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- All-Time Roster Every Met player... EVER!
- Mug Shots The pretty ones and the ugly ones -- we have them all!
- 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!)
- Birth Places Perfect for planning your Mets pilgrimages!
- Oldest Living Mets See which Mets players have spent the most time walking the Earth.
- Necrology Mets players and personnel who are no longer with us.

- Game Results
  All the wins, all the losses. Includes box scores and score cards!
- Opening Day
  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

- Ultimate Mets Scrapbook The history of the Mets, as it was reported when it happened!
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- Fan Memories Insightful. Poignant. Thrilling. Somber. Nutty. Our visitors have submitted thousands of thoughts and memories of the Mets and the games they've played.
- Mets Uniforms It's more than just laundry! Trace the evolution of the Mets official uniform over the years.
- Uniform Numbers In association with Mets By the Numbers, we present a full history of who wore what number, and when!/li>
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- This Date in Mets History Births, Deaths, Transactions, Newspaper Covers

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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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	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.

	The Mets' Newest Announcing Team Newsday, February 6, 1983 Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie will be joining Ralph Kiner in the Mets broadcast booth for the 1983 season.
Tags: Ralph Kiner, Tim McCarver, Steve Zabriskie.

	Bamberger's Had Enough Newsday, June 4, 1983 Mets manager George Bamberger, who has had heart problems in his past, resigns, fearing that continuing to manage the Mets could jeopardize his health.
Tags: George Bamberger.

	Mets send Allen, Ownbey to Cards for Hernandez New York Daily News, June 16, 1983 News report on the Mets transformational blockbuster trade of 1983, when they received Keith Hernandez from the Cardinals for Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey.
Tags: Neil Allen, Keith Hernandez, Rick Ownbey.

	Thin Pitching Key to Hernandez Deal St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 16, 1983 Coverage from St. Louis of the trade that sent Keith Hernandez to the Mets. Columnist Kevin Horrigan: "Hernandez Trade Is Ridiculous, But It Makes Sense" and also, "Keith Expected Trade -- But Later".
Tags: Keith Hernandez.

	When a Diamond Becomes a Ring Newsday, August 2, 1983 Newsday "TV Sports" columnist Stan Isaacs reviews a recent Mets broadcast on Sportschannel.
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Tim McCarver.

	Terrell Is A 2-Timer In Met Win Newsday, August 7, 1983 Pitcher Walt Terrell homers twice in a game at Wrigley Field.
Tags: Walt Terrell.

	Dwight Gooden: He's been equal to lofty expectations of Mets Tampa Tribune, September 15, 1983 Dwight Gooden's hometown paper provides an update on the young phenom as he's promoted to Tidewater at the end of the 1983 minor league season.
Tags: Dwight Gooden.

	Mets' Rookie of Distinction Newsday, November 22, 1983 Darryl Strawberry is the 1983 National League Rookie of the Year.
Tags: Darryl Strawberry.

	Seaver's Status No Cause for Alarm Newsday, January 18, 1984 The Mets have left Tom Seaver unprotected from the re-entry draft compensation pool. They figure that the White Sox need an infielder more than a starting pitcher. Newsday's Marty Noble says it's unlikely that Seaver will be lost in the draft. He was wrong.
Tags: Tom Seaver.