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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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	Mets pick a Strawberry in draft New York Daily News, June 4, 1980 Darryl Strawberry is selected by the Mets in the first round of the 1980 amateur free-agent draft. (Plus Billy Beane and John Gibbons.)
Tags: Billy Beane, John Gibbons, Darryl Strawberry.

	Don't Pick on Strawberry; He's Growing Into a Body Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va.), June 7, 1981 Darryl Strawberry of the Lynchburg Mets stirred up some controversy when asked by a reporter about Ellis Valentine.
Tags: Darryl Strawberry.

	Mets' Rookie of Distinction Newsday, November 22, 1983 Darryl Strawberry is the 1983 National League Rookie of the Year.
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	Now, Straw's the Man Who Stirs the Mets Newsday, June 22, 1988 Steve Jacobson of Newsday says that Darryl Strawberry has finally reached his potential. He's carrying the Mets on his back.
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	Kirk's MVP; Darryl 2d New York Daily News, November 16, 1988 Darryl Strawberry was a strong contender for the MVP award in 1988, but he finished second to the Dodgers' Kirk Gibson.
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	Straw shuns extension New York Daily News, September 28, 1989 Darryl Strawberry won't demand a trade, but he won't sign a contract extension.
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	Darryl Makes Threatening Remarks Newsday, September 28, 1989 Darryl Strawberry isn't happy with the Mets, and he wants out.
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	On The Path Of Hodges Newsday, June 1, 1990 New Mets manager Bud Harrelson sees Gil Hodges as the role model for the kind of manager he'd like to be. Newsday's Steve Jacobsen looks back at Hodges, and speculates how Harrelson might handle a player like Darryl Strawberry differently than Davey Johnson did.
Tags: Bud Harrelson, Keith Hernandez, Gil Hodges, Davey Johnson, Darryl Strawberry.

	New Name Is on Door, But Mets Need More Newsday, June 1, 1990 As Bud Harrelson takes over the Mets, he's faced with a flailing team and a number of discontented players. This article includes grumbling from Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry
Tags: Dwight Gooden, Bud Harrelson, Davey Johnson, Kevin McReynolds, Darryl Strawberry.

	Despite loss, fans stay for stars Newsday, September 29, 2008 The Mets' season came to a heartbreaking end, but the post-game ceremony to close Shea Stadium went on.
Tags: Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry.