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New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson on May 5, 1994.

New York Mets signed free agent Juan Lagares on May 5, 2006.

New York Mets released Ben Johnson on May 5, 2008.

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Moses Offers the Dodgers Site in Queens for Stadium
New York Daily News, April 19, 1957
Walter O'Malley already had his sites set on Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, but New York City made a last-ditch effort to keep the Dodgers, offering them the site where Shea Stadium would one day be built.


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Art Shamsky
Born: October 14, 1941
at St. Louis, Mo.
Shamsky
Years with Mets: 1968 - 1971

406 games. 42 hr, 162 rbi, 0.266
133 runs, 4 stolen bases


Mets vs. Colorado Rockies
2008 Game Results
05/23 Rockies 6, Mets 5 Heilman (L, 0-1)
05/24 Mets 9, Rockies 2 Vargas (W, 1-2)
05/25 Rockies 4, Mets 1 Maine (L, 5-4)
06/20 Mets 7, Rockies 2 Maine (W, 7-5)
06/21 Rockies 7, Mets 1 Martinez (L, 2-1)
06/22 Mets 3, Rockies 1 Pelfrey (W, 4-6)
07/11 Mets 2, Rockies 1 Feliciano (W, 2-2)
07/12 Mets 3, Rockies 0 Muniz (W, 1-1)
07/13 Mets 7, Rockies 0 Pelfrey (W, 8-6)
2008 totals: 6 wins, 3 losses



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