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New York Mets signed free agent Cleon Jones on July 5, 1962.

New York Mets claimed Chris Schwinden on waivers from the New York Yankees on July 5, 2012.

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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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Jerry Koosman
Born: December 23, 1942
at Appleton, Minn.
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Years with Mets: 1967 - 1978

376 games. 140 - 137, 3.09
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Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers
1999 Game Results
05/17 Brewers 7, Mets 6 Jones (L, 3-2)
05/18 Brewers 4, Mets 2 Cook (L, 5-1)
05/20 Mets 11, Brewers 10 Leiter (W, 2-4)
05/20 Mets 10, Brewers 1 Yoshii (W, 4-3)
08/02 Mets 7, Brewers 2 Reed (W, 10-3)
08/03 Mets 10, Brewers 3 Hershiser (W, 11-8)
08/04 Mets 9, Brewers 5 Rogers (W, 1-0)
1999 totals: 5 wins, 2 losses



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