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Ted Robinson, let’s have lunch
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On the 15th day of Christmas, the Mets gave to me …
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The Gooden billboard!
I knew someone had to have a shot of it. That someone is a guy by the name of Matt Weber, and the photo was posted on a blog called peripherybaseball. Many thanks. This brings back a lot of memories.