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Today is May 17

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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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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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Ron Swoboda
Born: June 30, 1944
at Baltimore, Md.
Swoboda
Years with Mets: 1965 - 1970

737 games. 69 hr, 304 rbi, 0.242
246 runs, 20 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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