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Manuel manages to focus on future

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Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 10:25 p.m.

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Former D-backs manager Bob Melvin has been hired by the Mets as a pro scout. New minor-league field coordinator Terry Collins once skippered the Astros and Angels. Wally Backman is in Brooklyn. Jerry Manuel understands he must get off to a good start in 2010 ...

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The Score: Swoboda's 'catch' of a lifetime

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Published Oct. 17, 2009 at 5:25 p.m.

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In Game Four of the 1969 World Series, the Mets were leading the Baltimore Orioles 1-0. Our ace, Tom Seaver, had been brilliant all day, but late in the afternoon, with long autumn shadows gathering on the grass at Shea Stadium, trouble was brewing ...

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Where Are They Now? Former Met Rafael Santana

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Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 11:06 a.m.

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One player on the 1986 Mets who skirted trouble, and was more known for his deft fielding, was Rafael Santana, the shortstop for the world champions ...

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Gentry finally feeling love from Mets

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 6:01 p.m.

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Gary Gentry was just a 22-year-old in 1969, a rookie with a rocket right arm on a remarkable team. He was too young to understand the magnitude of what he and his young teammates were doing. It was all a whirlwind ...

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NOSTALGIA FOR '69 METS NO BALM FOR '09 MESS

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Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 3:58 a.m.

LAST night at Citi Field, the Miracle Mets were overshad owed by the Miserable Mets ... HUBBUCH ON TWITTER A night honoring the 1969 championship team just underscored how awful the 2009 season has been. Images of Ron Swoboda and Tommie Agee making ...

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Miracle Mets of 1969 are honored in ceremony

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Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.

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Tom Seaver instinctively toed the bronze strip in between parking spaces. On that plaque, which reads "Pitcher's Plate, Shea Stadium. 1964-2008," was where Seaver stopped Saturday to talk a little bit about the 1969 Miracle Mets ...

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Swoboda dives into memories

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Published Aug. 20, 2009 at 7:55 p.m.

When the Miracle Mets gather at Citi Field Saturday to mark the 40th anniversary of their championship season, Ron Swoboda's miracle grab may be the signature moment they celebrate ...

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Seaver, Kooz and Ryan forever friends and champs

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Published Aug. 18, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

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Tom Seaver cherishes those quiet moments, when he and his teammates on the 1969 Mets felt that they could win, a sense mostly absent from the expansion team's inept-yet-cuddly history before that "Miracle" World Series title ...

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PINING FOR BOBBBY V

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Published Aug. 9, 2009 at 3:56 a.m.

Nearly seven years have passed since Bobby Valentine last appeared in a Mets uniform. He has spent six of those years mostly out of sight here, managing in Japan ... Nevertheless, Valentine seems to have never left the minds of Mets' fans ... Whenever ...

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HoJo says his sluggers 'just not good enough'

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Published July 24, 2009 at 2:20 p.m.

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As the Mets try to regroup against the Astros after an off-day, hitting coach Howard Johnson has watched his hitters get shut out five times this month and nine times this season. In July, the Mets have scored an MLB-low 49 runs ...

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