Meet the Mets: 1983
The 1983 New York Mets and the season that quietly changed everything.
Being a New York Mets fan in 1983 required a healthy dose of patience — not just as a virtue, but as a survival skill.
By the time the season began, the Mets had finished last place five times in seven years, posting a cumulative record of 434-641 (.403 winning percentage). Attendance had bottomed out at 788,905 in 1979, the lowest full-season total in franchise history, in the years after Tom Seaver was traded to Cincinnati and Jerry Koosman, Jon Matlack, and Jerry Grote were shipped out behind him. On the surface, 1983 looked like more of the same at Shea Stadium.
It was not. It just took most of the season to notice.
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