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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!
- Forum Visit the Crane Pool Forum to discuss the Mets and just about anything else!
- 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>
- Baseball Cards Our collection of home-made baseball cards, in the style of the classic Topps cards of the 1970's.
- 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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	Reds shortstop great McMillan dies at 67 Cincinnati Enquirer, November 3, 1997 Obituary of former Met player and interim manager Roy McMillan.
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	Ex-major league baseball player Dick Sisler dies The Tennessean, November 21, 1998 Obituary for Dick Sisler, who was a former coach for the Mets.
Tags: Dick Sisler.

	M. Donald infamy New York Daily News, November 29, 1998 Obituary of former Mets Chairman of the Board M. Donald Grant.
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	Pitcher with World Series-winning Pirates Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 23, 1999 Obituary of Wilmer "Vineger Bend" Mizell, a former Met who also served in the United States Congress.
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	Stanky is dead at 83 New York Daily News, July 6, 1999 Although it's not mentioned in this obituary, Eddie Stanky served one year in the Mets front office, in 1965. He is better known as a "fiery second baseman" with the Dodgers, Giants, and Braves.
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	Tigers scout Larry Bearnarth dies Tampa Bay Times, January 3, 2000 Obituary for former Mets pitcher Larry Bearnarth.
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	John Milner, 50, A Met in the '70s Newsday, January 7, 2000 Obituary of former Mets player John "The Hammer" Milner
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	Tommie Agee, Star in '69 Series, Dies Newsday, January 23, 2001 Marty Noble's obituary of Mets centerfielder Tommie Agee.
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	Woodling, Yanks' Old Faithful, dies at 78 New York Daily News, June 3, 2001 Obituary for Gene Woodling, former player with the Yankees, Orioles, Indians, Senators, and Pirates, who finished his career with the 1962 Mets.
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	Love of a Lifetime Fresno Bee, August 29, 2001 Obituary for Dick Selma, a pitcher who started his career with the Mets but was lost in the expansion draft to the San Diego Padres. His career would last until 1974.
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	Ex-major leaguer, deputy sheriff Chiti is in trivia books Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), February 4, 2002 Obituary of former Met Harry Chiti, who was once traded for himself.
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	Wes Westrum, Catcher, Managed Mets, Giants Newsday, May 30, 2002 Obituary of former Mets manager Wes Westrum.
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	Even with a strange glove, ex-Pirate was always a hit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 20, 2002 Better known as a Pittsburgh Pirate, Dick Stuart, "Doctor Strangeglove", was a Mets first baseman in 1965. This is his obituary.
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	Warren Spahn dies at 82 New York Daily News, November 25, 2003 Obituary of Warren Spahn, Hall-of-Fame pitcher who was with the Mets in 1965.
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	Tug McGraw Dies Newsday, January 6, 2004 Obituary of Tug McGraw, Mets' colorful relief pitcher who coined the phrase "Ya Gotta Believe".
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	Former Mets manager Bamberger dies at 78 Newsday, April 6, 2004 Obituary of former Mets manager George Bamberger.
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	He was voice of summer New York Daily News, August 4, 2004 Mike Lupica's obituary of Mets broadcaster Bob Murphy.
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	Odds And Ends Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania), October 3, 2004 We wish we had been able to find an obituary for Hal Reniff that wasn't titled "Odds And Ends".
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	Ballplayer, Oaklander Jesse Gonder, 68, dies Oakland Tribune, November 17, 2004 Obituary for Jesse Gonder, a Mets catcher from 1963 through 1965.
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