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Monday Mets: Seaver
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Monday Mets: Seaver

Shai Kushnerby Shai KushnerSeptember 7, 2020September 8, 2020

Following Tom Seaver’s passing last week, publications all over the country were declaring him the greatest Mets player of all time. My sister asked me …

Monday Mets: A Series Of Firsts
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Monday Mets: A Series Of Firsts

Shai Kushnerby Shai KushnerApril 1, 2019

There’s only so much to be gleaned from the first three games of a baseball season. Every year there are players who have looked like …

Knowing What We’ve Got Before It’s Gone
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Knowing What We’ve Got Before It’s Gone

Shai Kushnerby Shai KushnerSeptember 17, 2018September 18, 2018

I never appropriately appreciated David Wright during his career. When he first came up, I was enamored with what I thought he could be, then …

Monday Mets: June’s Historic Swoon
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Monday Mets: June’s Historic Swoon

Shai Kushnerby Shai KushnerJuly 2, 2018

After a lackluster May, the Mets headed into June hoping to turn things around. It didn’t quite work out that way. The Mets went 5-21 …

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Gotham Baseball LIVE: Ray Negron and “Yankee Miracles”

Mark Healeyby Mark HealeySeptember 6, 2012

For Ray Negron, a chance “meeting” with George Steinbrenner changed the course of his life. In his new book, “Yankee Miracles”, Negron recalls how the encounter, “saved my life.” In return, he’s now trying to help others believe that anything is possible.

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Toast of the Town

Joe McDonaldby Joe McDonaldAugust 30, 2009September 1, 20095

In 1985, a very talented Mets team – some would argue the most talented Mets team ever – fell short in its season-long battle    for …

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