New York Mets team ownership history – Society for American …
网页2017年1月11日 · As part of the expansion of the National League in 1962 a franchise was given to New York City. From 1962 to the current day, the Metropolitans’ ownership has been fairly stable. Joan Payson and her family maintained control of the club until they sold it team in 1980. Beginning in 1980, the Mets fell under the primary control of Doubleday ...
Joan Whitney Payson: A Pioneer for the New York Mets
网页Since then, Jean Yawkey, Joan Kroc, and Marge Schott have all been in ownership positions. Joan Whitney Payson is a pioneer within this small group, becoming principal owner of the expansion Mets by buying the franchise with her own money. Joan Whitney was born in New York in February 1903 to a family with an impressive lineage.
Joan Payson - Society for American Baseball Research
网页2012年1月8日 · The Mets, who had lost eight of their first 11 pre-season games, “treated their principal owner to a 3-0 victory.”26 Then, after suffering a stroke in mid-June, Joan Whitney Payson died on October 4 at the age of 72, dying just one week after Casey Stengel succumbed to cancer in California. She took her last breath at New York Hospital.
April 23, 1962: Jay Hook leads Mets to franchise’s first victory
网页2015年5月22日 · 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 ...
网页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 …
Willie Mays Returns to New York - Society for American Baseball …
网页2023年5月19日 · Willie Mays Returns to New York. Willie Mays’ skills had diminished by the time the New York Mets traded for him in May 1972. (SABR-Rucker Archive) After almost20 years as a Giant, Willie Mays was traded from San Francisco to the New York Mets in May 1972. It was a shock to the baseball world, since Horace Stoneham, old …
Shea Stadium (New York) - Society for American Baseball Research
网页2008年9月28日 · Bill Shea (1907-1991) was a lawyer. Author Nicholas Pileggi (Wiseguy) summed him up in a 1974 profile for New York magazine: “the most powerful unofficial manipulator of political influence in the state.”. Shea was a tough guy — “a roomful of a man, a big, square-jawed, blue-eyed, brawling New York dead-end kid who made good.”.
M. Donald Grant - Society for American Baseball Research
网页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
网页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 …
Polo Grounds (New York) - Society for American Baseball Research
网页2012年1月8日 · The Polo Grounds, an odd name for an odd stadium, was home to several baseball teams, most notably the New York Giants until the team moved to San Francisco following the 1957 season. Its horseshoe-shaped grandstand and elongated playing area provided for ridiculously short distances down the …