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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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Rusty Tillman
Born: August 29, 1960
at Jacksonville, Fla.
Tillman
Years with Mets: 1982

12 games. 0 hr, 0 rbi, 0.154
4 runs, 1 stolen bases


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1. Ed Kranepool 1853 Kranepool
2. David Wright 1585
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6. Cleon Jones 1201 Wright
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8. Mookie Wilson 1116
9. Darryl Strawberry 1109
10. Edgardo Alfonzo 1086



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