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Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc.
 PROFILE
Metropolitan clubs usually have a different dress code than this one. Better known as the New York Mets, the team entered the majors as part of the 1962 expansion and lost a record 120 games its first season. But the underdog Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series in 1969, gaining the nickname "the Miracle Mets." The Mets won the National League pennant in 2000 (their first since 1986, when they also won the World Series) only to lose to the New York Yankees in the "Subway Series." Heirs of original owner Joan Payson sold the Mets to publisher Doubleday & Co. in 1980, but after German media concern Bertelsmann bought Doubleday in 1986, Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon became owners of the team.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: September
2000 Sales (mil.): 162.00
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 29.0%
Employees: 200
Revenue per employee: $810,000.00

 KEY PEOPLE
• Fred Wilpon
    CEO
• Harry O'Shaughnessy
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
Shea Stadium
Flushing, NY 11368
US
Phone: 718-507-6387
Fax: 718-507-6395
Online: Web Site

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