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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!
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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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	Bud Harrelson Is No Joke To New York Mets' Foes Zanesville Times Recorder, July 21, 1968 A wire-service article from 1968 profiles Bud Harrelson. It opens with some Henny Youngman style jokes about Bud's light weight and goes on to describe some of the good-natured ribbing that Harrelson gets from his teammates. Bud also discusses his approach as a leadoff hitter.
Tags: Bud Harrelson.

	Koosman Misses Award by a Vote Newsday, November 22, 1968 Jerry Koosman almost became the National League Rookie of the Year for 1968, finished second by one vote to "John Bench."
Tags: Jerry Koosman.

	Seaver, Perfect 8⅓, One-Hits Cubs, 4-0 New York Daily News, July 10, 1969 News account of Tom Seaver's "imperfect game" against the Cubs at Shea Stadium on July 9, 1969.
Tags: Tom Seaver.

	Tom Seaver, by Bruce Stark New York Daily News, September 17, 1969 One in a series of portraits of the 1969 Mets by cartoonist Bruce Stark for the Daily News.
Tags: Tom Seaver.

	Cleon Jones, by Bruce Stark New York Daily News, September 18, 1969 One in a series of portraits of the 1969 Mets by cartoonist Bruce Stark for the Daily News.
Tags: Cleon Jones.

	Jerry Koosman, by Bruce Stark New York Daily News, September 19, 1969 One in a series of portraits of the 1969 Mets by cartoonist Bruce Stark for the Daily News.
Tags: Jerry Koosman.

	Ron Swoboda, by Bruce Stark New York Daily News, September 22, 1969 One in a series of portraits of the 1969 Mets by cartoonist Bruce Stark for the Daily News.
Tags: Ron Swoboda.

	Bud Harrelson, by Bruce Stark New York Daily News, September 26, 1969 One in a series of portraits of the 1969 Mets by cartoonist Bruce Stark for the Daily News.
Tags: Bud Harrelson.

	Wayne Garrett, by Bruce Stark New York Daily News, September 29, 1969 One in a series of portraits of the 1969 Mets by cartoonist Bruce Stark for the Daily News.
Tags: Wayne Garrett.

	Hodges discounts odds; Stengel sez Mets best New York Daily News, October 4, 1969 Coverage from the Daily News as the first-ever NLCS series is set to begin, with the Mets preparing to play the Braves in 1969. Also an article about the upcoming ALCS between the Orioles and the Twins, and the Long Island Railroad offers special service to Shea for the playoff games.

	He Met the Challenge Oakland Tribune, October 14, 1969 As Bud Harrelson is playing in the 1969 World Series, a reporter from his native Bay Area checks in on Bud's high school baseball coach Don Curley, who remembers Bud as a "4-foot-10-inch teenager."
Tags: Bud Harrelson.

	Agee Calls 1st Catch Harder; Hodges Chooses 2d New York Daily News, October 15, 1969 Tommie Agee and Gil Hodges will have to agree to disagree about which one of Agee's catches in Game Three of the 1969 World Series was more impressive.
Tags: Tommie Agee, Gil Hodges.

	New York: Furs For Men Bags Another Sports Star Newsday, November 4, 1969 This is an icky story.
Tags: Tom Seaver.

	Mets Land Foy to Play 3d, Send Otis, Johnson to KC New York Daily News, December 4, 1969 One of the Mets earliest regrettable trades was the one that sent Amos Otis to the Royals for Joe Foy. Otis would go on to play 14 seasons in Kansas City, winning three Gold Gloves and making five All-Star teams. Foy was... less successful.
Tags: Joe Foy, Bob Johnson, Amos Otis.

	Johnny Murphy: He Built Winner on Faith, Trust New York Daily News, January 16, 1970 Obituary for Mets GM Johnny Murphy, who assembled the 1969 World Champs.
Tags: Johnny Murphy.

	Young Ideas New York Daily News, February 5, 1970 It's spring training, 1970 and Bud Harrelson is a defending World Champion shortstop. In Dick Young's column, Bud reflects on his recovery from knee surgery in 1968 and how, as a minor league player attending a Mets game in San Francisco, he gained confidence when he witnessed his future mentor Roy McMillan make an error.
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Roy McMillan.

	After Slight Delay, Chilcott on Way Memphis Press Scimitar, April 14, 1970 Reggie Jackson has established himself as a superstar, but Steve Chilcott, the player the Mets drafted instead of Reggie, is still hanging in there four years later, hoping to have a big league career.
Tags: Steve Chilcott.

	Young Ideas New York Daily News, April 29, 1970 In Dick Young's column, Bud Harrelson talks about the reaction to his first out-of-the-park home run. When asked for an autograph, Bud offered to sign it "Baby Ruth".
Tags: Bud Harrelson.

	Mets' Bud Harrelson A Lover, Not a Fighter The Times (Munster, Indiana), July 9, 1970 Three years before the now legendary fight with Pete Rose, Bud Harrelson took a few steps towards the mound and had to be restrained when he felt that Cardinals pitcher Jerry Reuss was throwing at him.
Tags: Bud Harrelson.

	Cool Papa Bell Born Too Soon Newsday, September 5, 1970 Negro League legend Cool Papa Bell visits with Mets first baseman Donn Clendenon.
Tags: Donn Clendenon.