Happy Birthday, Mets

[MFS62]

On this date (October 16) in 1960 - The NL votes to admit Houston and New York to the league, the first structural change since 1900.

You can add your birthday wishes here.

Later

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Happy birthday, Mets.

I'd wish my team a happy birthday, but they weren't born until the 'Dome was built.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

What Annie, you don't reconige the fine history of the Colt '45s?

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[Guest KC]

I was going to post the same thing - I think of them as the same team.

[Guest cooby]

Today would have been my aunt's 88th birthday. Love to her and the Mets.

[seawolf17]

Happy Birthday Mets, Cooby's late aunt, and Kevin McReynolds, still my favorite Met ever.

[Valadius]

Happy 45th Metsies!!!

[G-Fafif]

Not to throw cold water on the birthday cake, but aren't we celebrating the conception of the Mets rather than the birth? Whether life begins at conception is an issue best debated in another forum.

Either way, happy milestone anniversary Metsies.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

G-Fafif wrote: Not to throw cold water on the birthday cake, but aren't we celebrating the conception of the Mets rather than the birth? Whether life begins at conception is an issue best debated in another forum. Either way, happy milestone anniversary Metsies.

HAHAHAHA! LMAROTF

If ya want to be TECHNICAL about it, Conception probably was when Branch Rickey and company formally announced the formation of the "Contintental League" which the franchise that would be the Mets (not sure off hand if the Payson family or Bill Shea were attached at this point though) was a prominent part of.

So this was probably the start of the gestation period if ya want to be technical about these things!

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Steve

[G-Fafif]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: If ya want to be TECHNICAL about it, Conception probably was when Branch Rickey and company formally announced the formation of the "Contintental League"

I'm thinkin' that was the seduction process, Branch getting the National League drunk on antitrust threats.

[Guest sharpie]

Maybe the short 6 month gestation period explains the '62 season.