Kevin Daniel Elster (born August 3, 1964) is an American former professional baseball shortstop. Known primarily for his glove, Elster broke a 42-year-old Major League Baseball record by playing 88 consecutive games at shortstop without committing an error. Early years Elster was drafted by the New York Mets in the second round of the January draft out of Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California. He batted .269 with fourteen home runs and 135 runs batted in over three seasons in the Mets' farm system when he received a somewhat surprising September call up to the majors in with the Mets on the verge of capturing the National League East. He made his major league debut as a late inning defensive replacement on September 2 against the San Francisco Giants, and got his first major league hit in his first major league at bat the following day. Over the remainder of the season, Elster batted .167 with three runs scored. He had one extra base hit, a double off the Philadelphia Phillies' Kevin Gross. He appeared in four games of the 1986 National League Championship Series against the Houston Astros, and game six of the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. In four postseason at bats, he had no hits. Elster's bat caught up to his glove in with the triple A Tidewater Tides. He batted .310 with eight home runs and 74 RBIs, and set a franchise record with 170 hits. Once again, he received a call up to the majors that September. He collected four hits in ten at bats, and got his first major league RBI with a double off the St. Louis Cardinals' John Tudor on October 2. Following the season, the Mets traded incumbent shortstop Rafael Santana to the New York Yankees in order to open the position up for Elster. New York Mets In his first game as the Mets' regular shortstop in the season opener, Elster hit his first major league home run off the Montreal Expos' Dennis Martinez. His batting average hovered in the low .100s through most of April until a 4-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs performance on April 26 against the Atlanta Braves raised his average above .200. He managed to keep it there the rest of the way. On July 19, Elster committed a first-inning error that led to five unearned runs in the Mets' 11–2