The Mets unveil the franchise’s new logo selected from over 500 entries submitted in the expansion team’s $1000 design contest. Sports cartoonist Ray Gatto’s winning entry, which displays a skyline representing all five boroughs with various iconic symbols, is a blue and orange, the team colors of the Dodgers and Giants, the clubs which left the Big Apple and moved to the West Coast, leaving New York without a National League representative.

 

 

On November 1, 1961 — The Mets unveil the franchise’s new logo selected from over 500 entries submitted in the expansion team’s $1000 design contest. Sports cartoonist Ray Gatto’s winning entry, which displays a skyline representing all five boroughs with various iconic symbols, is a blue and orange, the team colors of the Dodgers and Giants, the clubs which left the Big Apple and moved to the West Coast, leaving New York without a National League representative.

 

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