New York Mets Tickets : The Mets Have Played In Three Additional World Series

The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division.

One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962. From 1964 to 2008, the Mets' home ballpark was Shea Stadium. In 2009, they moved into a new stadium, Citi Field.The Mets won the 1969 World Series. Since, they have played in three additional World Series, including a second dramatic win in 1986.

In 2007, the Mets entered the final 17 games in the season with a 7.5 game lead in the division. The Mets fell down in the standings throughout those games and needed to win their final two games of the season. The Mets won easily that Saturday, but on Sunday, Tom Glavine gave up seven runs in the first inning.

The Mets managed only one run that day and were eliminated. This is widely considered one of the worst collapses in baseball history. (The 1964 Phillies blew a 6.5 game lead with only 12 games left, going 2-10 as opposed to the Mets' 5-12 record in their final 17 games.)

The Mets held a more modest 3.5 game lead after 145 games of the 2008 season, their final season at Shea Stadium. While their 7-10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5-12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again. The Mets opened Citi Field in 2009, but were not a factor due to a rash of injuries. The Mets did not fare any better in 2010, finishing with a losing record and missing the playoffs for the fourth straight year. The Mets finished with a 79-83 record, coming in fourth place in the National League East.

Upon the conclusion of the 2010 season, the Mets front office fired General Manager Omar Minaya and Manager Jerry Manuel. Former Oakland G.M. and MLB executive Sandy Alderson was hired to run the team. Anderson hired Terry Collins to replace Manuel as manager.The Wilpons are currently facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit on behalf of the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme victims. As a result of this, and to deal with other financial issues, the Wilpons have agreed to sell a minority share of the team to David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager and longtime Mets fan.

The Mets' colors are blue, orange, black and white. Blue and orange were originally chosen to honor the city's history of National League baseball; blue for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and orange for the New York Giants. Blue and orange are also the colors of New York City, as seen on its flag.The cap logo is identical to the logo used by the New York Giants in their final years, and is on a blue cap reminiscent of the caps worn by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn; next is the Woolworth Building; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building; at the far right is the United Nations Building. The bridge in the center symbolizes that the Mets, by bringing National League baseball back to New York, represent all five boroughs.

With the introduction of black as an official color, an alternate team logo was created. It is identical to the original logo, but the skyline is black instead of blue and the "Mets" script is blue trimmed in orange and white instead of orange trimmed in white.