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OTD: Rusty Staub Matches MLB Mark with Eight Straight Pinch Hits
If hitting is the most difficult feat in sports, as some claim, then think of the challenge that pinch-hitting presents. Inning after inning on the bench without a chance to get into the rhythm of...
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OTD 1975: Rusty Staub Dealt to Detroit
In between the regretful trades of Nolan Ryan to Anaheim in 1972 and Tom Seaver to Cincinnati in 1977 was the departure of one of the most beloved players in franchise history. Months before that...
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MMO’s Great Eight Mets Teams: Team 8
People have been asking us all winter what we’ve been doing to pass the time during the MLB lockout. I’ll tell you what we do here at MMO — we come up with ideas that not only help us stay busy, but...
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OTD 1978: Bud Harrelson Traded to Phillies
One by one, the players who helped establish and sustain Mets success in the late 1960s and early 1970s departed. Rusty Staub in 1975. Tom Seaver in June 1977. Jerry Grote in August 1977. Jerry...
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OTD 2018: Mets Icon Rusty Staub Passes Away
On March 29, 2018 (Opening Day of the baseball season), Rusty Staub, one of the most popular players ever to wear the orange and blue of the New York Mets, passed away in a West Palm Beach, Florida...
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OTD 1972: Mets Manager Gil Hodges Passes Away
On April 2, 1972 Mets skipper and Gil Hodges passed away from a heart attack during spring training after playing a round of golf. He was two days shy of his 48th birthday. Rob Silverman of MMO...
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OTD 1972: Willie Mays Homers in Mets Debut
The pages of Mays’ storybook career were yellowing at the edges. But his star had yet to fade. Now, the Giant icon was returning to the city where it all began. Willie Mays became the game’s best...
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Shoebox Memories – 1986 Topps Tom Paciorek
We all have Aunts down in Florida. Okay, maybe not everyone, but I do. And recently she sent some “vintage” mid-80s Mets cards up to me in NY from a neighbor who wanted to get rid of them after her...
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MLB Wants To Expand; Candidate Cities Identified
Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The 2023 baseball season will see pitch clocks, larger bases, a restriction on infield shifts, and let’s not forget, a new schedule format in which every team will play...
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OTD 1972: Mets Acquire Willie Mays From San Francisco Giants
On May 11, 1972, the Mets made a trade with the San Francisco Giants to bring a legend back to where he began his career, when they acquired Willie Mays for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash...
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OTD: Rusty Staub Matches MLB Mark with Eight Straight Pinch Hits
If hitting is the most difficult feat in sports, as some claim, then think of the challenge that pinch-hitting presents. Inning after inning on the bench without a chance to get into the rhythm of...
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OTD 1975: Rusty Staub Dealt to Detroit
In between the regretful trades of Nolan Ryan to Anaheim in 1972 and Tom Seaver to Cincinnati in 1977 was the departure of one of the most beloved players in franchise history. Months before that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MMO’s Great Eight Mets Teams: Team 8
People have been asking us all winter what we’ve been doing to pass the time during the MLB lockout. I’ll tell you what we do here at MMO — we come up with ideas that not only help us stay busy, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OTD 1978: Bud Harrelson Traded to Phillies
One by one, the players who helped establish and sustain Mets success in the late 1960s and early 1970s departed. Rusty Staub in 1975. Tom Seaver in June 1977. Jerry Grote in August 1977. Jerry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OTD 2018: Mets Icon Rusty Staub Passes Away
On March 29, 2018 (Opening Day of the baseball season), Rusty Staub, one of the most popular players ever to wear the orange and blue of the New York Mets, passed away in a West Palm Beach, Florida...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OTD 1972: Mets Manager Gil Hodges Passes Away
On April 2, 1972 Mets skipper and Gil Hodges passed away from a heart attack during spring training after playing a round of golf. He was two days shy of his 48th birthday. Rob Silverman of MMO...
View ArticleClik here to view.
OTD 1972: Willie Mays Homers in Mets Debut
The pages of Mays’ storybook career were yellowing at the edges. But his star had yet to fade. Now, the Giant icon was returning to the city where it all began. Willie Mays became the game’s best...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shoebox Memories – 1986 Topps Tom Paciorek
We all have Aunts down in Florida. Okay, maybe not everyone, but I do. And recently she sent some “vintage” mid-80s Mets cards up to me in NY from a neighbor who wanted to get rid of them after her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MLB Wants To Expand; Candidate Cities Identified
Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The 2023 baseball season will see pitch clocks, larger bases, a restriction on infield shifts, and let’s not forget, a new schedule format in which every team will play...
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Spirit of ’73: Rusty Staub
We’re looking back at the 50th anniversary of the Mets’ 1973 National League pennant-winning team by reviewing the most inspirational figures of that remarkable run. We continue with a player who over...
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