New York Metropolitans

The New York Metropolitans are a club of founded Baseball in 1880 with New York and which puts an end to its activities in 1887. It is the name of this club which inspired the name of the frankness MLB from the New York Mets.

Metropolitans are founded in 1880 like an independent professional team by the contractor John B. Day and the manager Jim Mutrie. The Mets play initially Brooklyn and with Hoboken (New Jersey) then found an agreement to use the ground of Polo located at the north of Central Park: the future Sports shirt Ground.

In 1882, the two great leagues, National league and American Association first version, propose in Metropolitans to join them and after having to refuse several times this type of offers, the Mets answer… the two offers favorably! To honor their agreements, Day and Mutrie register Metropolitans in American Association and assemble one second formation, the New York Gothams, which they register as a National league. The two formations divide obviously the Sports shirt Ground which is then equipped with two grounds disctincts.

The Mets gain the championship of American Association in 1884 and are inclined vis-a-vis the Providence Grays, champions of the National league, in World' S Championship Series (3 victories with zero). The best players of the Mets are then Tim Keefe, Dave Orr, Chief Roseman, Jack Lynch, Candy Nelson and Dude Esterbrook.

Financially, Gothams prove more profitable than the Mets and Mutrie decides in 1885 to transfer to it its stars like Keefe and Esterbrook. Sportivement, them from now on New York Giants finished second of their league while the Mets plunged to the seventh rank of their.

The Mets were then sold in 1886 with Erastus Wiman which moved the team with Staten Island. Finances did not improve, and the frankness closed in 1887. She in fact was repurchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers which benefitted from it definitively to draw aside one of its many local competitors.

External bonds

Statidtiques of the New York Metropolitans on '' baseball-reference.com ''
The New York Metropolitans Hall off Records
Public New York Library
Staten Island Museum

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