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Says Grant: Seaver Is Forcing Me To Trade Him
New York Daily News, May 8, 1977
Daily News columnist Dick Young firmly sided with the team in its dispute with Tom Seaver in 1977, and played a big part in Seaver's decision to ask to be traded. We see one of his anti-Seaver columns here, plus a typically bizarre Basement Bertha cartoon by Bill Gallo and an article about manager Joe Frazier's many attempts to find a productive lineup.
Tags: Tom Seaver.


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Ron Swoboda
Born: June 30, 1944
at Baltimore, Md.
Swoboda
Years with Mets: 1965 - 1970

737 games. 69 hr, 304 rbi, 0.242
246 runs, 20 stolen bases


Mets vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
1968 Game Results
04/11 Mets 4, Dodgers 0 Koosman (W, 1-0)
04/13 Dodgers 1, Mets 0 Cardwell (L, 0-1)
04/19 Dodgers 3, Mets 2 Ryan (L, 1-1)
04/20 Mets 3, Dodgers 2 Seaver (W, 1-0)
04/21 Dodgers 7, Mets 6 Short (L, 0-1)
04/21 Dodgers 3, Mets 2 Rohr (L, 0-2)
06/10 Mets 1, Dodgers 0 Seaver (W, 4-5)
06/11 Mets 3, Dodgers 0 Selma (W, 6-0)
06/12 Mets 2, Dodgers 1 Jackson (W, 1-3)
06/21 Mets 5, Dodgers 1 Selma (W, 7-1)
06/22 Dodgers 5, Mets 1 Frisella (L, 1-3)
06/23 Mets 5, Dodgers 4 Ryan (W, 6-5)
08/02 Mets 3, Dodgers 2 Seaver (W, 10-7)
08/03 Dodgers 8, Mets 0 Jackson (L, 3-5)
08/04 Mets 8, Dodgers 4 Koonce (W, 2-4)
08/04 Dodgers 2, Mets 0 McAndrew (L, 0-2)
08/13 Mets 2, Dodgers 0 Cardwell (W, 6-10)
08/14 Mets 4, Dodgers 1 Koosman (W, 16-7)
1968 totals: 11 wins, 7 losses



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