Clemens hurling the jagged bat in Mike Piazza\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: When it happened initially, I was sitting next to Joe. And at the same time it happened, we looked at each other, like Joe and Zim [Don Zimmer], like what the F just happened? There\u2019s only one person that knows the truth what happened, or what he thought about what happened.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Everyone knew about the one-on-one rivalry, we knew about the beaning. Mike was as great a hitter as I had ever seen, with one little vulnerable spot \u2014 and the vulnerable spot was when he would swing at a pitch that was off the plate inside. He couldn\u2019t get to that pitch, and that was the pitch that Roger always tried to throw him and never could get there. Mike would throw his arms up and take it, and then force Roger to throw the ball out over the plate and Mike would kill him. When he threw that and broke his bat in half like he did, I didn\u2019t watch the bat, I watched the little bloop of the ball, \u2019cause I was wondering if the ball was gonna land fair or not and if Mike was going to start running or not. When the bat bounced, it clicked on me that he just threw the bat (laugh) in the direction of Mike, and I went, \u201cOh s\u2013t, what\u2019s going to happen?\u201d And nothing happened. And a lot of people think something shoulda happened. Well, it was so bizarre, it was so unworldly. \u2026 Mike was bewildered. He was pissed off that he got jammed for sure. By the time I got on the field, Mike was more kind of confused with his reaction than he was angry. The umpires didn\u2019t know what to do, and they obviously shoulda thrown Roger out of the game, understanding what happened in the past. Like, if Roger hit him in the back, they would have thrown him out of the game.<\/p>\n
Lee Mazzilli of the New York Mets poses for a photo at Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, New York. Mazzilli played for the Mets from 1976-1981 and again from 1986-1989. Sporting News via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Q: When you think of the \u201969 Mets, what do you think of?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: What I think of is: Don\u2019t give up, there\u2019s always a chance \u2026 that the underdog could always be champions.<\/p>\n
Q: What do you remember about Tom Seaver?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: I miss talking to him about baseball. \u2026 I learned a lot about hitting from Tom Seaver, and Jerry Koosman \u2026 how they were pitching hitters and how they would set people up.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I played my first game against them, and I was at third base, and I was told that I could steal home. It was a tie game, it\u2019s September at the end of the season, and I said, \u201cWell, let me just time him.\u201d And I went to time the pitcher, and I think it was Willie Davis flew out to left field. So I didn\u2019t get to steal home, and if I did and we beat \u2019em, it mighta kept them from winning the championship \u2014 how crazy is that?<\/p>\n
Q: What do you remember about the \u201962 Mets?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I had a teammate who was kind of the class clown, a great guy, he was doing the Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy imitation, and would announce our team as though it was a lineup. I grew up a Yankee fan when I was collecting baseball cards and things and figuring out who to root for.<\/p>\n
Q: Did you ever meet Casey Stengel?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I met Casey on a recruiting trip to USC \u2014 he was best friends with the coach there, Rod Dedeaux. He had a barbecue at his house for all the guys who were being recruited. I actually have a ball signed by him, it says: \u201cTo Bob, become a Trojan \u2014 Casey Stengel.\u201d That was the only time I met Casey.<\/p>\n
Q: Lee, you don\u2019t remember the \u201962 Mets, do you?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: A little bit. I went to a couple of games in the Polo Grounds.<\/p>\n
Q: Do you remember going to Shea for the first time?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: Yeah, sure, my dad took me to the game that Jim Bunning pitched the no-hitter [in 1964], that was on [Father\u2019s] Day.<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby, do you remember the first time you were at Shea?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Yeah \u2026 I never was there as a fan, I went there as a Dodger in \u201971, and got the game-winning hit against Tom Seaver, and Kiner\u2019s Korner was the biggest day of my life for most people in Stamford, Connecticut, to just be on Kiner\u2019s Korner and to be in their living rooms for my family and friends.<\/p>\n
