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The team is often referred to as the "Amazin' Mets" (a nickname coined by Casey Stengel, who managed the team from their inaugural season to 1965) or the "Miracle Mets". The 1969 season was the first season of divisional play in Major League Baseball. The Mets were assigned to the newly created National League East.
1969 NL season changes: 1969 expansion: Montreal Expos and San Diego Padres are enfranchised; With the expansion of the NL, the leagues into two divisions each: The NL East consists of the Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals
The 1969 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1969 season.The 66th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
This was the year of the "Miracle" Mets. The team had finished only one game better than last the year before, had never finished better than ninth in their seven-year history, were generally picked for third or fourth in the new six-team National League East Division, and were a 100-to-1 longshot to win the World Series.
July 4 – At the customary half-way point in MLB's first four-division season, the Chicago Cubs (52–28) lead the surprising New York Mets (44–34) by seven games in the National League East; the Atlanta Braves (47–32) lead the Los Angeles Dodgers (45–32) by a game in the NL West; the rampaging Baltimore Orioles (55–24) enjoy a ten ...
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The postseason began on October 4, 1969, two days after the end of the 1969 Major League Baseball season, and concluded on October 16, 1969, with the Mets upsetting the 109-win Orioles in five games in the 1969 World Series, to win their first ever World Series title.
After a second-place finish in 1987, the Mets won the NL East the next year, but lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. The Mets' next playoff appearances were their back-to-back wild card -winning seasons of 1999 and 2000; in the latter year, they won their fourth NL championship, but lost to the cross-town New York Yankees in the ...