Gary Carter wasn’t shy about curtain calls
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 3, 2008
Gary Carter was the king of the curtain call, a guy whose signature fist pump would come to define both him and the swaggering Mets of the middle to late 1980s.
Not even Carter knows how many curtain calls he gave since introducing his move 23 years ago after hitting a 10th-inning home run to give the Mets a 6-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. But it’s safe to say it never would have occurred to him not to accept a curtain call like Carlos Delgado did in a the Mets’ win last Sunday over the Atlanta Braves.
“I never went out for a curtain call just because I liked it. I did it because the fans asked for it and wanted to see an appearance,” Carter said in a phone interview this week. “You go out and raise a fist or tip a hat or whatever it is.
“You just go out to recognize that the fans are recognizing what is happening. I feel it is something where you are acknowledging the fans because they are as much a part of the game as anyone else.”
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