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Robin Ventura hit a pair of record-setting grand slams on this date in 1999. Thankfully, Todd Pratt allowed him to touch home both times.

Happy 70th birthday to Davey Johnson, who leads all Mets managers with 595 wins and a .588 winning percentage. He led the Mets to a World Championship in 1986, a feat that can be better appreciated by looking back at his beginnings as Mets skipper.

In episode two of This Week in Baseball, Dennis Eckerskey is chased by a ghost (literally), the Mets kill Davey Johnson, and Mel Allen goes nuts for Fred Lynn.

The life of a day in New York Mets history.

Robin Ventura's Birthday, Bobby Valentine's 1,000th Win, and more!

Check out the softer, fuzzier 1980's version of Davey Johnson as well as one of the strangest statistical anomalies you'll ever see.

The Mets Hall of Fame only includes four pitchers from all 50 years of the team's existence. There has to be more than four great Mets pitchers in team history, right?

The Mets were embarrassed by the Diamondbacks on the day that Frank Cashen, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and Darryl Strawberry were inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame.

I don't think anyone was particularly happy with the manner in which Willie Randolph was ultimately deposed as manager of the Mets, but it was hardly the first time a franchise's skipper was sent...