What year did the New York Mets start?

Answer 1

The club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles. They played in Baltimore from 1901-1902. They then moved to New York City and were known as the New York Highlanders from 1903-1912. The team was officially renamed the New York Yankees in 1913.

Answer 2

In 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants abandoned New York for California, leaving the largest city in the United States without a National League franchise. Two years later, on July 27, 1959, attorney William Shea announced the formation of a third major baseball league, the Continental League. He tried to get several existing clubs to move, including the Philadelphia Phillies, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Cincinnati Reds, but no National League club was interested. One of the CL's five charter members was a team in New York City. Charles Shipman Payson and his wife Joan Whitney Payson, former minority owners of the Giants, as the principal owners, along with George Herbert Walker, Jr. (uncle of future President George H. W. Bush), who served as vice president and treasurer until 1977.[2] Former Giants director M. Donald Grant became chairman of the board. Grant and Joan Payson had been the only members of the Giants board to oppose the team's move west. The existing leagues, who had considerably more autonomy at the time, responded with plans to add four new teams, two in each league. One of the new National League teams was to be in New York. The NL offered this new franchise to the CL's New York group, provided that they commit to building a new park. Shea told New York Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr. that he had to personally cable every National League owner and guarantee that the city would build a new facility. The new team required a new name and many were suggested. Among the finalists were "Bees. "Burros", "Continentals", "Skyscrapers", "Jets", as well as the eventual runner-up, "Skyliners". Although Payson had admitted a preference for "Meadowlarks", the owners ultimately selected "Mets" because it was closely related to the club's already-existing corporate name "New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.", it hearkened back to "Metropolitans", a historically significant name used by an earlier New York team in the American Association from 1880 to 1887, and because its brevity would naturally fit in newspaper headlines. The name was received with broad approval among fans and press. From the first, the Mets sought to appeal to the large contingent of former Giants and Dodgers fans as well as presumably those New Yorkers who disliked the New York Yankees. The Mets' team colors reflect this--orange for the Giants, blue for the Dodgers, although not precisely the same shade of those colors as used by the two former residents.

Answer 3

mets very first game was April 11,1962 vs. Cardinals.

Answer 4

The Mets began play in 1962.

Answer 5

The New York Mets began playing in 1962.

Answer 6

1969 The Amazin Mets