Miracle Mets SS Bud Harrelson dies at 79

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Bud Harrelson, the shortstop on the 1969 New York Mets championship team and the team's one-time manager, died Wednesday night at a hospice house in East Northport, N.Y., the team announced. He was 79.

The Mets said the cause of death was Alzheimer's disease.

A Northern California native, Harrelson made his Mets debut on Sept. 2, 1965, and remained with the