'Look' at this photograph

Marion Mets pitcher featured in national magazine

Marion Mets Newsletter – Issue 31

In 1966, a Look Magazine writer and photographer followed New York Mets minor league prospect Byron Von Hoff through his first season as a pro ball player. His journey began in Marion that summer and later included stops in Auburn, New York, and St. Petersburg, Florida.

New York selected Von Hoff in round two of the ’66 amateur draft, less than a month after his 18th birthday and graduation from Batavia High School in Illinois, where he was a star pitcher. In Marion, Look reported, Von Hoff’s “fastball blazed while enemy bats froze.” I’d love to know where the Look photographer took this shot of Von Hoff walking through a cow field in full Marion Mets uniform.