New York Mets Tickets

Though the last seven seasons have been disappointing for players and fans alike, the Mets still have a huge fan base that turns out in droves to watch the team play at Shea Stadium. The 2008 season has been dedicated to Shea Stadium’s forty-five-year history, with the New York Mets players wearing commemorative patches on their jerseys celebrating the stadium’s long-standing history. And besides honoring the stadium, the team is hoping new blood and a better pitching staff may lead the team to another winning seasons. Either way, New York Mets games at Shea Stadium and at other ballparks around the country are sure to be a hot ticket in 2008!

The New York Mets came to be in 1959, when New York attorney William Shea announced the team would be created as one of the first to play for the newly created Continental League. The Mets played their first game in 1961 and had an auspicious first season, setting their first, and probably most embarrassing Major League Baseball record, becoming the first major league team to lose 120. To this day, that record has still not been broken, much to the team’s disappointment. In their first four seasons, the team posted an astonishing 452 defeats.

Luckily for the New York Mets, and their fans, the team managed to turn their performance around and, in the 1966 season, thanks in large part to a well-built pitching staff, the team began winning more than losing. In 1969, the Mets pulled out what many still consider to be their greatest season ever, winning one hundred games. 1973 brought the New York Mets their first National League championship, but they were upset by the Oakland As in the final game of the World Series.

For the next ten years, the Mets delivered less than stellar performances, with no notable winning streaks or records. That all changed when Davey Johnson took over as the team’s manager in 1983. With his draft picks of Darryl Strawberry, Hubie Brooks, Wally Backman, Kevin Mitchell, Dwight Gooden, Ron Darling, Johnson was able to put together a winning team that took the nation by storm. In 1986, the Mets won the division title, beating the Astros and battling the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, where they won the Series title.

The Mets wouldn’t return to post-season play until 1999, when they won the wild card spot for the division playoffs, but in the end, they lost the pennant to the Braves. And, in 2000, the team went all the way to the World Series, making it the first Subway Series in almost forty-five years! However, the defending Yankees managed to take the World Series title home, leaving the Mets defeated once again.

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