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- All-Time Roster Every Met player... EVER!
- Mug Shots The pretty ones and the ugly ones -- we have them all!
- Player Awards Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Hall of Fame, and more.
- Transactions Over a thousand player transactions -- in chronological order!
- Managers & Coaches The men who have led the Mets, and the men who helped them.
- Mets Staff Executives, General Managers, Broadcasters, and more. (And Jane Jarvis too!)
- Birth Places Perfect for planning your Mets pilgrimages!
- Oldest Living Mets See which Mets players have spent the most time walking the Earth.
- Necrology Mets players and personnel who are no longer with us.

- Game Results
  All the wins, all the losses. Includes box scores and score cards!
- Opening Day
  The first day of each season! See the starting lineups, who started at each position year-by-year, and leaders by position.
- Walkoff Wins & Losses
  Interactively search for the happiest and saddest endings to Mets games.
- Postseason Games How the Mets have fared in the games that count the most!
- No-Hitters & One-Hitters See a list of every no-hitter and one-hitter pitched by the Mets, or against them. One of these categories was frustratingly empty for over fifty years, but not anymore!
- All-Star Games Mets who have appeared in baseball's Mid-Summer Classic
- Opponents & Ballparks See the Mets won-lost record against every team, and in every ballpark in which they've played!
- Daily Standings What was the Mets' pennant outlook on any given day in past seasons?
- Yearly Finishes The heights and the depths: the Mets won-lost record at the end of each season.
- Mayor's Trophy Games A look back at the long-ago annual series between the Mets and their Bronx rivals.

- Leaderboards Career, season, and individual game leaders at your fingertips!
- Team Leaders Players who led the Mets in various categories, from season to season.
- Decade Leaders Mets history broken down into ten-year chunks!
- Post-Season Leaders Mets leaders, by category, in post-season games

- Ultimate Mets Scrapbook The history of the Mets, as it was reported when it happened!
- Forum Visit the Crane Pool Forum to discuss the Mets and just about anything else!
- Fan Memories Insightful. Poignant. Thrilling. Somber. Nutty. Our visitors have submitted thousands of thoughts and memories of the Mets and the games they've played.
- Mets Uniforms It's more than just laundry! Trace the evolution of the Mets official uniform over the years.
- Uniform Numbers In association with Mets By the Numbers, we present a full history of who wore what number, and when!/li>
- Baseball Cards Our collection of home-made baseball cards, in the style of the classic Topps cards of the 1970's.
- This Date in Mets History Births, Deaths, Transactions, Newspaper Covers

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The Ultimate Mets Scrapbook, a website within a website, presents the history of the Mets as it was originally reported. The games, the trades, the people, the places. The good news and the bad news. The hard news, and the soft news. We have examples of all of that here.

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	Mets' Kress Is Dead at 55 Newsday, November 30, 1962 Obituary for Red Kress, one of the coaches on Casey Stengel's 1962 staff.
Tags: Red Kress.

	Rogers Hornsby, Hall Of Famer, Succumbs to Heart Attack at 66 Brooklyn Eagle, January 6, 1963 Rogers Hornsby, one of baseball's all-time greats, ended his career on Casey Stengel's 1962 coaching staff. His obituary includes comments from Stan Musial and Pie Traynor.
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	Johnny Murphy: He Built Winner on Faith, Trust New York Daily News, January 16, 1970 Obituary for Mets GM Johnny Murphy, who assembled the 1969 World Champs.
Tags: Johnny Murphy.

	Born in Middle America, Tested on Iwo Jima New York Daily News, April 4, 1972 Dick Young eulogizes Gil Hodges. Plus Phil Pepe on "The Last Plane Trip Home to Brooklyn" and a memorial cartoon by Bill Gallo.
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	Man Who Built Yankees, George Weiss, Dies at 78 Newsday, August 14, 1972 Not only did Weiss build a dynasty in the Bronx, but he also helped build the franchise that would call Queens its home. He would serve as President of the Mets from 1962 to 1964. This is his obituary.
Tags: George Weiss.

	Casey: Many Legends in His Own Time; Dead at 85, He Leaves Us Laughing New York Daily News, October 1, 1975 Obituary of Casey Stengel, by Phil Pepe of the Daily News. Plus a supporting article where Billy Martin and other ex-Yankees who played for Stengel share their memories.
Tags: Casey Stengel.

	Joan Payson, Mrs. Met, Is Dead New York Daily News, October 5, 1975 Obituary of Joan Whitney Payson, original owner of the Mets.
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	Crash Victim Frisella Mourned New York Daily News, January 4, 1977 News account of the accidental death of former Mets reliever Danny Frisella.
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	Clyde McCullough Was Truly One Of A Kind Asheville Citizen Times, September 21, 1982 Obituary of Clyde McCullough, a coach with the 1963 Mets.
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	Grover Powell, former pitcher for N.Y. Mets, dies of leukemia News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), May 22, 1985 Grover Powell's career got off to a promising start, but he was derailed by an early injury. He also, sadly, suffered an early death. This is his obituary.
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	Yankees Great Red Ruffing Is Dead at 80 Newsday, February 20, 1986 Red Ruffing was a Hall-of-Fame pitcher who served on Casey Stengel's 1962 Mets coaching staff.
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	Niss services set New York Daily News, May 2, 1987 A brief obituary of Lou Niss, longtime Mets traveling secretary who was pictured in many yearbook team photos.
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	Former Met Espinosa Dies of Heart Attack Newsday, January 2, 1988 Obituary of former Mets pitcher Nino Espinosa.
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	Ex-Dodger star Lavagetto dies San Francisco Examiner, August 11, 1990 Cookie Lavagetto was one of Casey Stengel's coaches during the 1962 and 1963 seasons. His place in Mets lore is as part of a Marv Throneberry anecdote, where he tells his manager, "Don’t bother arguing Casey, he missed first base too.”
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	Shea, father of Mets, dies: A lover of baseball and man for all seasons New York Daily News, October 4, 1991 Obituary of William A. Shea, one of the founders of the Mets and the man for whom Shea Stadium was named.
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	Ex-C.R. manager Parker dies at 79 The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), July 29, 1992 Obituary for Salty Parker who served as Mets interim manager after Wes Westrum was fired.
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	Ex-Met Coach Dies Newsday, December 15, 1992 Obituary for Rube Walker, the longtime Mets pitching coach who served under managers from Gil Hodges to Joe Torre, and tutored young pitchers like Seaver, Koosman, Ryan, Gentry, Matlack, and McGraw.
Tags: Rube Walker.

	In tough times, Marv made Mets marvelous New York Daily News, June 26, 1994 Obituary for Marvelous Marv Throneberry, an early Mets legend.
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	Met originals recall a voice, forever plaid New York Daily News, June 12, 1995 Obituary of original Mets broadcaster Lindsey Nelson
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