Mets of New York

The Mets of New York ( New York Mets in English) are a frankness from Baseball of the major Ligue of baseball located in the Queens at New York.

Prize list

Championship of world Series (World Series): 1969, 1986.
Champion of the National league : 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000.
Titles of division : 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006
Better second : 1999, 2000

History

In 1957, the town of New York loses two of its three franknesses from National league, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, trnaférées respectively with Los Angeles and San Francisco. In question, the absence of solution to offer new stages to these two teams which evolved/moved then in installations unworthy of their row, but also the gold bridges proposed by the Californian ones to attract these franknesses, including/understanding modern installations. As of this moment, William Shea, a New Yorkean lawyer, is elected by the mayor of New York to assemble a project intended to bring back a frankness from National league in her city. After having tried to repurchase the Reds of Cincinnati, the Phillies of Philadelphia and the Pirate of Pittsburgh, Shea decided to create its own league, the Continental one, intended to compete with the two existing major Leagues, the Main road and the American one. Vis-a-vis this project threatening their hegemony, the two major Leagues finally decided to accept an expansion of four teams to the existing championships, two for the American League (Angels of California and Senators of Washington) and two for the National league. New York was ensured of one of these two last places, and the frankness from the New York Mets was created in 1962, playing its first match on April 11th. The project of continental League was logically abandoned.

The name of Mets (abbreviation of " Metropolitans") was selected in memory of a famous club of New Yorkean baseball of the years 1880, Metropolitan Baseball Club off New York. Activate of 1880 to 1887, this team was called the " Mets".

The first years of the new frankness were rather catastrophic from a sporting point of view. Established since 1964 with the Shea Stadium, in the Queens, the Mets were characterized especially by many and spectacular defeats at the time of their seasons of training of baseball to the more high level. The first dramatic turn of events of the history of the Mets was however not made wait very a long time, since their first victory in world Series hardly took place 7 years after the creation of the club, in 1969. It is of this time that date the famous expression " Amazing Mets" (" Fabulous Mets") who wanted to underline the incredible exploit of this young team. Seventeen years later, in 1986, the world title very returned second once in the Queens at the end of a world Series of high-quality. Since then, the Mets joined the soft belly of the National league, before remaking surface since 2000. The transfers and the dynamic policy of the current leaders led the frankness to gain the title in its division this year (2006), but the club finally lost its semi-final vis-a-vis Cardinals of Saint-Louis at the time of the seventh match, depriving its supporters of a place finally of World Series, twenty years after the last title.

Current manpower

List of wounded (at July 15th, 2007) the

Jorge Sosa, launcher
Juan Padilla, launcher
Duaner Sánchez, launcher
Braces Alou, external field
Endy Chávez, external field
Carlos Gómez, external field

Mets with the Hall off Famed

Only Tom Seaver, launcher of 1967-1977 then in 1983, was introduced with the Hall off Famed as Mets.

Other players members of the Hall off Famed having briefly evolved/moved at the Mets:

Richie Ashburn, external field, 1962
Yogi Berra, receiver, 1965, manager, 1972-1975
Gary Casing, receiver, 1985-1989
Willie Mays, external field, 1972-1973
Eddie Murray, first baseman, 1992-1993
Nolan Ryan, launcher, 1966,1968-1971
Duke Snider, external field, 1963
Warren Spahn, launcher, 1965
Casey Stengel, manager, 1962-1965

Withdrawn numbers

14. Gil Hodges, 1B 1962-63, manager 1968-71
37. Casey Stengel, manager 1962-65
41. Tom Seaver, P 1966-77, 1983
42. Jackie Robinson withdrawn by MLB

Affiliations in minor leagues

AAA: New Orleans Zephyrs, Pacific Coast League
AA: Binghamton Mets, Eastern League
Advanced a: St Lucie Mets, Florida State League
a: Savannah Sand Gnats, South Atlantic League
Shorts a: Brooklyn Cyclones, New York-PEN League
Rookie: Kingsport Mets, Appalachian League
Rookie: GCL Mets, GULF Coast League
Rookie: VSL Mets Tronconero (B), Venezuelan Summer League
Rookie: Santo Domingo Mets, Dominican Summer League

External bonds

official site of the New York Mets
the New York Mets on '' Baseball-Reference.com ''
players of the Mets of yesterday and today

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