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Baseball's all-time 'train-wreck' seasons

By David Schoenfield
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 3, 2009

There have been worse teams than the 2009 New York Mets -- just look a couple of hundred miles south to a team in their own division. But as Jayson Stark writes, it's hard to find a more disastrous season than what the Mets have suffered. We call it a "train wreck." Baseball history, of course, often repeats itself. Just ask Yogi Berra. So, Mets fans, take solace in the fact that you have company. Here are some teams that suffered similar fates -- expectations were high, but catastrophe ensued ...

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