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The New York Mets and the Houston Astros share much history. They both began as expansion teams in 1962. They had perhaps the most dramatic NLCS ever in 1986. They shared some of the greatest pitchers in baseball history: Nolan Ryan, Justin Verlander, and Billy Wagner. What did they not share? The Mets did not star in the underrated "Bad News Bears in Breaking Training" in 1977. Cameos by Cesar Cedeno, Bob Watson, Leon Roberts, Enos Cabell, and J.R. Richard highlighted the fa

This column focuses on impactful trades in Mets history. Well, the first three World Series appearances of the Mets were fortified by three different consequential trades with the Montreal Expos! The Mets most likely do not see 1969 (Donn Clendenon), 1973 (Rusty Staub), and 1986 (Gary Carter) without these dynamic trades. Do not worry, Washington Nationals fans, its not that I'm ignoring the Nats, its just that the most significant trades were made when they were Les Expos.

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly rummage through the Mets’ attic, where we brush the dust off the bubble gum cards, flip through the curling pages of old yearbooks, and rediscover the players who once made you pause mid potato knish and mutter, “Hold on… he was a Met, right?” Last week, we told the story of Randy “Moose” Milligan, a man whose Mets career could fit comfortably on a cocktail napkin but whose fingerprints somehow wound up al