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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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	Pirates pitching mainstay for '60 champs Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 4, 2019 Obituary for former Pirates pitcher Bob Friend, who ended his career with the 1966 Mets.
Tags: Bob Friend.

	MLB's Leroy Stanton dies in crash Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, SC), March 19, 2019 Leroy Stanton was a young Mets prospect when he was included in the infamous deal that sent Nolan Ryan from the Mets to the Angels for Jim Fregosi.
Tags: Leroy Stanton.

	Foss, Larry C. Wichita Eagle, June 23, 2019 Obituary for Larry Foss, a pitcher for the 1962 Mets.
Tags: Larry Foss.

	Former major leaguer, Moosic native dies Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania), July 14, 2019 Joe Grzenda pitched in eight seasons in the major leagues, including 11 games with the 1967 Mets, in which he had a 2.16 ERA.
Tags: Joe Grzenda.

	First black player in Red Sox history Boston Globe, July 18, 2019 Pumpsie Green's obituary got a column on the front page of the Boston Globe.
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	Talented shortstop a one-of-a-kind star National Post (Canada), February 18, 2020 Tony Fernandez played for the 1993 Mets, but he was predominantly a Toronto Blue Jay, as this obituary demonstrates.
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	Frey a Baseball Guy New York Daily News, April 19, 2020 Jim Frey, who managed both the Cubs and the Royals, was a Mets coach in 1983 when Darryl Strawberry made his debut. This is Frey's 2020 obituary.
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	Claudell Washington, who made home run history, dies at age 65 Journal News (White Plains, NY), June 11, 2020 Claudell Washington was only with the Mets for about half a season, but his three-homer game was one of the highlights of 1980. This is his obituary.
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	Seaver Was NYC's Own New York Daily News, September 3, 2020 If you don't know who Tom Seaver was, you're on the wrong website. This is his obituary.
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	Dennis J. Sommers Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin), September 20, 2020 Funeral-home obituary for Denny Sommers, who was a former Mets coach.
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	Cards legend Gibson dies New York Daily News, October 3, 2020 Obituary of Bob Gibson, Hall-of-Fame pitcher and, briefly, a coach with the Mets.
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	'Miracle Met' Rohr passes away Billings Daily Gazette, November 12, 2020 Former pitcher Les Rohr is remembered by his hometown paper in Billings, Montana.
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	Yankees 'supersub' who became a celebrity for playing harmonica Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 11, 2020 Obituary for Phil Linz. There are any number of ways that someone can get their fifteen minutes of fame. For Phil Linz, it involved a harmonica.
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	Norm Sherry, catcher who gave Koufax key tip Newsday, March 12, 2021 Obituary for Norm Sherry, a Dodgers catcher who finished his career with the 1963 Mets.
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	Mets Mourn Pedro New York Daily News, November 9, 2021 Obituary for longtime Mets reliever Pedro Feliciano, who died at the age of 45 in 2021.
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	Former Pirate part of historic lineup Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania), January 28, 2022 Obituary for Gene Clines, a 1975 Met who had been one of the nine players who were in the first all Black-and-Latino starting lineup that was fielded by the Pirates in 1971.
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	Jeff Innis, 59, former relief pitcher for Mets Newsday, January 31, 2022 Obituary for Jeff Innis, who spent seven seasons pitching out of the Mets bullpen.
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	Ralph Terry, former KC/Yankees pitcher, dies at age 86 Kansas City Star Sun, March 20, 2022 In addition to pitching for the Kansas City A's and the Yankees, Ralph Terry appeared in 13 games for the Mets. (And 30 for the Cleveland Indians.)
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	Tommy Davis, Dodgers batting champ Newsday, April 6, 2022 Obituary for Tommy Davis, who had one solid year with the Mets in 1967 before being traded to the White Sox in a deal that brought Tommie Agee to the Mets.
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	Original Met Joe Pignatano, coach with 1969 champions Newsday, May 24, 2022 Obituary for Mets coach Joe Pignatano. Among other things, he was known fir hitting into a triple play in his final major league at bat, and for his tomato garden in the Shea Stadium bullpen.
Tags: Joe Pignatano.