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METS

The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a metadata standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.


1988 National League Championship Series

For the first time in the entire series, the Mets scored first as a sacrifice fly by Kevin McReynolds scored Lenny Dykstra in the first inning to put the Mets ahead.

Aaron Laffey

Laffey made his first start for the Mets on April 7 going four and a third innings giving up three earned runs, striking out five, and walking one in a 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins.

Al Weis

After that season, he and fleet-footed outfielder Tommie Agee were traded to the New York Mets for four players (among them slugger Tommy Davis and veteran pitcher Jack Fisher).

Alejandro Cruz

As Mayor of Guaynabo, Cruz put emphasis on the city's sports programs, and, in 1983, the Mets Pavilion (named after the city's BSN basketball team; later renamed Mario Morales coliseum) was opened.

Art Mahaffey

The Cardinals traded him on April 1, 1967 along with infielder Jerry Buchek and shortstop Tony Martínez to the New York Mets in exchange for shortstop Eddie Bressoud, Danny Napoleon and cash, though he never played for the Mets.

Benny Ayala

Ayala made his major league debut as the Mets' starting left fielder at Shea Stadium on August 27, 1974.

Bob Klapisch

In response to his book on the 1992 Mets, The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets (ISBN 0-8032-7822-5), New York Mets outfielder Bobby Bonilla confronted Klapisch in the team's clubhouse, threatening him, and having to be restrained.

Bob Ojeda

In 2009, Ojeda joined SportsNet New York as a Pre-Game and Post-Game studio analyst for New York Mets Broadcasts with Chris Carlin

Bobby Bonilla

Finally, in 1995, Bonilla was traded by the Mets with a player to be named later to the Baltimore Orioles for Damon Buford and Alex Ochoa.

Dan Warthen

On June 17, 2008 Warthen was named the New York Mets pitching coach, replacing Rick Peterson.

Danny Graves

He cleared waivers and was sent to Triple-A Norfolk on August 26, but was called back up to the Mets when rosters expanded.

Dave Schneck

On December 3, 1974, Schneck was traded by the Mets with Don Hahn and Tug McGraw to the Philadelphia Phillies for Del Unser, John Stearns, and Mac Scarce.

Davey Johnson

He remains the winningest manager in Mets history and was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame with Frank Cashen, Darryl Strawberry, and Dwight Gooden on August 1, 2010.

Eddie Murray

Murray was one of several acquisitions the Mets made (including Bobby Bonilla, Willie Randolph, and Bret Saberhagen) to try to regain their winning ways.

Edgardo Alfonzo

In his first at bat of the game, Alfonzo homered over the center field fence, providing the Mets with all the offense they would need as Al Leiter threw a complete game shutout.

Endy Chávez

On September 28, the final day of the 2008 regular season and the final game at Shea Stadium, the Mets played the Florida Marlins.

Florida Instructional League

Whitey Herzog received his first managerial opportunity in the FIL, leading the team fielded by the New York Mets organization.

Floyd Youmans

One of those wins came on the second to last day of the season against Ron Darling and the New York Mets in front of 45,404 at Shea Stadium.

Youmans was born in Tampa, Florida, and was a childhood friend and Hillsborough High School teammate of former Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden before moving with his family to Fontana, California.

Gary Kaltbaum

He is a fan of baseball, football and basketball, often talking about his favorite teams, the Mets, Giants and Knicks (while occasionally tipping his hat to his adopted hometown teams in Orlando and Phoenix), as well as how he is currently performing in various fantasy leagues.

Geetha Narayanan Gopal

He received the prestigious Tigran Mets Medal during the Lake Sevan 2007 where he was the joint winner.

Guy Conti

Prior to joining the Mets, Conti held various coaching positions in the Los Angeles Dodgers' minor league system, where he befriended Sandy Koufax and also worked with young pitchers such as Pedro Martínez and Ismael Valdez.

Henri Lloyd

In 2001, Henri Lloyd’s TP3 Reflex Jacket and Hi-Fit Trouser won the Design Award METS, at the Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam.

Herb Moford

On April 11, 1962, Moford was one of four New York Mets pitchers in the first game in franchise history, an 11–4 defeat against the St. Louis Cardinals at Sportsman's Park.

