Ron Swoboda
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Ronald Alan "Ron" Swoboda (born June 30, 1944) was a Major League Baseball player, debuting on April 12 with the New York Mets in 1965. He played his final major league game with the New York Yankees on September 30, 1973.
In the 1969 World Series, Swoboda, not normally regarded as a good fielder, made a spectacular catch of a ball hit by Brooks Robinson.[citation needed] He ran as far as he could, stretched, and dived horizontally, looked in his baseball glove, and there was the ball. The Mets would win the game and the World Series.
In 1971, Swoboda and minor league player Rich Hacker were traded to the Montreal Expos in exchange for young outfielder Don Hahn; later that year, the Expos traded Swoboda to the New York Yankees. He was released by the Yankees in 1973, and signed with the Atlanta Braves during spring training of 1974. The Braves, however, released him on March 25 of that year.
After his retirement from the majors, he worked as a television sportscaster] in New York City on WCBS-TV and for many years at WVUE in New Orleans. He also worked at Cox Television.
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