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New York Mets released Yogi Berra on May 17, 1965.

New York Mets released Raul Gonzalez on May 17, 2004.

New York Mets released Frank Catalanotto on May 17, 2010.

Houston Astros signed Kyle Farnsworth of the New York Mets as a free agent on May 17, 2014.

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Cubs Top Mets in 2 Games; Brock HR Hits Bleachers
New York Daily News, June 18, 1962
On the surface, it looks like just another pair of losses for the 1962 Mets, but one of these games has become the stuff of Mets lore: It's when Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a triple but was called out for failing to touch first base.
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Chico Fernandez
Born: March 2, 1932
at Havana, Cuba
Died: June 11, 2016 at Sunrise, Fla.
Fernandez
Years with Mets: 1963

58 games. 1 hr, 9 rbi, 0.200
12 runs, 3 stolen bases


Mets vs. San Francisco Giants
1992 Game Results
05/22 Giants 7, Mets 6 Burke (L, 1-2)
05/23 Mets 6, Giants 3 Gooden (W, 4-4)
05/24 Mets 6, Giants 0 Cone (W, 5-2)
06/01 Mets 14, Giants 1 Fernandez (W, 4-5)
06/02 Mets 4, Giants 3 Whitehurst (W, 1-2)
07/16 Giants 6, Mets 4 Gooden (L, 6-9)
07/17 Mets 1, Giants 0 Cone (W, 10-4)
07/18 Mets 3, Giants 0 Fernandez (W, 8-8)
07/19 Mets 8, Giants 4 Schourek (W, 2-3)
08/24 Mets 4, Giants 1 Gooden (W, 7-11)
08/25 Mets 2, Giants 1 Fernandez (W, 11-9)
08/26 Mets 5, Giants 3 Hillman (W, 2-0)
1992 totals: 10 wins, 2 losses



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