J. C. Martin

After the season, the White Sox traded Martin to the New York Mets to complete a deal that had been made earlier in the season (on July 22 of that year the Mets had traded Ken Boyer to the White Sox for Bill Southworth).

Jesse Orosco

Coincidentally, Jerry Koosman, whom the Mets had traded to Minnesota in the deal that brought Orosco to New York, was on the mound for the final out of the 1969 World Series—to date, the only other Fall Classic the Mets have won.

Kelvin Chapman

The following year he was promoted to the Mets A-league team, the Wausau Mets of the Midwest League.

Let's Go Mets Go

A video was also produced, featuring Mets players, coaches and fans, along with a cameo appearance by Joe Piscopo.

Manny Acta

The fatal plane crash on October 11, 2006, that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his pilot crashed into Acta's apartment building in New York while he was still coaching for the Mets.

Martuni, Armenia

In ancient times it was known as Mets Kznut, but from 1830-1922 it was called Nerkin Gharanlugh and in 1926 it was changed to Martuni in honor of the first Soviet premier of Armenia, Aleksandr Myasnikyan, whose nom de guerre was "Martuni".

Mathematically Alive

In addition to the hundreds of fans interviewed for the film, Coburn and Foronjy also caught up with former Mets players Bud Harrelson, Ron Swoboda, Ed Charles, Tim Teuffel and legendary broadcaster Ralph Kiner.

NTL Player of the Series

2004 - Male: Jason Stanton, Sydney Mets; Female: Amy Fong, Gold Coast Sharks

Sheriff Robinson

In 1964, Robinson was called up to the Mets for the first of three different terms as a Major League coach.

He would spend the next decade as a scout for the Mets, except for the 1972 season, when he was appointed to fill the vacancy on the coaching staff left by Yogi Berra's promotion to manager following the sudden death of Gil Hodges.

Sims Legion Park

Such greats to call Sim Legion Park home : Andy Van Slyke (Cardinals, Pirates), Sammy Sosa (Rangers, White Sox, Cubs, Orioles), Juan González (Rangers, Tigers, Indians, Royals), Iván Rodríguez (Rangers, Marlins, Tigers), and former Major Leaguer Tug McGraw (Mets, Phillies) pitched one game for the Rangers in 1989.

St. Lucie Mets

A number of former St. Lucie Mets player are currently on the New York Mets roster including David Wright, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Lucas Duda, and Rubén Tejada.

Team to Beat

Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins proclaimed the Phillies as the "team to beat" in the National League East during a January interview with the Associated Press, just months after his team's distant second-place finish behind the Mets.

The Liberty Cup

"As well as the Mets' season going up in smoke, Fordham tuition going down like an altar boy, and the Fordham football team with a threat rating of a cute, neon pink, the band now presents an all-star gala halftime salute to more Columbia news."

Tim Harkness

On April 17, 1964, Harkness led off for the Mets in the bottom of the first inning and had a single off of Bob Friend in the third inning to become the first Mets player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium as part of a 4–3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Tim Teufel

The Mets' reputation as a rowdy bunch was punctuated on July 19 when Teufel, Ron Darling, Bob Ojeda, and Rick Aguilera were arrested after a bar fight with off-duty police officers in Houston, Texas.

Tommie Agee

To alleviate this problem, the White Sox imported perennial .300 hitter Tommy Davis, along with pitcher Jack Fisher and two minor leaguers, from the New York Mets for Agee and Al Weis.

Wid Matthews

Matthews resigned as the Mets' director of player personnel during the 1964 season.

Wilbur Huckle

According to journalist Keith Olbermann, photographer Steve Moore recalls that Huckle actually received a callup to the Mets in 1963, on the same day as Cleon Jones, but was optioned out without ever appearing in a game.

By 1967, Wilbur was still in the team's system, becoming the first professional roommate of Tom Seaver, generally thought of as the greatest player in Mets history, during Seaver's first pro season in Jacksonville, Florida.

Williamsport Mets

Among the future major leaguers who played for the Williamsport Mets are: Jerry Koosman, Ken Boswell, Kevin Collins, Nolan Ryan and Jim Bethke.

Willie Randolph

Randolph ended his first season as manager of the 2005 Mets with an 83–79 record, the first time the franchise had finished above .500 since 2001, and 12 games better than the prior season.

In 2004, Randolph was named Mets manager for the 2005 season, despite never having managed before at any level of baseball.


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