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1963 New York Mets: Meet the last team to play at the Polo Grounds

The 1963 New York Mets were not as bad and not as memorable as their 1962 predecessors. They went 51-111, eleven more wins than in 1962, but still finished in tenth place in the ten-team National League.

Trivia question: In what year did the Mets win the second-fewest games in their history?

At the end of the 1963 season, the team exited the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan in the style to which fans were accustomed, by playing terrible baseball with an entertaining flair.

Managed again by the inimitable Casey Stengel, they cycled through 40 mostly mediocre players.