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Joan Whitney Payson (February 5, 1903 – October 4, 1975) was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was also co-founder and majority owner of Major League Baseball 's New York Mets baseball franchise, and was the first woman to own ...
Oct 5, 1975 · Joan Whitney Payson, who devoted her life to civic causes, racing stables and her beloved New York Mets, died yesterday morning at New York Hospital. She was 72 years old.
Apr 27, 1984 · JOAN WHITNEY PAYSON, the ebullient, highly visible owner of the New York Mets until her death in 1975, was the extremely private mistress of a 50-room, fieldstone mansion in Manhasset, L.I., that...
Jan 8, 2012 · Becoming the third woman to own a major-league baseball club, Joan Whitney Payson marked history by heavily investing in the expansion New York Mets of 1962. The club’s first majority stockholder, she was also the first of her gender to purchase such an enterprise with her own funds.
Jul 19, 2017 · Joan Whitney Payson is a pioneer within this small group, becoming principal owner of the expansion Mets by buying the franchise with her own money. Joan Whitney was born in New York in February 1903 to a family with an impressive lineage.
Joan Whitney Payson (February 5, 1903 – October 4, 1975) was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family.
Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975) was a wealthy and influential American socialite who founded the New York Mets and supported many cultural and medical institutions. She was the granddaughter of a former president's secretary and the wife of a Wall Street investor.
