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Share your memories of Larry Burright
HERE IS WHAT OTHER METS FANS HAVE TO SAY:
David
October 15, 2001
When I was a little boy, I got a Larry Burright baseball card in a Topps bubble gum pack. He was playing for the Dodgers then. There was something about that card that has stayed with me for 40 years. Maybe it was the way the photographer had the young infielder posed to field a grounder. Maybe it was the sunny Dodger blue of the uniform. Or maybe it was the earnest look on his face. I don't know. I wonder what Larry Burright was thinking that day. And I wonder how he felt when he was traded to the Amazin' Mets!
John Kundrath
August 5, 2002
I have known Larry for many years. His wife Judy worked for me for about 10 of them and, I have to say he is one hell of a nice guy. Very glad to have him as a friend, and Judy too!
legalbeagle
May 10, 2004
I remember Larry Burright with the 62 Dodgers. He was in the starting lineup on Memorial Day on the Dodgers first visit back to NY since they left. I did not remember this, but he only played 3 games in 64 with the Mets and then was released. He had this brush cut and could not hit a lick.
Bob P
May 3, 2006
On Monday, July 15, 1963, the Mets and Houston Colt .45s played a twi-night doubleheader at the Polo Grounds. It was Larry Burright's most productive day as a Met.Burright started and batted eighth in both ends of the doubleheader, and went 4-for-6 with two walks, a stolen base, and four runs scored. Larry had just 22 hits in 44 games as a Met, and 18% of his Mets hits came in this doubleheader. Ironically, all three of Larry's RBIs in 1963 also came against Houston at the Polo Grounds, this time in a May 2 game where Larry had a double and a triple. Larry was 8-for-27 (.296) against the Colt .45s in 1963, and just 14-for-73 (.192) against the rest of the league. Larry had a four-hit game for the Dodgers in 1962. He was 4-for-7 in a fifteen inning loss to the Cardinals. His final major league game was at Shea on April 18, 1964, in the second game ever played there. Larry was 0-for-4 against the Pirates. His final at bat was against Frank Bork, and he grounded out to second base.
Patrick Sullivan
January 23, 2013
I know the exact card referenced by someone above and had the same reaction. First I think he was in a batting helmet - there was a palm tree in the background and just the thought of L A was magical to a kid from Kansas - I still have the card.
jennifer pursell-northern
April 10, 2014
Larry Burright is my grandfather. It is so wonderful to see pics of him and hear stories about him. He loves the game of baseball and has the coolest memorabilia up in his house. He is such a wonderful man and till this day no one can beat him in a foot race with cowboy boots on. We love you Grandpa.
Mike Zimmerman
April 28, 2014
I played baseball with Larry Burright at Fullerton College, in 1956; Bud Dawson, Coach. Then in a taxi cab going in the military at Ft. Ord, CA., I ran into Larry. He said that the Dodgers had called him up for the next season. Larry was best at the turn on second and throwing to first.
Don L
May 14, 2019
In 1962, I was an 11-year-old Dodgers’ fan living in West Covina, California, only a few miles away from Larry Burright’s home. Those were the days when I listened to the Dodgers’ games on a little transistor radio, with Vin Scully announcing the play-by-play with such descriptive detail and feeling, that it was possible for a kid like me to visualize the games late into the night from my bed.One day I took a new baseball over to Larry Burright’s house, knocked on the door, and beamed with unexpected delight when he opened the door. He could see immediately that I was a fan, and I asked if he would autograph my baseball. He kindly agreed, and even offered to get autographs from other Dodgers for me. To this day (57 years later) I have the baseball that Larry Burright signed, along with autographs from Wally Moon, Frank Howard, Johnny Podres, Jay Johnstone, Bob Metz, and others that Larry Burright had gotten for me. This was far more than I had ever hoped for. What I remember about Larry Burright at the time was how approachable, down-to-earth, and kind he was, and I treasured his willingness to give his time to an admiring 11-year-old fan. Looking back many years later, I realize that he, himself, was only about 24 years old at the time, but to me he was a star — a
talented professional baseball player, someone who had achieved greatness!
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