On April 5, 1983, Tom Seaver started on Opening Day at Shea Stadium for the New York Mets. “The Franchise” had returned, after an exile in Cincinnati that had lasted almost six years. The Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies that day by a 2-0 score, but that was anti-climactic. More than 46,000 fans packed into the old ballpark in Queens to watch their favorite son return to...
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On April 2, 1972 Mets skipper and Gil Hodges passed away from a heart attack during spring training after playing a round of golf. He was two days shy of his 48th birthday. Rob Silverman of MMO accurately wrote that Donn Clendenon was the final piece to the championship puzzle in 1969. Hodges was the first piece. Hodges, who played 18 seasons (16 with the Dodgers, two with the Mets) and slugged...
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On March 29, 2018 (Opening Day of the baseball season), Rusty Staub, one of the most popular players ever to wear the orange and blue of the New York Mets, passed away in a West Palm Beach, Florida hospital from multiple organ failure just three days shy of his 74th birthday. He had spent eight weeks in the hospital prior to his death. The Mets had obtained Daniel Joseph Staub before the 1972...
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We heard quite a bit about league-wide competition, preventing tanking, and the threshold for the competitive balance tax (CBT) during the lockout as Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association worked toward a new collective bargaining agreement. The game is back on the field, which is great, but it does not appear that all the issues are solved. According to author...
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On March 16, Major League Baseball announced a revised schedule, including a plan to make up the first two series of the season that were delayed as a result of the lockout. For the Mets, who had five impacted games (three against the Nationals and two against the Braves), those games have been rescheduled as follows according to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. Major League Baseball's...
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