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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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	Redmen Steal No-Hitter From Yale Newsday, May 22, 1981 Some have called it the greatest pitching duel in the history of college baseball, and both pitches were future Mets: Frank Viola for St. John's and Ron Darling for Yale.
Tags: Ron Darling, Frank Viola.

	Mazzilli to Texas for 2 prospects New York Daily News, April 2, 1982 Trades for "prospects" don't generally get fans very excited, but in this case the two prospects were Walt Terrell (who would eventually be traded for Howard Johnson) and Ron Darling.
Tags: Ron Darling, Lee Mazzilli, Walt Terrell.

	The Yale Man Passes Toughest Test of Career Newsday, October 2, 1985 Newsday's Steve Jacobson salutes Ron Darling after he came through for the Mets in the first of three do-or-die games that the Mets would play in St. Louis as they battled the Cardinals for the division title in October 1985. Plus: Dwight Gooden says he had wanted to start that game.
Tags: Ron Darling, Dwight Gooden.

	Full-Court Press: Darling, Teufel to fight assault charges New York Daily News, July 23, 1986 Ron Darling and Tim Teufel got into some legal trouble in Houston during the 1986 season.
Tags: Ron Darling, Tim Teufel.

	Sweet taste of victory New York Daily News, October 16, 1986 Ron Darling's column in the Daily News after the Mets defeated the Astros in the 1986 NLCS. Plus, "Astros' Lanier: We blew it". Houston's manager comments after his team is ousted from the postseason
Tags: Ron Darling.