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Down the stretch of the 2024 season, New York Mets fans not only watched the scoreboard for the division and wild card races, hoping teams would lose, but there were also those who were doing the scoreboard watching hoping a team would win…the Chicago White Sox.
The 1962 inaugural season of the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club would be an effort in futility, a passion of love, and a symbol of baseball romance. That season of the “lovable losers” has been referenced often, and is viewed upon with reverence. How many times can you say that - that a losing team is revered?
New York Mets fans don’t have a lot to hang their hats on throughout their history, aside from Tom Seaver, 1969, and 1986, so why would they want to be stripped of a legacy where they didn’t even have to win to be cheered?
The 2024 White Sox made the 1962 Mets relevant again. And those 1962 Mets lost again…62 years later…as the White Sox set the record for most games lost with 121.
But was it truly the worst season in Major League Baseball history? Let’s take a look.
Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. Alan's family were avid Brooklyn Dodgers fans and when the Dodgers moved west, the Mets became the team to root for. The Mets have always been a true focal point, Alan even wrote a term paper in high school to analyze what was wrong with the Mets. While at the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the, gulp, Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. New York Mets Mania is a forum for Alan to write about his favorite team and for baseball fans to chime in and provide their thoughts and ideas about New York's Amazin' Mets.
