A daughter of Joan Whitney Payson, the team’s exuberant first owner, she took over as chairwoman in 1978 during a lackluster time for the franchise.
Lorinda de Roulet at Shea Stadium in Queens in 1978. “It never occurred to me that I’d wind up running the team,” she said. United Press International
Lorinda de Roulet, who briefly ran the New York Mets in the late 1970s after the death of her mother, Joan Whitney Payson, the team’s first owner, and before the team was sold to the book publisher Doubleday & Company and the real estate developer Fred Wilpon, died on Oct.