NY Mets Tickets - History And Ticket Buying Tips

New York (NY) Mets, officially known as The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc., have their home at the Shea Stadium since it opened on April 17, 1964. NY Mets tickets for the home games at the Stadium are always very difficult to buy, what with the fans of the Met always clamoring for the tickets for the home games. NY Mets tickets are always sold out much in advance of the scheduled dates of the games, and you need to be alert to grab them as soon as they are made available.

If you have missed out on the opportunity to procure your NY Mets tickets from the Stadium directly, for the home games or for the away games, you may have a number of options to lay your hands on them. Some of them are through risky sources, and you have one sure shot guaranteed way of procuring your NY Mets tickets, well in time.

The risky sources for your NY Mets tickets are the many re-sale forums, the auction sites like the eBay, and the scalpers found around the Stadium and the other venues where the Mets are playing. There is every chance that people selling NY Mets tickets through these sources palm off fake tickets, leaving you wiser, but poorer in the pocket. Your only guaranteed source of procuring your NY Mets tickets, other than from the Shea Stadium directly, are the many licensed ticket brokers of New York.

Most ticket brokers in New York are licensed and members of the National Association of Ticket Brokers. They work under a specific code of conduct, and you have a chance for being redressed if you face any problem. You just need to contact any of these licensed brokers, such as Reedstickets.com, put forth your requirements, and they will ensure that your NY Mets tickets are delivered to you, much before the day of the game.

The Team And The Stadium

The NY Mets came into being after the third league – the Continental League – was abandoned by its establishers, which included William A. Shea, an attorney. The Mets were one of the four franchises created for the two established Leagues – the National and the American. The New York Mets, officially known as The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc., became a part of the National League on March 6, 1961.

Though the NY Mets first started playing at the Polo Grounds, it was decided to build a new home for the team – to be called the Flushing Meadows Park. $28.5 million and 29 months later the Park was ready, but only to be named in honor of William A. Shea for having brought back the National League Baseball to New York – after the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York Giants left New York to set base in California in 1957.

The New York Mets played their first game at the Shea Stadium on April 17, 1964, and lost 4-3 to the Pirates.

On September 24, 1969, they won their first National League East Championship in with a 6-0 victory over the Cardinals at Shea.

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