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| 1972 |
After twenty-one seasons with the Giants, 41-year-old Willie Mays, playing first base and batting leadoff, dramatically returns to New York in his debut with the Mets. In the fifth inning, the Say Hey Kid hits a home run off Don Carrithers, his 647th career round-tripper, breaking a 4-4 deadlock and helping to defeat his former team, 5-4, at Shea Stadium.
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| 2006 |
On Mother's Day, with his mom in the stands, Bill Hall hits a walk-off home run to beat the Mets at Miller Park, 6-5. The Milwaukee center fielder, joining many other major league players, uses a pink bat in MLB's effort to raise public awareness of breast cancer.
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| 2007 | Warner Brothers releases American Pastime, a fictional movie detailing the importance of baseball to the Japanese Americans placed in internment camps in the western States during the early 1940s. The setting of the dramatic major motion picture is the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah encampment that housed thousands during the Second World War. |
| 2009 | The Mets collect a franchise-record seven stolen bases in their 7-4 victory over the Giants at AT&T Park. Ironically, the team sets the club mark without the help of a sidelined Jose Reyes, New York's all-time career leader in thefts. |
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