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New York Mets released Clem Labine on May 1, 1962.

New York Mets released Joe Ginsberg on May 1, 1962.

New York Yankees signed Casey Fossum of the New York Mets as a free agent on May 1, 2009.

New York Mets sold Zack Short to the Boston Red Sox on May 1, 2024.

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Moses Offers the Dodgers Site in Queens for Stadium
New York Daily News, April 19, 1957
Walter O'Malley already had his sites set on Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, but New York City made a last-ditch effort to keep the Dodgers, offering them the site where Shea Stadium would one day be built.


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Rusty Staub
Born: April 1, 1944
at New Orleans, La.
Died: March 29, 2018 at Palm Beach, Fla.
Staub
Years with Mets: 1972 - 1975, 1981 - 1985

942 games. 75 hr, 399 rbi, 0.276
296 runs, 6 stolen bases


Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
1977 Game Results
04/22 Pirates 4, Mets 3 Myrick (L, 0-1)
04/23 Pirates 6, Mets 5 Sadecki (L, 0-1)
05/24 Pirates 5, Mets 2 Matlack (L, 3-5)
07/15 Pirates 7, Mets 1 Zachry (L, 1-3)
07/15 Mets 6, Pirates 1 Espinosa (W, 5-7)
07/16 Mets 5, Pirates 3 Swan (W, 5-6)
07/17 Pirates 3, Mets 1 Matlack (L, 4-12)
07/17 Mets 9, Pirates 3 Koosman (W, 7-11)
08/11 Pirates 9, Mets 1 Zachry (L, 2-5)
08/12 Pirates 3, Mets 2 Koosman (L, 8-14)
08/12 Pirates 6, Mets 5 Siebert (L, 2-1)
08/13 Pirates 2, Mets 0 Matlack (L, 6-13)
08/14 Pirates 6, Mets 3 Espinosa (L, 6-9)
09/20 Pirates 4, Mets 2 Espinosa (L, 8-13)
09/21 Pirates 4, Mets 0 Koosman (L, 8-20)
09/27 Mets 7, Pirates 1 Espinosa (W, 9-13)
09/28 Pirates 3, Mets 2 Swan (L, 9-10)
09/29 Pirates 5, Mets 2 Medich (L, 0-1)
1977 totals: 4 wins, 14 losses



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