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New York Mets traded Chico Fernandez and Bobby Catton to the Chicago White Sox for Charley Smith on April 23, 1964.

New York Mets claimed Jeff Kaiser on waivers from the Cincinnati Reds on April 23, 1993.

New York Mets signed free agent Gerald Williams on April 23, 2004.

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A true original: Hobie Landrith, the first Met and a close friend of Willie Mays, dies at 93
Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), April 12, 2023
Obituary for Hobie Landrith, the first player that the Mets selected in the 1961 expansion draft.
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Charley Smith
Born: September 15, 1937
at Charleston, S.C.
Died: November 29, 1994 at Reno, Nev.
Smith
Years with Mets: 1964, 1965

262 games. 36 hr, 120 rbi, 0.242
93 runs, 4 stolen bases


Mets vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
2006 Game Results
06/05 Mets 4, Dodgers 1 Soler (W, 1-1)
06/06 Dodgers 8, Mets 5 Martinez (L, 5-2)
06/07 Mets 9, Dodgers 7 Glavine (W, 9-2)
09/07 Mets 7, Dodgers 0 Glavine (W, 13-6)
09/08 Dodgers 5, Mets 0 Maine (L, 5-4)
09/09 Mets 3, Dodgers 2 Hernandez (W, 8-6)
09/10 Dodgers 9, Mets 1 Trachsel (L, 14-7)
2006 totals: 4 wins, 3 losses



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