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New York Mets traded Tim Foli and Greg Field to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Frank Taveras on April 19, 1979.

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Mets' Owner Is a Diamond's Best Friend
Newsday, April 12, 1962
A profile of Joan Payson from Newsday's "Paging Women" feature, a section of the paper for news deemed of interest to women. As we saw with an earlier Newsday profile (from 1959), Newsday refers to her as "Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson" and never mentions her actual name, Joan.
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Marv Throneberry
Born: September 2, 1933
at Collierville, Tenn.
Died: June 23, 1994 at Fisherville, Tenn.
Throneberry
Years with Mets: 1962, 1963

130 games. 16 hr, 50 rbi, 0.240
29 runs, 1 stolen bases


Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1975 Game Results
04/16 Cardinals 3, Mets 2 Matlack (L, 0-1)
04/17 Mets 14, Cardinals 7 Baldwin (W, 1-1)
04/22 Mets 9, Cardinals 5 Koosman (W, 1-0)
04/23 Mets 7, Cardinals 1 Seaver (W, 2-2)
06/23 Cardinals 1, Mets 0 Webb (L, 1-3)
06/23 Cardinals 4, Mets 0 Stone (L, 1-1)
06/24 Mets 5, Cardinals 1 Koosman (W, 6-5)
06/25 Mets 2, Cardinals 1 Seaver (W, 11-4)
07/28 Mets 11, Cardinals 7 Matlack (W, 12-8)
07/29 Cardinals 5, Mets 3 Seaver (L, 14-7)
07/29 Mets 11, Cardinals 6 Hall (W, 4-2)
07/30 Cardinals 5, Mets 2 Tate (L, 4-9)
09/05 Mets 5, Cardinals 2 Seaver (W, 21-7)
09/06 Cardinals 6, Mets 3 Koosman (L, 11-13)
09/07 Cardinals 12, Mets 4 Matlack (L, 16-10)
09/12 Cardinals 5, Mets 1 Matlack (L, 16-11)
09/13 Mets 6, Cardinals 2 Webb (W, 7-6)
09/14 Cardinals 6, Mets 2 Seaver (L, 21-9)
1975 totals: 9 wins, 9 losses



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