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Mrs. Met (previously referred to as Lady Met) is an official mascot of Major League Baseball's New York Mets. She is the female counterpart to Mr. Met and among the oldest of the MLB's mascots.

Origin and Early Years

Lady Met was introduced by the Mets organization in the mid-1960s,^[1] soon after the Mets’ inaugural season.^[2] She is one of Major League Baseball's oldest mascots.^[3] Like her male counterpart, Lady Met was a human with a large baseball head. Unlike Mr. Met, however, Lady Met had hair. She appeared in print advertisements and pennants in cartoon form, and she also took the form of various toys and trinkets, including small figurines, pins, and cloth dolls.^[4]^[5]^[6] She would sometimes appear with three “little Mets.”^[7]

In the 1970s, the Mets organization started referring to Lady Met as Mrs. Met, and she appeared as a live mascot at home games at Shea Stadium.^[8] Her head at the time was a plaster-of-paris ball that a character actor would wear around the stadium during the singing of the National Anthem and in the 5th and 7th innings.^[8]

Mr. and Mrs. Met were both phased out by the Mets in the 1980s. Mr. Met came back to the team in 1994, but Mrs. Met would remain out of the public eye for some years to come.^[1]

Revival

In the early 2000s Mrs. Met re-appeared in the media with a spot on a commercial for the ESPN news show, SportsCenter.^[9] Mrs. Met was seen in the front passenger seat of a sports utility vehicle as the Met family left a Mets game. While she spoke to Mr. Met (in subtitles), three little Met children sat in the second row.

The Mets organization reportedly revived Mrs. Met very briefly in 2005.^[1] But it wasn’t until 2013 that the team brought Mrs. Met back to Queens in earnest. That year, the Mets were set to host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Citi Field.^[10] A few weeks before the game, the Mets announced that a new Mrs. Met mascot would meet with fans and appear during the All-Star Game festivities.^[11] A senior Mets official reported that Mrs. Met had been “working as an event planner and was ready to return to full-time work now that her children are grown.”^[12] In addition to her on-field appearances, Mrs. Met was to appear for non-game-day events. According to Liz Rhoades, editor of the Queens Chronicle, her first name is Jan.^[13]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite news|last=Buiso|first=Gary|title=Mrs. Met mascot gets new look for relaunch at Citi Field|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_the_tUqJHEohis3WLjyDTLspjI|accessdate=July 9, 2013|newspaper=New York Post|date=July 7, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708080846/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_the_tUqJHEohis3WLjyDTLspjI|archivedate=July 8, 2013|df=mdy-all}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Mets Timeline|url=http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/history/timeline1.jsp|publisher=Mets.com|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}
3. ^{{cite news|last=Granillo|first=Larry|title=Wezen Ball: Your Handy Dandy Mascot Guide|url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=13856|accessdate=July 9, 2013|newspaper=Baseball Prospectus|date=May 10, 2011}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=VINTAGE MR. MET & LADY MET CLOTH DOLLS|url=https://insidetheparkcollectibles.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=3321|publisher=Inside the Park Collectibles|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=VINTAGE NEW YORK METS "LADY MET" LAPEL PIN|url=http://insidetheparkcollectibles.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=5858|publisher=Inside the Park Collectibles|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=1960's Lady and Mr. Met Statues|url=http://keymancollectibles.com/figurines/ladymrmet.htm|publisher=KeyMan Collectibles|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Mr. Met|url=http://www.mascothalloffame.com/virtual/hall/index.html?staff_id=40|publisher=Mascot Hall of Fame|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
8. ^¹{{cite news|last=Lukas|first=Paul|title=Uni Watch Profiles: Lynn Farrell|url=http://www.uni-watch.com/2011/06/14/an-interview-with-a-former-mlb-mascot/|accessdate=July 9, 2013|newspaper=UniWatch|date=June 14, 2011}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Mr. Met ESPN Commercial|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnmOxUkZFE|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}
10. ^{{cite news|last=Blum|first=Ronald|title=MLB announces Mets as 2013 All-Star host|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/content/mlb-announces-mets-2013-all-star-host|accessdate=July 9, 2013|newspaper=The Associated Press|date=May 16, 2012}}
11. ^{{cite news|last=Yakas|first=Ben|title=Photo: Is Mrs. Met The Wife Of Mr. Met, Or His Mother, Or His Drag Persona?|url=http://gothamist.com/2013/06/27/photo_is_mrs_met_mr_mets_wife_mothe.php|accessdate=July 9, 2013|newspaper=Gothamist|date=June 27, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630042015/http://gothamist.com/2013/06/27/photo_is_mrs_met_mr_mets_wife_mothe.php|archivedate=June 30, 2013|df=mdy-all}}
12. ^{{cite news|last=Best|first=Neil|title=Mrs. Met to appear at All-Star Game|url=http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/watchdog-1.812020/mrs-met-to-appear-at-all-star-game-1.5649649|accessdate=July 9, 2013|newspaper=Long Island Newsday|date=July 8, 2013}}
13. ^{{cite news|last1=Rhoades|first1=Liz|title= All the skinny on mascot Mrs. Met|url=http://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/all-the-skinny-on-mascot-mrs-met/article_01e3356f-3d9f-521d-885a-bc668d69f135.html|accessdate=July 9, 2015}}