In 1976, a 20-year-old Buck Showalter was spending the summer in Cape Cod, working as a short-order cook and playing for the Hyannis Mets.
That’s right — Showalter was a Met long before he skippered them.
The now 66-year-old manager of the New York Mets was playing in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League. Players had to work part-time jobs in order to maintain their amateur status, so Showalter got a job at the Hyannis Newsstand, working the breakfast shift every morning before heading to the ballpark in the afternoon.
