City Hall Presentation in Honor of Baseball Hall of Famer Gary Carter

Local residents Charles and Susan Deen presented a poem to the City Council in honor of Baseball Hall of Famer Gary Edmund Carter. The 57-year-old passed away from a malignant brain tumor or Feb. 16, in Palm Beach Florida.

 Born on April 8, 1954, the New York Mets catcher was an 11-time All-Star during 19 major league seasons, primarily with the Montreal Expos and the Mets. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.

Deen read from a poem entitled The Green Fields of the Mind, written by Bart Giamatti in 1977. Giamatti, who passed away in 1989, was the Yale University president from 1978 to 1986, the National League president from 1986 to 1989 and the Baseball Commissioner from April through September 1989.

The Green Fields of the Mind

It breaks your heart.  

It is designed to break your heart.

The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,

and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings,

and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive,

and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

On Monday night, Mayor Micheal O’Leary adjourned the City Council meeting in Carter’s memory.

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