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Toronto Blue Jays claimed Pete Walker of the New York Mets on waivers on May 4, 2002.

New York Mets purchased Logan Verrett from the Texas Rangers on May 4, 2015.

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NL Votes Return to Gotham in '62: Houston Also Included in Expansion
New York Daily News, October 18, 1960
This serves as the official birth announcement of the New York Mets. (And also the Houston Astros.)


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Phil Mankowski
Born: January 9, 1953
at Buffalo, N.Y.
Mankowski
Years with Mets: 1980, 1982

21 games. 0 hr, 5 rbi, 0.213
3 runs, 0 stolen bases


Mets vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
1999 Game Results
05/07 Diamondbacks 14, Mets 7 Hershiser (L, 2-3)
05/08 Mets 4, Diamondbacks 2 Yoshii (W, 2-3)
05/09 Diamondbacks 11, Mets 6 Reed (L, 2-1)
05/28 Diamondbacks 2, Mets 1 Reed (L, 3-2)
05/29 Diamondbacks 8, Mets 7 Beltran (L, 1-1)
05/30 Diamondbacks 10, Mets 1 Yoshii (L, 5-4)
08/27 Mets 6, Diamondbacks 3 Dotel (W, 5-1)
08/28 Diamondbacks 5, Mets 3 Cook (L, 10-4)
08/29 Diamondbacks 8, Mets 4 Leiter (L, 10-9)
1999 totals: 2 wins, 7 losses



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