Shea Stadium was where I went to my first baseball game with my dad when I was six years old. The date was May 13, 2008 and the Mets beat the Nationals 6-3. We lived in Stamford CT at that time and our family moved to Long Island in July of that year. We sat along the first base line and Citi Field construction was almost done. I remember my dad got hot dogs for the two of us and after we got home from the game, I had food poisoning in the middle of the night and I threw up from the hot dog haha. Hasn’t happened to me since with ballpark food.
My first game was at shea it was me my grandfather, mom and dad that went to the game. It was in July of 2008 against the cardinals. My grandfather use to get tickets through his company. It was a great day they ended up winning and it was really cool. Still kind of miss shea it was a dump and me being 5 at the time I could barely walk up the steep upper deck stairs but it was such a fun day really made me fall in love with baseball and the Mets by going to that game.
the proper way to watch this would be from the platform leading up to the 7 train, which gave a perfect view of the mound for people looking for a quick exit without missing the game. God I spent so much time in this place as a kid.
I miss those tacky neon ball players on the outside. Drove past them countless times on the Grand Central Parkway. Great blue behemoth circle, how I miss you.
Went to many Met games from the early 70's to '08...I can remember driving in from North Jersey and getting excited when you could see the stadium from either the Grand Central or the Whitestone...parking was always an adventure...the escalators were so steep and the concourses were dark and narrow...but when you found your section and got your first glimpse of the green grass and that amazing scoreboard it was all worth it. LGM
I saw my first baseball game at Shea Stadium. June 11, 1965, Dodgers vs Mets (Don Drysdale vs Warren Spahn - Dodgers won 2-1 on a 7th inning home run by the pitcher Don Drysdale).
@@MaddMan621Also, Shea was originally a multi-purpose stadium as it was the home to the Jets as well. Since there wasn’t a need for a multi-purpose stadium since the Jets moved in with the Giants in NJ, they didn’t need to make the new stadium as big.
i wish they would knock down citi field and re build shea. Shea always reminded me of the coloseum in rome and our mets the gladiators. been to citi twice tickets prices are not good for the average person at least shea was cheap to get into and was much stunning to look at.
I saw the WWF "Showdown at Shea" in 1980, and with that ticket I picked up a simulcast ticket to Duran-Leonard I for $20 the day before the fight, turned down $150 on the way in for the same ticket.
Can you imagine this was replaced by a parking lot? Barely even a plaque to commemorate the old stadium. At least Citi bucks the general trend towards modern mediocrity by being an excellent replacement!
back here once again to sing with the best fans in the world. my relatives victor and kathy sold the team to the banks. fuck the banks; banks ruined baseball!
That stadium was trash, but the smell of hot dogs and greasy fries were great, the cheap seats felt like a mountain, and when Shea was packed and the Mets won, the cheers multiplied the sound in on itself, and the upper deck would shake to amplify the magic. That stadium made the fans matter, the food was decent, the prices were ok. New Citi field is like a fancy food court where all those choices are just over hyped food for too much money, and as hard as you try you still can’t buy French fries as good as the ones they used to sell at Shea.. the journey to get food here now can be like a multiple inning odyssey, and by the time you find your way back to your seat after getting scammed out of all your money, you missed half the game. I miss Shea, and I won’t be going to citi field.
This dude must be a time traveler because there is no way he had that high quality of a camera in 08. Plus the TV aired one looks like shit compared to this
Comment for grandson of Harold Freeman, The Baseball Bat Violin was patented in 1974, by Harold Freeman, and it was a much better instrument than this one. So, it is disingenuous to state that Donnellan invented this. Grandson Scott can be reached @ 585- 647 - 8078. Patent - patents.google.com/patent/US3853032A/en
