The New York Mets have been in Major League Baseball for 50 years. When they were founded, the city of New York had just one team, the New York Yankees. The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants both migrated west for nicer weather and a fresh fanbase in 1957.
The New York area desperately missed National League baseball. Enter William A. Shea, a prominent lawyer and founder of the Continental League.This was a third professional baseball league that rivaled MLB. At word of this, MLB sought to expand and included teams from that league like the now Los Angeles Angels and the now Houston Astros. He fought long and hard to bring National League baseball back to New York. He was finally successful in 1962.
The first home was the old Polo Grounds from 1962 to 1964. It was a stadium located in lower Manhattan that housed the New York Giants baseball team until their departure five years earlier. This was just to pass the time until a more permanent home could be arranged.
The Mets were finally able to build that new home and named it after the man that brought baseball back to New York. They called it William A. Shea Stadium
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