Q: Wait a minute, Seaver didn\u2019t intentionally walk you?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: (laugh). What was kind of cool is I pulled the fastball down the left field line, and Ralph [Kiner] thought that that was remarkable. \u2026 Black and white TV in one of my relatives\u2019 house, took a photo of me on Kiner\u2019s Korner. It\u2019s a great photo in my memory books.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: 1969, I was 14, and I remember sleeping over at the stadium to buy tickets for the playoff game against the Braves, and around 2, 3 in the morning, me and my buddies snuck in over the right field fence, over the parking lot, we jumped over the fence, ran into the bullpen, ran on the field and there we were at 3 a.m., standing in the batter\u2019s box and visualizing, saying, \u201cMan, this is where Willie Mays \u2026 Willie Mays is in this batter\u2019s box.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby, when did you first think about managing?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: When I wasn\u2019t playing, I was a big mouth. Like, when I was playing, I was very quick to second-guess the managers I was playing for. And I played for all the Hall of Fame managers, ya know, including Joe and Dick Williams and Tommy Lasorda. \u2026 I don\u2019t know that I second-guessed Tommy so much, maybe I did (laugh). But after I broke my leg, for sure I did, because those who can\u2019t play decide to coach, and I was kind of coaching as I was playing.<\/p>\n
Q: How disappointed were you that you didn\u2019t get to manage Alex Rodriguez with the Mets?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Well, I was disappointed. You remember that road show that he had, I kind of got involved with it, I was behind it, it was exactly what we needed. The really only two disappointments on player transaction things \u2014 not having the chance to have a guy like A-Rod with Mike in the same lineup, and not having Ichiro [Suzuki]. I was really disappointed when we didn\u2019t just go all in for Ichiro.<\/p>\n
Q: Lee, when did you first think about managing?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: I took some time off after I played \u2026 managed three years in the minor leagues with the Yankees. They kind of tested me, I guess, to see if I really wanted to do it. It was a tough decision, I wanted to do it, my wife was the one that really pushed me out the door and said that, \u201cIf this is in your blood, you gotta see if you can get it out of your system because: 1) you\u2019re driving me nuts being home, and [2], you gotta go out and see if you want to do this.\u201d She said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about the kids, I got this.\u201d<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: There are guys who play baseball and then they hunt during the wintertime, and then there\u2019s guys that play baseball and they play golf during the wintertime. Lee and I were like 24\/7, 12-months-a-year baseball guys. He was destined to be a coach and destined to be a manager.<\/p>\n
Q: I don\u2019t know anybody who had a bigger bucket list than you.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I just tried to do s\u2013t, yeah (smile).<\/p>\n
Orioloes manager Lee Mazzilli taken on May 27, 2004. The Washington Post via Getty Im<\/p>\n
Q: What was it like managing against Joe Torre for the first time?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: I wanted to beat him so bad. When I was with Baltimore, the Yankees were the beasts of the East, and you always want to beat the best. \u2026 I would have liked to manage against Bobby. Managing to me is the closest thing you\u2019re gonna ever get to playing again.<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby, describe winning the Matsutaro Shoriki Award in Japan in 2005.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Since I was the only non-Japanese to win it, it\u2019s as big an award as you can get \u2014 it\u2019s for the guy who contributes the most to Japanese professional baseball. I learned doing it the right way from Lasorda and the Dodgers, then Fred Wilpon saying you have to do it 24\/7, 365, and I went over there with that same kind of commitment and it was acknowledged.<\/p>\n
Q: Being the face of the Mets franchise at such a young age, how much pressure was that for you?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: I wasn\u2019t comfortable with it. That wasn\u2019t who I was. That was put upon me, it wasn\u2019t me doing it, Bobby knows that.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: He was put in a situation, not only being the face \u2026 but he had to be the face after the face [Seaver] left. That\u2019s really hard. I think the New York fans are seeing with [Anthony Volpe] how hard it is that he tried to step into those shoes. Tom Seaver left this organization, and left Lee Mazzilli holding the bag.<\/p>\n
Q: What are your favorite Stamford memories growing up?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I was really lucky to grow up in that community. It was bound together by the youth sports that people played. I was fortunate enough to get up with a Little League city championship and play on a Babe Ruth League team that went to a World Series, and got to be in a dance class and danced with a spectacular group of people, and played football. \u2026 I was lucky enough to get a lot of accolades there. \u2026 I remember when I was 12, I threw a no-hitter in the Little League \u2014 I think it was even the championship game \u2014 and there was a headline in the Stamford Advocate with my name: Valentine throws no-hitter. And we would always have the Sunday dinners at my grandmother\u2019s house and the whole family was there. And my grandmother didn\u2019t speak much English, but she saw the headline, a Valentine in the newspaper, and through my aunt, my grandmother said to her how proud she was to see the Valentine name in the newspaper, and it wasn\u2019t associated with crime.<\/p>\n
