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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being the Mets, they naturally acquired the first of their new child wonders almost by accident. Seaver compiled an impressive 10-2 record his sophomore year at the University of Southern California, and signed a $50,000 contract with the Atlanta Braves. Major league officials ruled the contract void, and after that, the Mets, along with the Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians, made offers to Seaver. The league decreed that the contest should be settled by lot, and the scrap of paper drawn out of a hat read "Mets...
...whether the Mets might be interested in the team's pitcher, who had won 20 games, lost only three and averaged 18 strikeouts a game. The Mets were interested in anyone who even sounded that good. Koosman was signed and packed off to the minors in 1965. There his record was not overwhelming. He enjoyed his best season in 1966, winning twelve and losing seven for the Auburn, N.Y., Mets. But his performance in New York was all that mattered...
Koosman's fastball shrieked, and he threw roundhouse curves like a poised veteran. In his first two appearances, he astonished baseball buffs by registering shutouts. He pitched a total of seven shutouts to tie a 63-year-old record for rookies, won 19 games, and posted a 2.08 ERA. He lost out to Cincinnati's rugged Catcher Johnny Bench as Rookie of the Year by a single vote ?the closest balloting ever for the honor...
...automakers are re-entering the small-car market at a difficult time. G.M. President Edward Cole predicted last week that new car sales in the 1970 model year would remain close to 1969's near-record level of some 9,700,000 units, but Detroit's share of that total has been dwindling. Sales of imported autos in the U.S. will exceed 1,000,000 units in the '69 model year, a 70% increase from 1966, and the trend is still running against domestic producers...
...Germany, Europe's strongest economic upsurge has now reached a point at which eight job openings await each temporarily unemployed worker, even though a record 1.4 million foreign workers now labor on production lines. Prices are rising at a 3%-a-year rate. That might seem small to Americans but it is worrisome in a country where memories of the calamitous inflation of the '20s are as bitter as memories of the Depression in the U.S. The rate is likely to rise toward the end of the year, particularly if the general wage increase due in the fall...