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	Staten Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Borough of Staten Island is coterminous with Richmond County, the southernmost county in the state of New York.
		The Village of New Brighton in the town of Castleton was incorporated in 1866, and in 1872 the Village of New Brighton annexed all the remainder of the Town of Castleton and became coterminous with the town.
		Daniel D. Tompkins, was the sixth Vice President of the United States, an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and established Tompkinsville in Staten Island and the Staten Island Ferry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Staten_Island,_New_York (5908 words)

	Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey is believed to be the site of the first organized baseball game, giving Hoboken, rather than Cooperstown, New York, a strong claim to be the birthplace of baseball.
		In 1845, Alexander Cartwright's Knickerbocker Club of New York City began using Elysian Fields in Hoboken to play baseball due to the lack of suitable grounds across the Hudson River in Manhattan.
		In 1865, the grounds hosted a championship match between the Mutual Club of New York and the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn that was attended by an estimated 20,000 fans and captured in the Currier and Ives lithograph "The American National Game of Base Ball".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elysian_Fields,_Hoboken,_New_Jersey (334 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Metropolitan
		Metropolitan, in ecclesiastical language, refers to whatever relates to the metropolis, the principal city, or see, of an ecclesiastical province; thus we speak of a metropolitan church, a metropolitan chapter, a metropolitan official, etc. The word metropolitan, used without any qualificative, means the bishop of the metropolitan see, now usually styled archbishop.
		The entire body of rights and duties which canon law attributes to the metropolitan, or archbishop as such, i.e., not for his own diocese, but for those suffragan to him and forming his ecclesiastical province, is called the metropoliticum.
		On this principle the nullity of Napoleon's marriage was decided by the diocesan and the metropolitan officials of Paris, 1810 (Schnitzer, "Kathol.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10244c.htm (631 words)

	Wikinfo \| New York Mets
		Logo design: Intertwined 'N' and 'Y' in orange, on blue field, (the NY logo is identical to that of the New York Giants, the blue field chosen because that was the color of the caps worn by the Brooklyn Dodgers).
		When a new team was proposed for New York after the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers left for California, a number of names were proposed.
		The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc (nicknamed "Mets" almost from the start, as had been the earlier Metropolitans) began their existence posting a 40-120 record, the worst record for any team in the 20th century.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=New_York_Mets (595 words)

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		New York City would receive one of the National League teams with Joan Whitney Payson and her husband Charles Shipman Payson, former minority owners of the Giants, as the principal owners.
		Beloved by New York fans despite their losing ways — or even because of them — the Mets of the early 1960s became famous for their ineptitude.
		Construction of the new stadium is expected to be paid by the Mets, while "infrastructure improvement" costs at the site are to be paid by the city.
	www.newyorkmetshistory.info (3667 words)

	THE COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Since the Washington Presidents will be adding one new player to its roster in November and since the team needs a power-hitting outfielder, club officials have decided to conduct a home run derby pitting the two top contenders, Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush, against each other.
		New York's arrogant mayor, Rudy Giuliani, claimed this year's World Series will "give New York an opportunity to be even more arrogant." Since the mayor is a Yankee fan perhaps this provides fans in the provinces a reason to root for the Mets.
		Jim Mutrie, former manager of the New York Metropolitans in the American Association became the first baseball field manager to manage "world series" teams in two different leagues when he managed the New York Giants in the 1888 Series.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /1000news.html (2428 words)

	New York Mets News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		NEW YORK -- There is a history of the New York Mets that you can't get from any media guide.
		He began his career as a ticket clerk in a basement office of a New York City hotel and has been with the club ever since, moving up through the ranks and becoming an integral part of life at Shea Stadium.
		He, like most of New York, had watched as the Mets transformed from a ragtag bunch of lovable losers into World Champions.
	newyork.mets.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/nym/news/nym_news_story.jsp?article_id=nym_20020128_mandt_news&team_id=nym (1195 words)

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		Originally named the Gothams, the team was established after John B. Day, manufacturer and owner of the New York Metropolitans of the American Association, purchased the expelled Troy club of the National League.
		Among the group of new talent was pitcher Christy Mathewson, who was only in the early stages of his career.
		It was another all New York World Series that saw the Yankees defeat the Giants in five games for the championship.
	www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/baseballgiants_history.html (1892 words)

