The Mets were founded as an expansion franchise in 1960 and began play in 1962. The club came into existence as a replacement for New York's two previous National League teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, who relocated to California following the 1957 season. As an interesting historical note, there was an earlier baseball club called the New York Metropolitans which played in the short-lived American Association during the 1880s. While the defunct 19th century team is not related to the current incarnation of the Mets, its moniker did serve as the inspiration for the modern day National League franchise. From the beginning, the Mets sought to appeal to the large contingent of former Giants and Dodgers fans. The Mets' team colors reflect this: orange from the Giants, blue from the Dodgers (and even a reference to the Yankees via home pinstripes). Coincidentally, orange and blue are also New York City's official colors. Thus two rival fan-bases with 19th Century origins were largely united in support of the new club.
(Trying to add a little spice to this post.)
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s R
ID: 1823918 Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 11:41
Kansas City Royals
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Guru
ID: 330592710 Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 12:05
St. Louis
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Underdawgs
ID: 591252610 Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 12:06
Texas
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mjd Leader
ID: 501381415 Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 13:13
I did pick the loser of the SF-Marlins game yesterday.
judy - feel free to NOT spice it up...I try and just copy and paste the entire thread into a spreadsheet and use macros to do all the work for me, so any extra stuff in here just creates extra work for me. Thanks.
mjd - my bad!!! I missed you and Uptown Bombers, its fixed now.
Dave R SuperDude
ID: 3010361110 Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 22:25
7/8 Pittsburgh 7/9 San Diego 7/10 Kansas City
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Da Bomb Donor
ID: 487112814 Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 00:16
7/8 Cleveland
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Skidazl
ID: 280401016 Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 01:34
7/8 Detroit
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philflyboy
ID: 266361710 Wed, Jul 08, 2009, 06:31
7/8 Pitt
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