Fran Healy

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Fran Healy was a broadcaster for the Mets from 1984 to 2005. He covered games on the SportsChannel cable station. Healy also served as host for the Mets Inside Pitch TV Show.

Healy had a nine-year career as a major league catcher. He had a .250 lifetime batting average for the Royals, Giants and Yankees. Fran retired and joined the Yankees’ radio broadcast team during the ’78 season. He continued to cover the Yanks on cable until 1983.

Healy came to the Mets in time to see the team’s rise to prominence. In ’84, the team won 90 games (22 more than the previous season) for its second best record up to that time. Fran was an air personality for the Mets’ 1986 World Championship season and their National League East Division title year of 1988. Over his first seven years as a Met broadcaster, he witnessed the team’s major league most 575 regular season wins from the booth.

Healy continued to broadcast for the Mets in the 1990s and 2000s. He remained on the air as the cable station became Fox Sports New York. Fran described Mets games through several unspectacular years for the team before a pair of Wild Cards and the 2000 National League pennant. After leaving the Mets, he became a broadcaster for the Madison Square Garden Cable Network.