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The New York Mets are a Major League Baseball team based in Flushing, in the New York City Borough of Queens. They play in the Eastern Division of the National League. Along with the New York Yankees, the Mets are one of two major league franchises in the City of New York. In their 45 year history, The New York Mets have the honor of winning two World Series Championships, the first in 1969, the second in 1986.
The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants abandoned New York for California in 1957. It resulted the the largest city in the United States without a National League franchise. The formation of a third major baseball league, the Continental League was announced by attorney William Shea two years later. Four new expansion franchises were created — two in each league in exchange for abandoning the new league. New York City received one of the National League teams with Joan Whitney Payson and her husband Charles Shipman Payson as the principal owners, along with George Herbert Walker.
A new name was required for the new team. The suggested names were "Bees", "Burros", "Continentals", "Skyscrapers", "Jets", as well as the eventual runner-up, "Skyliners". The owners ultimately selected "Metropolitan Baseball Club of New York," or "Mets" because it was closely related to the club's already-existing corporate name "New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.". Fans and press also approved the name.
The Mets earned the reputation of lovable losers in their early period history from 1962 to 1968.The Mets began their on-field play in 1962. They lost their first nine games en route to a 40-120 record. Their .250 winning percentage was the third worst by any major league team since the beginning of the 20th Century. Throughout major league history only the 1899 Cleveland Spiders (20-134) lost more games in a single season than the 1962 Mets. The Mets of the early 1960s became famous for their ineptitude. The Mets' image as lovable losers was wearing a little thin as the decade progressed.
In the late 60’s, things began to change slowly. The Mets were successful in acquiring top pitching prospect Tom Seaver in a lottery and he became the league's Rookie of the Year in 1967, despite the team finishing last again. Tom Seaver was a sign of good fortune to come even though the Mets remained in last place.
The Mets had mediocre start during 1969 season. By mid-August, the favored Chicago Cubs seemed safely on their way to winning the pennant in the newly-formed National League East Division while the Mets held third place. They were ten games behind. The Cubs led the Mets by 9 1/2 games. But Chicago went 8-17 in September, while the Mets, piled up victory after victory, winning 38 of their last 49 games and finishing in first place with a 100-62 record for the season. It was their first winning year ever. The Mets finished with a team ERA of 2.99, and a league leading 28 shutouts thrown. Tom Seaver’s persformance was superb. He led the way with a 25-7 record. Keeping in view of the not stop victorices of the Mets, Press started calling them the "Amazin' Mets" or "Miracle Mets". They went on to win a three-game sweep of the strong Atlanta Braves, led by legend Henry "Hank" Aaron, in the very first National League Championship Series. The Mets were still considered underdogs in this series despite the fact that they had a better record than the Braves.
As the 1970s began, the Miracle Mets magic wore off. In later years, Mets received lackluster support from the hitters with mediocre finishes the result. Prior to the 1972 season,the team was thrown into confusion and shock, when Manager Gil Hodges suffered a sudden heart attack at the end of spring training and died. He was the key player who had led the team to the World Series victory in 1969.
The Payson heirs sold the Mets franchise to the Doubleday publishing company for $21.1 million in January, 1980. Nelson Doubleday Jr. was the new chairman of the board while minority shareholder Fred Wilpon took the role of club president. To begin the process of rebuilding the Mets, Frank Cashen was hired as general manager.
The Mets acquired all-star catcher Gary Carter from the Montreal Expos in 1985 and won 98 games. But they lost the division title to the St. Louis Cardinals in the final days of the season in a memorable series.
The Mets 2006 division title ended the Atlanta Braves' streak of 14 straight division titles. Besides Atlanta, they became the first team to win the National League East title since the 1994 division realignment. 2006 was also the first time ever that the Mets and Yankees each won their respective divisions in the same year. Both New York teams also had the best records in their respective leagues, 97 wins and 65 losses.
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