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The New York Mets

The New York Mets are a Major League Baseball team based in Flushing in the New York City borough of Queens.

The Mets play in the East Division of the National League. They are one of two major league franchises in the City of New York, the other being the New York Yankees. The Mets have won two World Series Championships in their 46-year history, the first in 1969 and the second in 1986.

Although Payson (former minority owners of the Giants, as the principal owners, along with George Herbert Walker, Jr.) had admitted a preference for "Meadowlarks," the owners ultimately selected "Mets" because it was closely related to the club's already-existing corporate name "New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.", it hearkened back to "Metropolitans", a historically significant name used by an earlier New York team in the American Association from 1880 to 1887, and because its brevity would naturally fit in newspaper headlines. The name was received with broad approval among fans and press.