Butch Huskey Passes Away

Former big leaguer Butch Huskey passed away on Friday, the Mets announced. He was 54. Huskey spent the majority of his seven-year big-league career in New York. He was known for wearing the number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson.
The Mets took Huskey in the seventh round of the 1989 draft out of high school. He broke in with the club as a 21-year-old in 1993, but appeared in just 13 games. Huskey spent the entire 1994 campaign at Triple-A before getting another cup of coffee with the big-league s