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New York Mets signed free agent Endy Chavez on April 29, 1996.

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Big Deal! Mets Trade 4 for Fregosi; Angels Get Ryan, 3 Prospects
New York Daily News, December 11, 1971
At the time it looked like it was the "Jim Fregosi trade" but history now knows it as the "Nolan Ryan trade". One hundred years from now, this will still probably be among the worst trades in Mets history.
Tags: Jim Fregosi, Nolan Ryan.


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Richie Ashburn
Born: March 19, 1927
at Tilden, Neb.
Died: September 9, 1997 at New York, N.Y.
Ashburn
Years with Mets: 1962

135 games. 7 hr, 28 rbi, 0.306
60 runs, 12 stolen bases


Mets vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1970 Game Results
04/10 Cardinals 7, Mets 3 McAndrew (L, 0-1)
04/11 Mets 4, Cardinals 1 Gentry (W, 1-0)
04/12 Mets 6, Cardinals 4 Seaver (W, 1-0)
05/26 Mets 5, Cardinals 1 Sadecki (W, 3-0)
05/27 Mets 3, Cardinals 0 Gentry (W, 5-2)
05/28 Cardinals 9, Mets 2 McAndrew (L, 1-4)
07/06 Mets 10, Cardinals 3 McAndrew (W, 4-6)
07/07 Mets 4, Cardinals 3 Frisella (W, 1-0)
07/08 Mets 7, Cardinals 5 Sadecki (W, 7-2)
08/05 Mets 5, Cardinals 3 Frisella (W, 5-1)
08/06 Cardinals 3, Mets 0 Seaver (L, 16-6)
08/31 Mets 11, Cardinals 5 Koosman (W, 9-6)
09/01 Mets 4, Cardinals 3 Herbel (W, 1-0)
09/02 Mets 7, Cardinals 3 Seaver (W, 18-10)
09/03 Cardinals 5, Mets 3 Gentry (L, 9-8)
09/11 Cardinals 5, Mets 2 Seaver (L, 18-11)
09/12 Mets 3, Cardinals 0 McAndrew (W, 10-11)
09/13 Cardinals 5, Mets 4 Herbel (L, 2-1)
1970 totals: 12 wins, 6 losses



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