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[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Edgy DC wrote: Wow, mlbaseballtalk gets a lead on the most sought after Mets image. On edit: BAM!! What a resource for a database guy!

Gee, again my dreams of a great Met site get dashed, first by Yancy and UMDB, and now this? =;)

Ah well, I will have a place on the web for one of my monkish hobbies of mine, one of these years/decades/whatever =;)

I actually have a few of that particular one floating around. Sadly not at the stage to go back and sort out my collection though, worth a nickel or two I guess...

Steve

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Actually, I did have something started on Angelfire.com that was on one site a "current Mets" site for news, transactions, my thoughts, ect and the other one was going to be what Yancy's site is and what apparntly this Metcollector.com site is, though the latter seems to have just gone online since many features, including registering are "coming soon" ah well...

I did start something though with a "Fans Hall of Fame" and actually had it going a few years (ripped from the Miami of Ohio's Reds Listserv's Hall of Fame which is still going almost ten years now) basically I'd advertize on the AOL Met list, and various newsboards at the time that I was doing this and it was so.

Unfortunalty in 2001 I just didn't have any time/effort to keep things together. They may still be up somewhere though. The news page (which had headshots of all 25 guys on the roster...HEY WAIT A MINUTE!) was last updated early 2000 I believe, so who knows if you can still find it up

Steve

[seawolf17]

Wow... [url=http://www.metscollector.com]metscollector.com[/url] is really impressive, especially to a baseball card junkie like me.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Thank you, mlbtalk!

http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0377

There's now a new number one on the most wanted list, one that I think will be impossible to find:

http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0394

[Guest Edgy DC]

You should link your most-wanted list in the banner at the top.

[seawolf17]

Speaking of fan memories, my posting level reminds me of my favorite UMDB memory:

jmb
February 10, 2005
Back in the Mets initial season my late father told me the Mets had a Jewish player by the name of Cohen. I went to check out their roster to locate a Cohen. I came back and asked him what is first name was. He told me Eliosha, Eliosha Cohen!

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Edgy DC wrote: Wow, mlbaseballtalk gets a lead on the most sought after Mets image. On edit: BAM!! What a resource for a database guy!

Here is the really amazing part. Same season, wasn't Tom Paciorek on the roster for less time that summer than Bowa did who finished with the Mets that year? Well Paciorek ends up in the Topps 1986 set while Bowa, in his what would be the final season in his big league career, gets shut out of any set that year

Ah well

[seawolf17]

Yancy-

When you click on "Opponents and Ballparks," then you click on a team name, it brings you to a weird half-completed "players who played for both teams" page. But when you access the teams from the drop-down menu at the top, it's fine.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

seawolf17 wrote: When you click on "Opponents and Ballparks," then you click on a team name, it brings you to a weird half-completed "players who played for both teams" page. But when you access the teams from the drop-down menu at the top, it's fine.

Fixed! Thanks for pointing it out.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seriously, that Mets Collector page has got give you more than a handful of shots you didn't have, no?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Probably. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, though.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That site definitely is a big help.

I just uploaded mug shots of 15 players from my 25 most wanted:

Mike Kinkade
Dennis Bennett
Tim Burke
John Cangelosi
Mike Maddux
Bill Pecota
Tom O'Malley
Dick Schofield
Harry Chiti
Tom Paciorek
Dean Chance
Desi Relaford
Jon Nunnally
Mardie Cornejo
Ken Henderson

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nice.

Who's the top 25 now?

Gibson is still first, of course.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Added another eleven:

John | Sullivan |
| Bobby | Pfeil |
| Charlie | Williams |
| Luis | Alvarado |
| Gene | Walter |
| Julio | Machado |
| Kelvin | Torve |
| Chris | Donnels |
| Frank | Seminara |
| Terrence | Long |
| Jason | Tyner |

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Out of 765 Mets, only 221 remain. Here they are, in order of hit popularity:

