1960s Timeline

May 20, 1962 - Casey Stengel and his Mets rose today to their finest hour. For the second time in eight days, they crushed the Braves in...

May 17, 1962 - The New York Mets, who have yet to celebrate their first anniversary as a National League baseball club, will hold their...

May 9, 1962 - Marv Throneberry, a first baseman, was purchased today by the New York Mets from the Baltimore Orioles. Though the...

Apr. 28, 1962 - Five home runs helped Casey Stengel’s Mets down the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-6, today at the Polo Grounds. Manager Gene...

Apr. 23, 1962 - In thrashing the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-1, today, the Mets not only ended their record-tying nine-game losing streak but...

Apr. 22, 1962 - The New York Mets lost again today, defeated by the undefeated Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3. “Well, we played a hard nine...

Apr. 21, 1962 - Curt Simmons, picked up by St. Louis for almost nothing two years ago, pitched the unbeaten Cardinals to their seventh...

Apr. 20, 1962 - At the insistence of Manager Casey Stengel, the New York Mets practiced baseball fundamentals in New York today before...

Apr. 13, 1962 - The first home game of the New York Mets at the Polo Grounds, where the rain, mud and Pittsburgh Pirates detracted from...

Apr. 13, 1962 - What was supposed to be an entirely happy debut for the New York Mets today ended in defeat at the Polo Grounds. The...

Apr. 12, 1962 - New York City had its first ticker-tape parade up lower Broadway today in which the honored guests stood up and threw...

Apr. 11, 1962 - History was made tonight by the New York Mets. They broke into the expanded National League at long last, but wound up on...

Mar. 10, 1962 - The Mets, playing their first major league exhibition game today, lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-0, and they did not...

Mar. 7, 1962 - The radio premiere of the New York Mets will broadcast Saturday over WABC in New York. The new baseball team’s first...

Feb. 21, 1962 - A member of the American Rocket Society lectured briefly today to the New York Mets on propulsion, life on other planets,...

Feb. 20, 1962 - At 9:30 a.m., when the New York Mets’ second day of spring training was set to begin in St. Petersburg, Fla., most of the...

Feb. 17, 1962 - Casey Stengel made his public debut as an author today. The 71-year-old manager of the New York Mets autographed copies...

Feb. 16, 1962 - Pitcher Clem Labine (pictured left with Jackie Robinson during the 1956 World Series) became the fifth former Brooklyn...

Feb. 7, 1962 - The New York Mets have acquired such former Brooklyn Dodger favorites as Gil Hodges, Charlie Neal, Billy Loes, and Roger...

Dec. 16, 1961 - The return of National League baseball to New York moved a little closer today when the Mets announced their 1961 home...