New York Mets team ownership history – Society for American …
2017年1月11日 · 33 Richard Sandomir, “Mets Seeking Banks’ Help With Heavy Debt,” New York Times, October 5, 2012; Brian Costa, “Meet the Mets (Minority Owners): Bob Pittman and Kenneth Lever,” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2012; Mike Ozanian, “Mets Prove Bill Maher and Steve Cohen Are Better Investors Than David Einhorn,” Forbes.com, October 10, 2015; Adam Rubin, “Bill Maher Owns Stake in ...
Joan Whitney Payson: A Pioneer for the New York Mets
2017年7月19日 · When Mrs. Manley sold the Eagles in 1948 there would not be another significant female owner until the 1960s when the National League expanded, creating the Houston Colt .45s and the NY Mets. Since then, Jean Yawkey, Joan Kroc, and Marge Schott have all been in ownership positions.
April 23, 1962: Jay Hook leads Mets to franchise’s first victory
Jay Hook took the mound for the Mets. Among those taking the field that day for the Mets were Gus Bell, Frank Thomas, and Charlie Neal. The Pirates countered with starting pitcher Tom Sturdivant, backed by players such as Dick Groat, Bill Mazeroski, and Roberto Clemente. The Mets were 0-9; the Pirates were 10-0 to begin the 1962 season.
“The Name Is Mets – Just Plain Mets” - Society for American ...
2018年2月11日 · The Mets used their first pick to select Hobie Landrith from the Giants. Landrith was included in a trade with Baltimore on June 7, 1962, that brought Marvelous Marv Throneberry to New York. When the draft was complete, the Mets had selected 22 players for under $1.8 million, which left room for acquiring players such as Frank Thomas from the ...
Willie Mays Returns to New York - Society for American Baseball …
2023年5月19日 · In the spring of 1972, Stoneham entered into secret negotiations with Mets owner Joan Whitney Payson, and chairman of the board M. Donald Grant to trade Mays to the New York team. They were the only club Stoneham contacted because, in a clearly nostalgic move, he felt that Mays should be back where he began his career, had so many wonderful ...
M. Donald Grant - Society for American Baseball Research
June 15, 1977 is a black day in the history of the New York Mets. On that date, in what came to be known as The Midnight Massacre, M. Donald Grant, the team’s chairman of the board, traded away Tom Seaver, a/k/a “The Franchise,” to the Cincinnati Reds for Pat Zachry, Doug Flynn, Dan Norman, and Steve Henderson.
‘It’s Like Coming Back to Paradise’: Willie Mays and the Mets
2022年5月18日 · The 5-4 victory for the home team over the San Francisco Giants was Mays’s first game in a New York Mets uniform. Mets owner Joan Payson and her counterpart in the City by the Bay, Horace Stoneham, concocted the deal to let Mays fill out the rest of his playing days in the city that gave him his major-league start and maintained its adoration ...
1969 Mets: Spring Ahead - Society for American Baseball Research
2021年8月17日 · The Mets finished the spring at 14-10, tying them with the 1966 Mets for the best percentage in spring training. The ’66 club, under Wes Westrum, had been the first Mets team not to lose 100 games. As the Mets left for New York on April 7, 1969, no one would have imagined that the team could actually match their .583 spring mark in the ...
New York Metropolitans team ownership history, 1883-1887
2019年2月5日 · The fledgling team was to be called the New York Mets.1 Principal club owner Joan Payson revealed that the Mets nickname was selected from 644 candidates placed in nomination by New York baseball fans and other participants in the naming process.2 Some news reports on the new club’s moniker also mentioned, in passing, that a late nineteenth ...
Shea Stadium (New York) - Society for American Baseball Research
2008年9月28日 · Still, this was a fun place to watch baseball. It had another extraordinary positive: peaks of intense excitement. The “Amazin’ Mets” of 1969 completed their most improbable run to a World Series championship there. When the Mets won their other World Series title, in 1986, Games Six and Seven at Shea both featured rousing comebacks.