Even Pete Rose knew Bud Harrelson was the Mets’ ‘heart and soul’
You want to know what kind of a man Derrel McKinley “Bud” Harrelson was? Let’s go back almost exactly 50 years, to the night of Jan. 27, 1974. This was the annual dinner put on by the New York baseball writers, at the old Americana Hotel on 52nd Street and Sixth Avenue, a black-tie affair to…