The Mets played their first two seasons (1962-63) in the Polo Grounds. Is there any recognition of that old building and its connection to the New York Giants?
Like the Polo Grounds in its dying days, the 42,500 seats at Citi Field are green. The foul poles, which have already been installed, are orange, representing not only one of the Mets’ colors, but the colors of the New York Giants, who wore black and orange (and still do in San Francisco). When the Mets expanded into the National League in 1962, they chose Giants orange and Dodgers blue as their colors.