	New York City tours: New York Trivia
		The New York Post was established by Alexander Hamilton in 1803 and is the oldest running newspaper in the USA.
		New York’s first private telephone was installed at 89 Fifth Ave in 1877.
		The Panorama of the City of New York in the Queens Museum of Art is the world’s largest architectural model, containing 895,000 individual structures at a scale of 1” equals 100’.
	www.beyondtimessquare.com /ny-trivia.htm (775 words)

	New York Metropolitans of the American Association
		In 1882, the American Association was formed as a rival to the National League.
		It placed teams in many large cities, but not in the nation's largest, New York.
		The following year, the Metropolitans, which had formed in 1880 as an independent team, joined the league.
	mysite.verizon.net /brak2.0/mets1.htm (169 words)

	ArmchairGM - Polo Grounds - Sports Wiki, Sports Blog, and Sports Resource
		It was converted to a baseball stadium when leased by the New York Metropolitans in 1880.
		The stadium was used jointly by the Giants and Metropolitans from 1883 until 1885, and the name stuck for each subsequent stadium of the Giants.
		The New York Yankees sublet the Polo Grounds from the Giants during 1913-1922 after their lease on Hilltop Park expired.
	www.armchairgm.com /mwiki/index.php?title=Polo_Grounds (1740 words)

	New York Giants (1883-1957)
		The New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs finished the regular season with identical 98-55-1 records and needed to play a decisive makeup game to determine the National League Championship.
		It was an all-New York World Series for the third straight year, but there were a few changes.
		In their final season in New York the Giants would finish in 6th place with a 69-85 record.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nl/nygiantsb/nygiants.html (4887 words)

	New York Giants \| BaseballLibrary.com
		A New York team under the ownership of factory owner John B. Day and local sports figure Jim Mutrie replaced the Troy, NY team in the NL in 1883.
		In 1919, the Giants were purchased by a syndicate headed by New York stockbroker Charles Stoneham, the beginning of a powerful baseball family.
		September 21, 1957: Gail Harris is the last player to hit a HR as a New York Giant, as they beat the Pirates 9-5 in the 2nd game of a doubleheader.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/N/New_York_Giants.stm (2033 words)

	Jay's Giants Blog: Mets' New Ballpark
		The New York Mets franchise is connected to the Giants and Dodgers in several ways.
		Two of the most prominent are the team colors and their nickname, which harkens back to the New York Metropolitans of the 1880s.
		The new franchise was the Giants (they picked up their nickname in 1885).
	jay.typepad.com /william_jay/2006/04/mets_new_ballpa.html (230 words)

	New York Mets \| BaseballLibrary.com
		The Mets began as a franchise in the Continental League proposed by Branch Rickey.
		When the major leagues absorbed this potential rival, as they had so many others, by selling ML franchise rights to some of its sounder backers, the gap that had been left in New York City by the departure of the Dodgers and Giants after 1957 was filled by the expansion Mets.
		But the fans, referred to as the "New Breed," were in the mold of the old Brooklyn Dodger fans, taking their team to heart as much for its faults as for its virtues, and in their enthusiasm introduced banners at the ballpark.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/N/New_York_Mets.stm (2025 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 2003, when the championship pennant of the New York-Penn League was to be hoisted on their flagpole on opening night, they were back home on the Upper West Side walking to shul.
		The New York Times gives more space to team tennis and soccer in the Eastern Hemisphere, although the Cyclones are drawing more than 7,000 and the S.I. Yanks often draw more than 5,000.
		The Yanks’ home, Richmond County Bank Ballpark, just yards from the ferry terminal, was built on the old St. George Cricket Grounds, home for the original New York Metropolitans who called Staten Island their major league home in 1886 and ’87.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=9674 (1291 words)

	Staten Island on the Web: History
		The New York Metropolitans' stadium at St. George, Staten Island.
		The Metropolitans were brought to Staten Island courtesy of Erastus Wiman, president of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Co., so that more people would use his ferries and railroads to get to the games.
		The Metropolitan's grandstand was in the parking lot that is near the Richmond County Savings Bank Ballpark, the home of the Staten Island Yankees.
	www.nypl.org /branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=962&template=New_York_Metropolitans (535 words)

