I’m a big fan of Mark Simon’s work at ESPN New York…here’s the set-up for an interesting article worth a read.
With both the Giants and Dodgers in town this week, it struck me that it would be interesting to learn about the process by which fans of those two teams in the 1950s became Mets fans.
My father was 11 when the Giants left for San Francisco after the 1957 season and he tried to stay loyal, but he gradually felt the pull of the Mets. The trade of Willie Mays in 1972 solidified it in his mind: “It was something that happened to me without even really thinking about it, it just kind of happened over a period of time and one day I was a Mets fan,” he said the other day.
Agree with the final person interviewed in the article about the Mets over the years, for the most part, forgetting about their Giants heritage. Which is why (whether it was for marketing or not) I embrace the black. However, I believe that the Mets should never wear black when playing the Giants and should never wear blue when playing the Dodgers. Fandom runs deep, but so does hate for their actions following 1957.