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New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson on May 5, 1994.

New York Mets signed free agent Juan Lagares on May 5, 2006.

New York Mets released Ben Johnson on May 5, 2008.

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Joe Knows the Score; Nobody Wants Seaver
New York Daily News, June 1, 1977
As Joe Torre is hired as Mets manager, Daily News columnist Dick Young continues his vendetta that would eventually lead Tom Seaver to be traded to Cincinnati.
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Danny Napoleon
Born: January 11, 1942
at Claysburg, Pa.
Died: April 26, 2003 at Trenton, N.J.
Napoleon
Years with Mets: 1965, 1966

80 games. 0 hr, 7 rbi, 0.162
7 runs, 0 stolen bases


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