Nov 29, 2016 · 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 ...

Jul 19, 2017 · Since then, Jean Yawkey, Joan Kroc, and Marge Schott have all been in ownership positions. Joan Whitney Payson is a pioneer within this small group, becoming principal owner of the expansion Mets by buying the franchise with her own money. Joan Whitney was born in New York in February 1903 to a family with an impressive lineage. A few examples ...

Jan 8, 2012 · The Mets, who had lost eight of their first 11 pre-season games, “treated their principal owner to a 3-0 victory.”26 Then, after suffering a stroke in mid-June, Joan Whitney Payson died on October 4 at the age of 72, dying just one week after Casey Stengel succumbed to cancer in California. She took her last breath at New York Hospital.

May 19, 2023 · In the spring of 1972, Stoneham entered into secret negotiations with Mets owner Joan Whitney Payson, and chairman of the board M. Donald Grant to trade Mays to the New York team. They were the only club Stoneham contacted because, in a clearly nostalgic move, he felt that Mays should be back where he began his career, had so many wonderful ...

The fledgling team was to be called the New York Mets.1 Principal club owner Joan Payson revealed that the Mets nickname was selected from 644 candidates placed in nomination by New York baseball fans and other participants in the naming process.2 Some news reports on the new club’s moniker also mentioned, in passing, that a late nineteenth ...

Feb 11, 2018 · While Grant was a minority owner of the Mets, Mrs. Payson claimed that her investment was about 85 percent of the team. 8 Grant served as the chairman of the board until he resigned in 1978. Program from the groundbreaking ceremony at Flushing Meadow Park on October 28, 1961.

Aug 17, 2021 · The Mets finished the spring at 14-10, tying them with the 1966 Mets for the best percentage in spring training. The ’66 club, under Wes Westrum, had been the first Mets team not to lose 100 games. As the Mets left for New York on April 7, 1969, no one would have imagined that the team could actually match their .583 spring mark in the ...

May 25, 1979 · Mets owner and president Lorinda de Roulet, Joan Payson’s daughter, accompanied her to the first-aid station. The girl spent one night at the nearby Booth Memorial Medical Center and 10 at Mount Sinai Hospital. 3 The Davidoff family lost a $2.75 million suit against the city and the team’s insurance carrier in the state Court of Appeals in ...

In November 1941, Grant was on a nominating committee whose mission was to determine the slate of governors for the reconstituted Association of Stock Exchange Firms. Among the nominees was George Herbert Walker, Jr., the uncle of George W. Bush and, like Grant, a future minority owner of the New York Mets.

May 9, 1972 · The Mets took on the remainder of Mays’s $165,000 annual salary.6. Giants owner Horace Stoneham dissuaded those who questioned whether there was a financial motive for trading the icon: “Our club is not in bad shape financially. The basis behind all this was Willie’s future after he retires.