• Jerry Koosman, who would go on to star on the New York Mets' 1969 "Miracle Mets" team. Greenville was represented in the WCL from 1963–1972, taking its...
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  • An affiliate of the New York Mets from 1983 to 2004, the team played in Columbia, South Carolina as the Columbia Mets (1983-92) and then as the Capital...
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    Nolan Ryan (category Greenville Mets players)
    New York Mets selected Ryan in the 12th round, with the 295th overall pick, of the 1965 Major League Baseball draft. Ryan signed with the Mets and immediately...
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  • Mississippi Greenville Mets, Greenville, South Carolina Little Falls Mets, Little Falls, New York Marion Mets, Marion, Virginia Meridian Mets, Meridian...
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    Jerry Koosman (category Greenville Mets players)
    York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies between 1967 and 1985. Koosman is best known as a member of the Miracle Mets team...
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  • Syracuse Mets Binghamton Rumble Ponies Brooklyn Cyclones St. Lucie Mets/ FCL Mets New York Mets The New York Mets farm system consists of seven Minor League...
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    Greenville is a city and the county seat of Butler County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,374. Greenville is known as...
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  • Rick Smoliak (category Greenville Mets players)
    1977 and from 1963 to 1965, he played minor league baseball in the New York Mets organization. A catcher, he hit .155 in 52 games. He attended the University...
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  • The Greenville Braves were an American minor league baseball franchise, based in Greenville, South Carolina, that served as the Class AA farm team of...
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    Mike Martin (baseball coach) (category Greenville Mets players)
    college career was over, Martin played professional baseball in the New York Mets and Detroit Tigers minor league organizations for three seasons before beginning...
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  • Joe Campbell (baseball) (category Greenville Mets players)
    1966 season with the Class-A Greenville Mets, however, he also spent time with the Double-A Williamsport Mets. With Greenville, Campbell .279 with 114 hits...
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    Duffy Dyer (category Greenville Mets players)
    He was drafted by the Mets in the 1966 Major League Baseball draft and backed up Jerry Grote as a member of the 1969 Miracle Mets team that went on to...
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    Leroy Stanton (category Greenville Mets players)
    the Mets with Francisco Estrada, Don Rose, and Nolan Ryan to the California Angels for Jim Fregosi, considered to be one of the worst trades the Mets have...
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    Bob Heise (category Greenville Mets players)
    amateur free agent with the New York Mets. Heise was a Western Carolinas League All-Star with the Greenville Mets in 1966. The 20 year old earned a September...
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  • Curtis Brown (outfielder) (category Greenville Mets players)
    (82 kg). Signed as an amateur free agent by the New York Mets in 1965, he spent seven seasons in the Mets' farm system before being traded to Montreal in December...
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  • Greenville University is a private university in Greenville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church. Established as Greenville College...
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    Jerry Johnson (baseball) (category Greenville Mets players)
    1963, and the Mets began experimenting with him on the mound. He made eleven pitching appearances for the California League's Salinas Mets that season,...
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    Ed Figueroa (category Greenville Mets players)
    the New York Mets as a seventeen-year-old amateur free agent in 1966. He went 12–5 with a 2.05 earned run average with the Winter Haven Mets in 1967, and...
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    Don Shaw (baseball) (category Greenville Mets players)
    selected by the Mets in the 35th round in the 1965 Major League Baseball draft. After two seasons in New York's farm system, Shaw made the 1967 Mets' roster out...
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  • Dennis Musgraves (category Greenville Mets players)
    signed with the Mets in June 1964 and received a signing bonus of $100,000 (equivalent to $982,000 in 2023), the largest bonus the Mets had ever paid up...
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  • Park. Greenville was represented in the WCL from 1963–1972, taking its nicknames from its various parent organizations. When the New York Mets vacated...
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  • York Mets system from 1965 to 1969, where he managed the Marion Mets (1965), Greenville Mets (1966), Winter Haven Mets (1967), Raleigh-Durham Mets (1968)...
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  • Dick Rusteck (category Greenville Mets players)
    in 1965 en route to the New York Mets. All three contained a large measure of success. He began the year at Greenville, SC with a 2.14 earned run average...
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  • Barry Raziano (category Greenville Mets players)
    of Major League Baseball. Raziano was originally drafted by the New York Mets in the 47th round of the 1965 draft and was traded to Kansas City for Jerry...
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    Stephen Nogosek (category Florida Complex League Mets players)
    Mets in exchange for Addison Reed. He was assigned to the St. Lucie Mets and finished the year there. In 69 relief innings pitched between Greenville...
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  • The 1965 New York Mets season was the fourth regular season for the Mets. They went 50–112 and finished tenth and last in the National League. They were...
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  • Columbia Fireflies (category New York Mets minor league affiliates)
    the Shelby (NC) Mets relocated to the capital city in the latest version of the South Atlantic League in 1983. Known as the Columbia Mets from 1983-92,...
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  • The North Greenville Trailblazers are the athletic teams representing North Greenville University, located in Tigerville, South Carolina, in intercollegiate...
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  • Billy Wynne (baseball) (category Greenville Mets players)
    by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent before the 1965 season. He made his major league debut at the age of 24 with the Mets on August 6, 1967...
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  • The 1966 New York Mets season was the fifth regular season for the Mets. They went 66–95 and finished ninth in the National League. They were managed...
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