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Bookmark or Share- New York Mets team ownership history – Society for American Baseball ...33 Richard Sandomir, “Mets Seeking Banks’ Help With Heavy Debt,” New York Times, October 5, 2012; Brian Costa, “Meet the Mets (Minority Owners): Bob Pittman and Kenneth Lever,” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2012; Mike Ozanian, “Mets Prove Bill Maher and Steve Cohen Are Better Investors Than David Einhorn,” Forbes.com, October 10, 2015; Adam Rubin, “Bill Maher Owns Stake in ...
- Willie Mays Returns to New York - Society for American Baseball ResearchIn the spring of 1967, Charles O. Finley, the maverick owner of the Kansas City Athletics, persuaded his American League fellow owners that the Bay Area was a great place to put an American League club to share the riches that the Giants had been raking in since their move in 1958 from New York City to San Francisco.1 So, at the end of the ...
- Joan Payson - Society for American Baseball ResearchEven as the Mets stormed to a pennant and came within a game of their second world championship in 1973, in the next few years the ebullient Joan Payson faced the dusk of her life. Although reportedly incapacitated for some time, she attended a board meeting and a Mets-Braves exhibition game in Florida on March 20, 1975.
- New York Yankees team ownership history – Society for American Baseball ...Fortunately, the erection of the modest wood-frame stands of the era could be accomplished relatively quickly.13 As a backup Johnson and the new owners had identified a site in the Bronx owned by the Astor estate at 161st Street and Jerome Avenue — a site that two decades later would be purchased by a different set of Yankees owners for a new ...
- Meet the Mets: From Birth to RebirthThe Mets did show improvement in 1966, avoiding 100 losses and last place for the first time. The Mets enjoyed rarefied air indeed, getting within one game of .500 in mid-May and climbing as high as sixth place. They made forays at the rechristened Astros for eighth place as late as August 23 before settling into ninth place for good.
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