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New York Mets purchased Doc Medich from the Seattle Mariners on September 26, 1977.

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Says Grant: Seaver Is Forcing Me To Trade Him
New York Daily News, May 8, 1977
Daily News columnist Dick Young firmly sided with the team in its dispute with Tom Seaver in 1977, and played a big part in Seaver's decision to ask to be traded. We see one of his anti-Seaver columns here, plus a typically bizarre Basement Bertha cartoon by Bill Gallo and an article about manager Joe Frazier's many attempts to find a productive lineup.
Tags: Tom Seaver.


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Wally Backman
Born: September 22, 1959
at Hillsboro, Ore.
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Years with Mets: 1980 - 1988

765 games. 7 hr, 165 rbi, 0.283
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1. Tom Seaver 395 Seaver
2. Jerry Koosman 346
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4. Sid Fernandez 250
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6. Al Leiter 213 Koosman
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8. Jon Matlack 199
9. Bobby Jones 190
10. Craig Swan 184



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