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After the 1957 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated from New York to California to become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, leaving the largest city in the United States with no National League franchise and only one major league team, the New York Yankees of the American League (AL). New York Mets Personalized Name And Number Baseball Jersey Shirt. With the threat of a New York team joining a new third league, the National League expanded by adding the New York Mets following a proposal from William Shea. In a symbolic reference to New York’s earlier National League teams, the new team took as its primary colors the blue of the Dodgers and the orange of the Giants, both of which are colors also featured on the Flag of New York City. The nickname “Mets” was adopted: it was a natural shorthand to the club’s corporate name.
“The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.”,[11] it hearkened back to the “Metropolitans” (a New York team in the American Association from 1880 to 1887),[1] and its brevity was advantageous for newspaper headlines
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