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Today is May 8

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New York Mets traded Larry Foss to the Milwaukee Braves for Chico Fernandez on May 8, 1963.

New York Mets traded Jay Hook and Adrian Garrett to the Milwaukee Braves for Roy McMillan on May 8, 1964.

New York Mets released Dick Tidrow on May 8, 1984.

New York Mets traded Matt Harvey to the Cincinnati Reds for Devin Mesoraco on May 8, 2018.

New York Mets released Robinson Cano on May 8, 2022.

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Random Article from the Ultimate Mets Scrapbook

Foli is cool as Joe goes to Chapman
New York Daily News, March 3, 1979
It's spring training 1979, and a "mature" Tim Foli is about to lose his starting shortstop job to Kelvin Chapman. Foli would be dealt to Pittsburgh in the coming weeks.
Tags: Kelvin Chapman, Tim Foli, Joe Torre.


Randomly selected Met Player

Cleon Jones
Born: August 4, 1942
at Plateau, Ala.
Jones
Years with Mets: 1963, 1965 - 1975

1201 games. 93 hr, 521 rbi, 0.281
563 runs, 91 stolen bases


Mets vs. Chicago Cubs
1997 Game Results
04/19 Mets 6, Cubs 3 Clark (W, 1-1)
04/20 Mets 8, Cubs 2 Jones (W, 3-1)
04/20 Cubs 4, Mets 3 Mlicki (L, 0-1)
04/21 Cubs 6, Mets 4 McMichael (L, 0-2)
06/10 Mets 10, Cubs 6 Mlicki (W, 2-5)
06/11 Cubs 5, Mets 4 McMichael (L, 3-5)
07/16 Cubs 6, Mets 5 Reynoso (L, 6-3)
07/17 Mets 4, Cubs 3 Franco (W, 2-1)
09/05 Cubs 8, Mets 3 Bohanon (L, 4-4)
09/06 Cubs 7, Mets 5 Franco (L, 4-3)
09/07 Mets 9, Cubs 2 Jones (W, 14-8)
1997 totals: 5 wins, 6 losses



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