1 Bob Gibson
2 Mauro Gozzo
3 Steve Bieser
4 Allen Watson
5 Alvaro Espinoza
6 Bobby Jones
7 Chuck McElroy
8 Billy Taylor
9 Bruce Bochy
10 Jorge Toca
11 C. J. Nitkowski
12 Cory Lidle
13 Toby Borland
14 Dale Murray
15 Wayne Kirby
16 Jay Kleven
17 Pat Tabler
18 Jim Gosger
19 Ron Herbel
20 Rick White
21 Herm Winningham
22 Mark Guthrie
23 Willie Blair
24 Jim Tatum
25 Rick Wilkins
26 Dick Stuart
27 Jack DiLauro
28 Mac Scarce
29 Donne Wall
30 Brent Mayne
31 Jerry Arrigo
32 Joe Sambito
33 Paul Siebert
34 Brook Fordyce
35 Tom Sturdivant
36 Damon Buford
37 Gary Matthews
38 Doc Medich
39 Chuck Taylor
40 Al Pedrique
41 Dick Tidrow
42 Jim Dwyer
43 Jorge Fabregas
44 McKay Christensen
45 Lee Guetterman
46 Pete Walker
47 Esix Snead
48 Orlando Mercado
49 Gene Woodling
50 Brad Clontz
51 Jack Hamilton
52 Mario Diaz
53 Dwight Bernard
54 Blas Minor
55 Norm Sherry
56 Brent Strom
57 Chris Jones
58 Pete Smith
59 Kane Davis
60 Jack Heidemann
61 Bob McClure
62 George Altman
63 Wes Gardner
64 Ryan McGuire
65 Eric Cammack
66 Darrin Jackson
67 Tony Phillips
68 Butch Metzger
69 Dennis Springer
70 Jerry Martin
71 John Thomson
72 Ricky Otero
73 Terry Bross
74 Joe Ginsberg
75 Phil Mankowski
76 Gary Bennett
77 Brady Clark
78 Yorkis Perez
79 Jaime Cerda
80 David Lamb
81 Ronn Reynolds
82 Tom Edens
83 Dave Telgheder
84 Tony Castillo
85 Jerry May
86 Brett Hinchliffe
87 Ralph Terry
88 John Christensen
89 Pedro Feliciano
90 Bob Johnson
91 Tom Martin
92 Jorge Velandia
93 Chuck Hiller
94 Ike Hampton
95 Edwin Almonte
96 Don Florence
97 Bill Latham
98 Jerry Cram
99 Leon Brown
100 Randy Milligan
101 Brock Pemberton
102 Ross Jones
103 Jason Middlebrook
104 Pat Strange
105 Roger Mason
106 Mike Birkbeck
107 Bart Shirley
108 Doug Linton
109 Kenny Greer
110 Dan Schatzeder
111 Tim Spehr
112 Bob Friend
113 Steve Reed
114 Shane Halter
115 Mike Draper
116 Barry Jones
117 Joe DePastino
118 Jeff Tam
119 Bob Johnson
120 Tito Navarro
121 Ced Landrum
122 Danny Boitano
123 Jonathan Hurst
124 Mark Dewey
125 Jeff Barry
126 Don Schulze
127 Bob Gallagher
128 Dyar Miller
129 Joe Nolan
130 Lou Klimchock
131 Pat Howell
132 Keith Hughes
133 Danny Garcia
134 Mark Little
135 Bob Miller
136 Jeff Gardner
137 Rick Parker
138 Hal Reniff
139 Tyler Walker
140 Mike Bishop
141 Joe Vitko
142 Dave Roberts
143 Sherman Jones
144 Shawn Hare
145 Rick Herrscher
146 Jeremy Griffiths
147 Joe Grzenda
148 Wayne Housie
149 Francisco Estrada
150 John Strohmayer
151 Jason Anderson
152 Mike Glavine
153 Chico Fernandez
154 Kevin Lomon
155 Bill Connors
156 Mickey Weston
157 Ed Bauta
158 Jeff Kaiser
159 Jim Mann
160 Steve Springer
161 Rob Gardner
162 Billy Cowan
163 Mike Fyhrie
164 Kevin Morgan
165 Bob Rauch
166 Tom Filer
167 Ray Daviault
168 Larry Elliot
169 Dan Murray
170 Todd Haney
171 Bill Hepler
172 Doug Saunders
173 Rich Sauveur
174 Joe Moock
175 Juan Castillo
176 Billy Wynne
177 Willard Hunter
178 Barry Manuel
179 Wayne Graham
180 Lou Thornton
181 Sammy Drake
182 Larry Stahl
183 Chuck Estrada
184 Terry McDaniel
185 Jack Lamabe
186 Jim Marshall
187 Don Rose
188 Dave Eilers
189 Manny Hernandez
190 Larry Foss
191 Bill Graham
192 Nick Willhite
193 John DeMerit
194 Carlos Mendoza
195 Joe Hicks
196 Bobby Gene Smith
197 Gary Thurman
198 Ricky Bottalico
199 Herb Moford
200 Darrell Sutherland
201 Bill Short
202 Ted Schrieber
203 Amado Samuel
204 Billy Murphy
205 Prentice Redman
206 Dave Hillman
207 Heath Bell
208 Don Rowe
209 Matt Watson
210 Jose Parra
211 Mike DeJean
212 Craig Brazell
213 Bartolome Fortunato
214 Brian Buchanan
215 Vic Darensbourg
216 Tom Wilson
217 Manny Aybar
218 Brian Daubach
219 Royce Ring
220 Mike DiFelice
221 Danny Graves

[Guest cooby]

Yancy what ever happened with that guy that was coming here (the one with the picture)?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Will you take a blue hat with blue insignia for Toca?