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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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Greg Goossen
Born: December 14, 1945
at Los Angeles, Cal.
Died: February 26, 2011 at Sherman Oaks, Cal.
Goossen
Years with Mets: 1965 - 1968

99 games. 2 hr, 16 rbi, 0.202
9 runs, 0 stolen bases


Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1981 Game Results
04/15 Mets 5, Cardinals 3 Zachry (W, 2-0)
04/16 Cardinals 5, Mets 1 Scott (L, 0-1)
05/22 Mets 9, Cardinals 3 Zachry (W, 4-5)
05/23 Cardinals 8, Mets 2 Falcone (L, 1-2)
05/24 Mets 3, Cardinals 1 Allen (W, 3-1)
09/11 Cardinals 4, Mets 2 Zachry (L, 7-11)
09/12 Cardinals 4, Mets 2 Marshall (L, 2-2)
09/13 Cardinals 4, Mets 2 Leach (L, 1-1)
09/18 Mets 8, Cardinals 1 Lynch (W, 4-3)
09/19 Mets 6, Cardinals 2 Falcone (W, 3-3)
09/20 Mets 7, Cardinals 6 Allen (W, 6-5)
1981 totals: 6 wins, 5 losses



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