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Mets morning news for april 3, 2020 your friday morning dose of new york mets and mlb news, notes, and links. A native of philadelphia and a graduate of vanderbilt university, kepner has also covered the angels for the riverside pressenterprise in california and the mariners for the seattle postintelligencer. Won world series 43 over boston red sox won nl championship series 42 over houston astros. Until interleague play started, the two teams had only met in exhibition games. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. The 1986 new york mets season was the mets 25th season in the national league. A pivotal essay chronicles the lives of a professional athlete and a diehard fan to create a wellargued, deeply felt meditation on the ways in which franchise baseball has come. Montero pitched 8 innings of threehit ball in a 20 win over. All columns may be sorted by clicking the column name. May 31, 1975 this is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Tyler kepner has covered the yankees for the new york times since 2002. New york mets, a team that won yes, its still true the world championship last year and inspired at least eight new books.
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