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New Yorker - "The Sporting Scene
If the Mets Are No Longer Underdogs, Are They Still the Mets?"
"There is no local ordinance that says New York has to be a Yankees town, and in fact it wasn’t always: for the first few decades of big-league baseball, the city’s allegiance lay mostly with the Giants, who were perennial contenders at the start of the twentieth century. The Yankees were the junior team until a brewer’s son, Jacob Ruppert, bought them, in 1915, and they became flush with cash. Then they pilfered a slugger in his mid-twenties from a rival club: Babe Ruth, who’d begun his career with the Boston Red Sox. Ruppert and his co-owner built Yankee Stadium a few years later. It was much larger than other ballparks and, some said, had the sterile feeling of a bank. The Yankees seemed “to be thoroughly imbued with the New York idea that money can buy anything,” a columnist wrote in The Sporting News. And maybe it could, because during the next hundred years the Yankees won twenty-seven championships.
They’d just won their nineteenth when the Mets arrived, on a wave of nostalgia. The Giants had left the city for San Francisco five years earlier. Only one person voted against the move: the stockbroker for Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, who owned a small share in the team and loved Willie Mays. (She was also fond of horse racing and the Impressionists.) When a lawyer named William Shea put together a plan to form a new league to compete with Major League Baseball, he tapped her to own its New York team. She could afford it—she was a Whitney, after all, as in the museum. To head off Shea’s plan, the American League and the National League each agreed to add two new teams, including a National League team in New York City which would be principally owned by Payson. She understood the assignment. The Mets weren’t going to win a World Series right away. They needed to draw former fans of the Giants and of the other team that had left for California, the Brooklyn Dodgers. And they needed to entertain them.
Nothing about the Mets, except possibly their name, the Metropolitans, was particularly subtle. (Payson, for her part, had preferred Meadowlarks.) The team’s insignia was the same orange intertwined “NY” that had been used by the Giants, and the blue was borrowed from the Dodgers. The first roster featured once great players who were recognizable to the spurned fan bases, even if the quality of their play no longer was. To manage the team, Payson called on Casey Stengel, a gifted coach who was an even more gifted gabber. He’d recently been fired from the Yankees for the sin of aging. “I’ll never make the mistake of being seventy again,” he said."
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 8, 2025
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