Baseball in New York City - Yankees-Mets Rivalry (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The New York Yankees New York Mets rivalry is the latest incarnation of the Subway Series, the competition between New York City's Major League Baseball teams, the American League New York Yankees and the National League New York Mets. Until Interleague play started, the two teams had only met in exhibition games. Since the inception of interleague play the teams have met in every season since 1997 and faced off in the 2000 World Series, which the Yankees won in 5 games. With the departure of the New York Giants to San Francisco and the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1958, the Yankees were New York City's only Major League Baseball team until 1962, when the expansion Mets joined the National League. The Mets sought to create a fan base from fans of the departed teams. The Mets hired former Yankee legend Casey Stengel as their first manager. Both teams shared Shea Stadium as their home field when Yankee Stadium was being refit during the 1974 and 1975 seasons. Before the creation of Interleague play, teams from the National League never played teams from the American League in official games except during the World Series. The teams occasionally met in spring training exhibition games and from 1963 to 1983 they played annually in the Mayor's Trophy Game, an in-season exhibition game, where the Yankees posted a record of 1081 over the Mets. Mayor's Trophy Game Results (Yankees lead 1081) The Yankees won the World Series in 1962, the Mets inaugural season, and would not win again until 1977, the same year that future Yankees manager Joe Torre made his managerial debut with the Mets. During that Yankee drought, the Mets won their first World Series in 1969 and made it to the Fall Classic again in 1973 (with former Yankee catcher Yogi Berra ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13110188