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1986 Mets: Where are they now?
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Kevin Mitchell: 1986 World Champion Mets Utility Player (1984-1986)
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Ray Knight, 1986 World Series MVP, criticizes Wilpons' tenure as Mets owners on Old Timers' Day
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The strangest deferred-money sports contracts
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A Team Full of Junkies': Why the 'Doc and Darryl' Mets myth must die – New York Daily News
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Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More: If the Mets Had Not Traded Nolan Ryan
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The legends of the 1988 Mets and the heartbreak that started it all
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Kevin Mitchell prepares for a Mets game in 1986 - Amazin' Avenue
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The Embattled Bad Boy of Major League Baseball