Q: Lee, what were your favorite Brooklyn memories growing up?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: We didn\u2019t have much. We had five of us in a three-room apartment. We didn\u2019t have a bathroom inside the house, it was in a hallway. I remember my dad shaving with his winter jacket on in the hallway, and I\u2019d say, \u201cHey Pop, what are you doing?\u201d He said, \u201cClose the door, you\u2019re letting the heat out.\u201d I said, \u201cPop, we ain\u2019t got no heat here.\u201d I remember growing up in the schoolyard \u2014 that was my babysitter, the schoolyard \u2014 from morning to night, that was the safe haven where my mom and dad always knew where I was. I was very lucky and fortunate to play in a city that I grew up in. I could have been drafted by anyone at that time. Listen, there were tough times growing up, but I never felt that from a materialistic point, \u2019cause I know we didn\u2019t have it, but we were rich in family and neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Q: Lee, where were you on 9\/11?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: We had a game that night at Yankee Stadium. My wife woke me up. As a matter of fact, I went over Joe\u2019s house to see him to find out what was going on \u2019cause Joe lived in Westchester. For us, we still feel that. I don\u2019t think the rest of the country feels it as New Yorkers feel it \u2019cause we live it every day, we live it every day for 25 years.<\/p>\n
Q: Bobby, how proud are you of what you did in the 9\/11 aftermath?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: I always think that I should have been able to do more. I delivered the groceries, but Jay made out the grocery lists. He was the one who would say, \u201cHey, there\u2019s a memorial service at Saint Pat\u2019s, maybe we should represent it, the family in Westchester, let\u2019s do whatever it is.\u201d The Yankees allowed me to do things with kids and families during their run that goes kind of unnoticed, too. \u2026 I think I did OK \u2026<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: You did more than OK, Roomie, \u2019cause I remember like yesterday what you did, and read about it.<\/p>\n
JAY HORWITZ (longtime Mets media relations rep): I don\u2019t know when the guy slept. From the moment we left Pittsburgh, he really had two jobs, to manage a team and Shea Stadium was a recovery area, 24\/7, we would practice in the morning, go out and load trucks in the afternoon. He should go in the Hall of Fame twice, once as a manager, and once what he did off the field. \u2026 When I die, on my tombstone, proud to be part of working with Bobby and the 2001 Mets, that\u2019s my legacy.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: My biggest regret in baseball was losing the 2001 World Series to the Diamondbacks. Because of everything that we went through, my biggest regret, I felt that the city needed the Yankees to win and have a Canyon of Heroes parade for New York, and we couldn\u2019t bring it back.<\/p>\n
Q: Why will your Mets Hall of Fame ceremony induction be so emotional for you?<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: There\u2019s 1,000 reasons why. \u2026 I couldn\u2019t have picked a more special person to go into or be inducted into the Hall of Fame than Bobby, that\u2019s special to me. \u2026 Family \u2026 going in with my granddaughter [Sophia, 2 in July], I don\u2019t even know how to describe that. I guess 50 years later, it all came to fruition and it just came at the right time and she\u2019s gonna be there. It\u2019s gonna be very emotional, I think for Bobby and myself. Bobby and I, we both lost our brothers, they\u2019re not gonna be there with us, that were big hearts, the mainstays of our lives, but they\u2019re gonna be there with us in spirit, I know. And Jay being there, Jay was like the big brother to every player out there. I was the first player Jay ever met when he came to work for the New York Mets. The question is who\u2019s gonna cry first, Bobby or me?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: It\u2019s gonna be emotional. \u2026 Lee\u2019s a humble guy. He was Mr. Met, and I don\u2019t know if everyone remembers that, they\u2019re not old enough to remember. But when I got to the Mets in \u201977, on that dark June 15, Lee was \u201cThe Man.\u201d He was the reason that people would come to the stadium when Tom Seaver was gone. To see him being inducted into the Met Hall of Fame, it just makes me feel so proud and happy for him. As far as me being emotional, hell, I gave the better part of three decades to the Mets organization as a lousy player, a pretty good third base coach and a \u2026<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: Real good manager.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Yeah (laugh). It\u2019ll bring back such fond memories and wonderful accomplishments as well as other things that will go through my mind that day for sure.<\/p>\n
Q: What are you most proud of?<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Most everything that I\u2019ve done in my life, I\u2019ve gotten to share with family and friends, and fans.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: You\u2019re most proud of being my roommate.<\/p>\n
VALENTINE: Sometimes. I\u2019m not gonna say how often you were there.<\/p>\n
MAZZILLI: You know if we weren\u2019t roommates, I woulda played another five years.<\/p>\n
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