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| 1961 |
In addition to purchasing 100,000 tickets to the new National League's team games, the Rheingold Brewery agrees to pay six million dollars for the radio and television rights to 126 Mets games per year for five years. The largest deal of its kind is approximately double the cost of the franchise and all its first-season players.
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| 2012 |
 R.A. Dickey receives the 21st annual Rotary Club of Denver's Branch Rickey Award, an honor given to just one of the 30 nominees selected from each major league team for their humanitarian service off the field. Before the start of the season, the Mets' 38-year-old knuckleballer climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, helping to raise more than $100,000 to support the Bombay Teen organization in their effort to rescue young women from forced prostitution in India.
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