June 24, 2008
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Longtime Mets employee Jim Plummer dies way to young.
Jim Plummer, who had been with the New York Mets organization since he was Nolan Ryan's minor-league bat boy in 1965, died Tuesday at New York University Medical Center. He was 56.
Plummer had a liver and kidney transplant last weekend and died of a heart attack, Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said.
Plummer started with the Mets in Marion, Va., and moved up to the major-league team in 1976. At the time of his death, he was director of corporate sales.
I've had a number of people ask over the years how they might get a job in sports. Plummer's path appears to be a common one. You need to be willing to do the little jobs in the minor leagues and with luck you move up to the major league club. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
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