[Oldtix]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

In 2012 we are celebrating 150 years of Mets baseball. According to this T-shirt, officially licensed by Major League Baseball and sold by the official online shop of the New York Mets...

...the Mets were "Established 1862."

http://metsonline.com/apparently-the.../#.TzsDhlxBw-A

I had thought they were established much earlier...there's that song written in 1814 that begins "Oh Shea can you see..."