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- Player Awards Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Hall of Fame, and more.
- Transactions Over a thousand player transactions -- in chronological order!
- Managers & Coaches The men who have led the Mets, and the men who helped them.
- Mets Staff Executives, General Managers, Broadcasters, and more. (And Jane Jarvis too!)
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  All the wins, all the losses. Includes box scores and score cards!
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  The first day of each season! See the starting lineups, who started at each position year-by-year, and leaders by position.
- Walkoff Wins & Losses
  Interactively search for the happiest and saddest endings to Mets games.
- Postseason Games How the Mets have fared in the games that count the most!
- No-Hitters & One-Hitters See a list of every no-hitter and one-hitter pitched by the Mets, or against them. One of these categories was frustratingly empty for over fifty years, but not anymore!
- All-Star Games Mets who have appeared in baseball's Mid-Summer Classic
- Opponents & Ballparks See the Mets won-lost record against every team, and in every ballpark in which they've played!
- Daily Standings What was the Mets' pennant outlook on any given day in past seasons?
- Yearly Finishes The heights and the depths: the Mets won-lost record at the end of each season.
- Mayor's Trophy Games A look back at the long-ago annual series between the Mets and their Bronx rivals.

- Leaderboards Career, season, and individual game leaders at your fingertips!
- Team Leaders Players who led the Mets in various categories, from season to season.
- Decade Leaders Mets history broken down into ten-year chunks!
- Post-Season Leaders Mets leaders, by category, in post-season games

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The Ultimate Mets Scrapbook, a website within a website, presents the history of the Mets as it was originally reported. The games, the trades, the people, the places. The good news and the bad news. The hard news, and the soft news. We have examples of all of that here.

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	Pirates Ship Taveras to Mets, Acquire Foli: Tanner Seeking to Bolster Buc Defense Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 20, 1979 The Tim Foli/Frank Taveras trade, as reported from Pittsburgh. From this perspective, Taveras is a poor defensive player who was just "peddled" to the Mets.
Tags: Tim Foli, Frank Taveras.

	Torre: Fine performance, lousy script New York Daily News, June 15, 1979 The final years of the Mets under the Payson ownership were bleak, and here Mike Lupica lets them have it. Plus, Bud Harrelson settles in as a Phillie and the Mets are not likely to pull off a deadline deal for a pitcher.
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Joe Torre.

	Mule Name Nettles Mets' Fans Daily Record (Morris County, NJ), July 9, 1979 Sports columnist Steve Caulk reacts to the announcement that the Mets' mule mascot will be named "Mettle".

	All-Star pick Mazzilli: I should be starting New York Daily News, July 11, 1979 Lee Mazzilli is a 1979 All-Star (he would, in fact, become the first Met to homer in the All-Star game that year) but feels he should be in the starting lineup.
Tags: Lee Mazzilli.

	Hebner dealt to Tigers for .211, .222 hitters New York Daily News, November 1, 1979
Tags: Richie Hebner.

	METS SOLD: Record $21.1 million paid by Doubleday-Pickett group New York Daily News, January 25, 1980 The Mets are sold for the first time in their history. Plus, "Mets present a big task for Doubleday".
Tags: Lorinda de Roulet, Nelson Doubleday.

	Mets: Series in '80s: 'Do anything to bring fans winner,' vows Wilpon New York Daily News, January 26, 1980 The new Mets owners make a bold promise, one that they fulfilled. Plus, "New Met boss Wilpon grew up a Dodger fan" and "Met players cautiously optimistic".
Tags: Lorinda de Roulet, Nelson Doubleday, Fred Wilpon.

	The owners who give Mets Midas touch; Martin as manager could solve Mets problems New York Daily News, January 27, 1980 Profiles of the new Mets leadership. Phil Pepe of the Daily News suggests Billy Martin for Mets manager.
Tags: Nelson Doubleday, Fred Wilpon.

	Mets pick a Strawberry in draft New York Daily News, June 4, 1980 Darryl Strawberry is selected by the Mets in the first round of the 1980 amateur free-agent draft. (Plus Billy Beane and John Gibbons.)
Tags: Billy Beane, John Gibbons, Darryl Strawberry.

	Torre's faith has Mets believin' New York Daily News, June 15, 1980 The 1980 Mets are... better than the 1979 Mets.
Tags: Joe Torre.

	Henderson HR in 9th Stuns the Giants, 7-6 Newsday, June 15, 1980 A game-winning home run by Steve Henderson caps a big comeback for the Mets. This was a big standout moment in an era for the team that had few highlights.
Tags: Steve Henderson.

	Redmen Steal No-Hitter From Yale Newsday, May 22, 1981 Some have called it the greatest pitching duel in the history of college baseball, and both pitches were future Mets: Frank Viola for St. John's and Ron Darling for Yale.
Tags: Ron Darling, Frank Viola.

	Don't Pick on Strawberry; He's Growing Into a Body Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.), June 7, 1981 Darryl Strawberry of the Lynchburg Mets stirred up some controversy when asked by a reporter about Ellis Valentine.
Tags: Darryl Strawberry.

	Bamberger Gives In to Mets' Temptation Newsday, October 20, 1981 The Mets new manager accepts his position, reluctantly.
Tags: George Bamberger.

	New Pupils for Bamberger; Torre Sorting Job Opportunities Newsday, October 21, 1981 George Bamberger is expected to be a good instructor for the Mets' young pitchers. Meanwhile, his predecessor, Joe Torre, is receiving interest from other clubs.
Tags: George Bamberger, Frank Cashen.

	Foster's $10M 2d richest pact New York Daily News, February 11, 1982 The Mets make their new player, George Foster, the second-highest paid player in baseball. Also: "Lasorda glad he'll see less of Foster", "Mets plan to solve pitching woes next" and "Foster pact no big deal to Met board chairman".
Tags: George Foster.

	Met players glad to have latest mate New York Daily News, February 12, 1982 George Foster is a Met, and his new teammates are looking forward to big things. Plus, a Bill Gallo cartoon that addresses Foster's warning to LaGuardia airplane traffic.
Tags: George Foster.

	Mazzilli to Texas for 2 prospects New York Daily News, April 2, 1982 Trades for "prospects" don't generally get fans very excited, but in this case the two prospects were Walt Terrell (who would eventually be traded for Howard Johnson) and Ron Darling.
Tags: Ron Darling, Lee Mazzilli, Walt Terrell.

	Viewing the Mets in a New Light Newsday, August 31, 1982 Newsday's TV sports columnist Stan Isaacs on the 1982 Mets broadcast team of Ralph Kiner and Lorn Brown. It was a one-year failed experiment. Fortunately, the Mets noticed and the booth became much livelier in 1983.
Tags: Lorn Brown, Ralph Kiner.

	Clyde McCullough Was Truly One Of A Kind Asheville Citizen Times, September 21, 1982 Obituary of Clyde McCullough, a coach with the 1963 Mets.
Tags: Clyde McCullough.