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Today is May 17

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New York Mets released Yogi Berra on May 17, 1965.

New York Mets released Raul Gonzalez on May 17, 2004.

New York Mets released Frank Catalanotto on May 17, 2010.

Houston Astros signed Kyle Farnsworth of the New York Mets as a free agent on May 17, 2014.

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Gil Hodges
Born: April 4, 1924
at Princeton, Ind.
Died: April 2, 1972 at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Hodges
Years with Mets: 1962, 1963

65 games. 9 hr, 20 rbi, 0.248
17 runs, 0 stolen bases


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