The New York Times has a wonderful tribute to Doris Bauer. Who she? For the rest who don’t follow New York City-sports call-in radio, Doris from Rego Park, who died in 2003 (Could it be that long?), was the staunchest of New York Mets fans. She may have had a Bat Phone to the radio station WFAN 66 on AM radio within the Tristate area for all I (Evander) know, since it was a wonder how regularly she was able to get thro the typically busy (at all-hours certainly) phone-lines.

Her timing was always impeccable. Doris’s m.o. was the wee-hours call to ubiquitous WFAN original the Schmoozer, following either a spectacular loss or win. As the Times article and reader reactions attest, Doris, with her distinctive cough, was a fount of baseball wisdom.

As noted, Doris mostly would phone in the heat of midsummer. But she might chime in during the deep-night of winter, when the snow was “as high as an elephant’s eye,” and the players she loved were hibernating between season past and season to come.

If any über-fan’s deserving of her or his own melody, it’s Doris from Rego Park.