Jim Hickman
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Jim Hickman played for the Mets from 1962 to 1966. He was chosen by the Mets in the expansion draft in October of 1961. In his five seasons in New York, Jim appeared in 624 games. He hit 60 home runs and drove in 210 runs with a .241 batting average.
Hickman was the Mets' leader with 6 triples and 17 home runs in 1963. He homered in each game of a doubleheader sweep against the Milwaukee Braves on April 21 at the Polo Grounds with a grand slam in the first game and a two-run homer in the second. Jim hit a home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Mets a 3-2 win over the Reds on May 10. In the second game of a doubleheader on June 2, he homered in the 10th inning to give the Mets a 4-3 win over the Pirates. On August 7, Hickman became the first Met ever to hit for the cycle in a win over the Cardinals. He hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth to give the Mets a 7-3 win over the Cubs at the Polo Grounds on August 9. Jim also had a run-scoring single and a home run in the Mets' 4-2 victory over the Giants on September 10 at the Polo Grounds.
In 1964, Jim batted .257 and had 57 runs batted in. These totals were seasonal highs for him as a Met. On July 26, Hickman repeated his feat from the previous year by hitting a home run in each game of a doubleheader against the Braves. He also accumulated a total of 9 hits in two consecutive games on September 29 (4) and September 30 (5) at Milwaukee. The Mets lost all four of these games.
Jim became the first Met ever to hit three home runs in a game on September 3, 1965. All three homers came against the Cardinals' Ray Sadecki and led to a 6-3 Mets win in St. Louis. Also in '65, Hickman went 4-for-4 with an RBI and a stolen base in the Mets' 10-inning loss at Philadelphia on September 26.
The 1966 season was a difficult one for Jim. He spent three months on the disabled list with an injured left wrist and hit .237 in only 58 games. It was also his final year with the Mets as he was traded to the Dodgers with Ron Hunt for Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith on November 29. Hickman spent the 1967 season with the Dodgers, five seasons with the Cubs (1968-1973) and 1974 with the Cardinals.