	Carl's New York Mets Web Page
		The New York Metropolitans Baseball team was born in 1962.
		Both New York National League teams moved to the west coast in 1958.
		The shape of the insignia, with its orange stitching, represents a baseball, and the bridge in the foreground symbolizes that the Mets, in bringing back the National League to New York, represent all five boroughs.
	www.carlabraham.com /NewYorkMets.htm (861 words)

	Pride of New York quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"This is a quiz on the history of New York baseball.
		His professional career took him across three decades and a multiple of World Series records with the New York Yankees.
		After the Dodgers and Giants left New York after the 1957 season, this former Giants owner sought to bring National League baseball back to New York.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=168936 (496 words)

	World Series
		Due to the Boston team's dominance, and the unstable player situations of this new venture, William Hulbert of the Chicago franchise created a new league with other new owners that would not be as player-controlled.
		The Metropolitans pursued their challenge through the newspaper The New York Clipper, who may have been the first to name a match-up as the "World Series" (although some claim they called it the "United States Championship").
		Each of the four seasons, the Baltimore franchise (later to join the American League, then move to New York and become the Yankees) was a participant, winning 3 of the four series.
	www.goerie.com /baseball1/world_series.html (906 words)

	Crisis In The Cathedral
		Some frustrated church members in New York and elsewhere are also starting to withhold their individual contributions.
		The metropolitans arrived at the Istanbul Hilton hoping they would return to America with a resolution.
		Since he's not going anywhere soon, the metropolitans seemed to be saying, we might as well make the best of things.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/religion/features/973/index4.html (709 words)

	mets
		We all know that they played their first game in 1962, four years after the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers left New York for California.
		The only consolation was that the other New York team was not much better.
		The bad part was that after 1996 the other New York team was on the rise.
	www.geocities.com /roosevelt126/mets.html (396 words)

	New York Mets
		The Metropolitans have been to the World Series three times (1969, 1973, 1986) and have won twice (69 & 86).
		Also, as all Met fans know, when a Met hits a home run in Shea Stadium, a big giant Apple out in left-center field (I think) goes up and down...this is, of course, because of New York's nickname, "The Big Apple" (duh).
		Shea was home to both Daryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden once...and who knows how far New York would have gone had those two kept themselves out of trouble.
	members.tripod.com /TheMLG/NewYorkMets.html (383 words)

	Party Pictures 5/20/04 - Fundación Amistad and Harry A. Abrams hosted a booksigning for Cuban Elegance
		Jose Rodriguez, President of the Jackson Metropolitans and Rolando Rodriguez, President of the Jackson Memorial Foundation presented Luca Orlandi with an award of recognition, followed by a live auction with Belkys Nerey auctioning off a leather and shearling Luca Luca coat for $7,000.
		All proceeds from “Fashion Fete” went to benefit The Jackson Metropolitans Learning Center at Holtz Children’s Hospital, Jackson’s famed center for Children, is a computer learning center for the hospitalized children.
		The Center is equipped with both desktop and laptop computers so that Jackson’s pediatric patients can download homework from the Internet, email with their family and friends and even videoconference with other hospitalized children around the country through the Starbright World Network.
	www.newyorksocialdiary.com /partypictures/2004/05_20_04/partypictures05_20_04.php (780 words)

	Long Island History: First Black Team a Big Hit
		It was on the Argyle grounds where that team, originally called the Athletics of Babylon, so dominated local white teams that a white New Jersey promoter bankrolled them as the ``Cuban Giants'' and sent them on the road to become the Harlem Globetrotters of their time and their sport.
		The Argyle was the last of these hotels, funded by a syndicate headed by LIRR president Austin Corbin and built on the former estate of Brooklyn railroad magnate Electus B. Litchfield.
		In 1888, the fl Indianapolis Freeman newspaper reported, ``The Cuban Giants, that famous base ball club, have defeated the New Yorks, four games out of five, and are now virtually champions of the world.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs612a,0,6633407.story (787 words)

	Baseball History: 19th Century Baseball: The Players VIII: Charley "Old Hoss" Radbourn (Continued) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The very next day, Radbourn three hits the Metropolitans and wins 3–1 in a game called after seven innings due to darkness.
		On October 25, 1884 the Providence Grays defeat the New York Metropolitans, 11–2, in the final game of the series.
		During a Boston/New York team photograph in 1886, he became the first public figure to be photographed extending his middle digit to the camera.
	www.19cbaseball.com /players8.html (345 words)

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