Primary Education

OK, today everyone is watching New Hampshire, birthplace of only one New York Met ever, Don Florence, whose entire major league career consisted of pitching 14 games for the Mets in 1995. Florence has another claim to fame as a Met -- you can make the case he has the best winning percentage of any Mets pitcher in history, if you don't require any minimum number of decisions:

Most Career Wins as a Mets Pitcher, among pitchers with zero losses as a Met
Don Florence: 3 Wins, 0 Losses
Bartolome Fortunato, Barry Jones, John Candelaria and Jim Bethke: 2 Wins, 0 Losses

No major leaguer born in New Hampshire has ever been inducted in the Hall of Fame. Best major leaguers born in New Hampshire:
--Arlie Latham, 221 Win Shares. Latham was one of the more popular players of the 19th century among fans. He was a prolific base stealer who hit for a good average and played third base for many years when that was a very tough position to play (lots of bunting, plus inferior gloves for fielding those wicked line drives). He was very famous as an entertainer, eccentric and overall kook on the field and off (he is credited for, among other innovations, starting the tradition of chattering encouragement to the pitcher from the infield).
--Red Rolfe, 162 Win Shares. Rolfe was the All-Star third basemen for the great, great Yankee teams of the late 1930s, late in Gehrig's career and early in DiMaggio's (Rolfe was 6 years younger than Gehrig and six years older than DiMaggio).
--Mike Flanagan, 158 Win Shares -- the popular Orioles pitcher and more recently an executive in the O's front office.

Among active MLB players born in New Hampshire the leading light is Chris Carpenter with 91 career Win Shares. Chad Paronto has 10 career Win Shares and Brian Wilson (not the Beach Boy) has 5 career Win Shares. Other New Hampshire natives who have played major league ball since 1945 and that current fans might remember are Bob Tewksbury (101 Win Shares), Phil Plantier (46 Win Shares) and Joe Lefebvre (35 Win Shares).