Funeral Held For Chandler's Tom Belcher

Funeral services were held in Chandler Tuesday for the former New York Mets player, Tom Belcher. <br/><br/>He played three seasons with the Mets, but spent most of his life running the Chandler Baseball

Tuesday, May 16th 2006, 10:24 am

By: News On 6

Funeral services were held in Chandler Tuesday for the former New York Mets player, Tom Belcher.

He played three seasons with the Mets, but spent most of his life running the Chandler Baseball Camp. He was 65.

More than 20,000 young boys, from all over the country, learned the basics of baseball there, two weeks at a time.

The summer camp opened in 1958 and closed in 2000.