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Donald Don Dyer was born on August 15, 1945, in Dayton, Ohio. He was of English, Irish & Dutch dissent. The Name Duffy: Donald got the name Duffy while his mother was listening to an old radio program called "Duffy’s Tavern". Mrs. Dyer was laughing while listening to the program & suddenly fainted. When she awoke, she was in in the hospital's maternity ward asking, “How’s Duffy?”. The nurses began to call him Duffy & it stuck. The Dyer family eventually moved to Phoenix, Arizona where Dyer became a star athlete in baseball, basketball & football where he was the quarterback of the team.  Sun Devils Baseball: Dyer attended Arizona State University , where he was the catcher on the 1965 Sun Devils College Championship teams. There he played along with future Oakland A’s stars Rick Monday, Sal Bando & Reggie Jackson.  Dyer hit .325 with 4 HRs 38 RBIs & 15 stolen bases, making All Conference. He was an outfield there until 1966 when he conver...

  Friday August 13th, 2010:   This year marked the second season of baseball at Citi Field, with the Mets going 79-83 finishing fourth to disappoint their fans once again.   That pitching staff was led by Mike Pelfrey (15-9) followed by Johan Santana & R.A. Dickey who both notched eleven victories with nine losses.  R.A. Dickey the knuckle baller, would lead the club in ERA with 2.84.  Tonight,  Jerry Manuel's third place Mets (57-57) were at .500 as they took on Charlie Manuel's second place Phillies (64-51).  A big Citi Field crowd of 35,440 saw R.A. Dickey (7-5) take on the Phillies Cole Hamels (7-8) one of the most hated visiting players of that era. Mets fans referred to him as Hole Camels. In the top of the 1st inning, Dickey struck out Placido Polanco & Raul Ibanez. In the 2nd he got two-line drive outs, then a grounder to Mike Hessman at first from Shane Victorino to end the inning.  In the 3rd R.A. issued his only walk of the...

Wednesday August 12th, 2015: Terry Collins first place Mets (61-52) were riding high nine games over .500 with 2.5 game lead over the second place Washington Nationals. After a seven-game win streak that put them in first place, New York had dropped a pair to the Rays in Tampa. On the first game of this homestand, they won the opener with the Rockies behind Matt Harvey (eight innings) & Eric O'Flaherty's (one inning) 4-0 five hit combined shut out.  Tonight, they hosted Walt Weiss' fifth place struggling Colorado Rockies (47-65) in the second game of the series. The Mets sent Jacob deGrom to the mound against Jorge De La Rosa in front of 37,175 at Citi Field. deGrom had come off three straight no-decisions where he had given up two runs or less. He had not given up more than two runs in his last six starts. In the top of the 1st inning with one out former Met Jose Reyes reached on an infield single to second base.   Jose Reyes Trivia: At this point in his caree...