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| 1961 | The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc. announces the New York National League franchise's team nickname will be the Mets. Other names considered included the Avengers, Burros (a play on the word boroughs), Continentals, Islanders, Jets, Rebels, Skyliners, and Meadowlarks, the first choice of owner Joan Payson. |
| 1973 | On a rainy night at Shea Stadium, the seventh-inning line drive off the bat of Atlanta's Marty Perez strikes Jon Matlack's forehead so hard that the ball ricochets into the Mets dugout. Fortunately, the 23-year-old southpaw sustains only a hairline fracture of his skull and will return to the mound on May 19 to blank the Bucs for six innings at Pittsburgh. |
| 1997 | Twenty-year-old Ryan Jaroncyk, the Mets' hard-working first-round draft pick in 1995, retires from baseball, citing he finds the game boring. The healthy, introspective athletic graduate of Orange Glen High School (Escondido, CA), who the team had hoped to be their future shortstop, leaves the franchise after receiving an $850,000 signing bonus, which the club will not ask their former player to return. |
| 2011 | In all American League contests today, one team in each of the seven games scores exactly five runs. The last time such a statistical happenstance occurred was on August 10, 1993, when seven NL teams scored exactly two runs in each of the scheduled games. |
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