The New York Mets drafted Neil Allen out of Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas, in the eleventh round of the 1976 Major League Baseball draft. In just his second professional season he went 10-2 with a 2.79 earned run average and led the Carolina League with 126 strikeouts with the Lynchburg Mets He came up with the Mets as a starting pitcher in 1979, and he made his major league debut on April 15 against the Philadelphia Phillies the Mets moved him to the bullpen. later that season , and on July 28, he earned his first of his 75 major league saves. He joins Mark Rosenman talk about it all , including an interview he did 43 years before with Mark
