GOODBYE OLD FRIEND

[Muddy]

Shea is CLOSED for good :'(

My best memories of Shea are from 64 to 70. Bordens milk had a Promo, If you had 10 Bordens Cupons( On the side of the milk container) you got in for 75 Cents!

My Father and his partner sold Bordens Milk so they got all the customers and the Borden's driver to bring in their cupons to the store. On Staurday, if your folks shoped in the store, My dad would give the kid 10 cupons, 75 cents and 2 tokens! You also got a Boars Head Bologna and American Cheese on a hard Kaiser roll. with Guldens Mustard ( Still among my favorite lunches) and a Bottle of YO HOO and all the kids, including me and my cousins ( Once we were finshed with our work) would go to all tha Sat home games. I miss Shea, and I really miss my dad since he passed.

NOT TO MENTION 84 to 86, My favorite Met's Team.Honorable mention to one Bill Buckner :

[Tin]

Bout time.....

[Gone_Phishin]

I still don't understand why they are retiring both NY stadiums in the same year.  Those two storied buildings shouldn't have to share the spotlight, they deserve equal time.  The closing of Yankee stadium has outshadowed Shea this year, and that is nowhere even remotely close to fair.

[Muddy]

The Mets always have to fight for the back page! Meaning the top sports story is always on the back page of the NY Daily News. Steinbrenner used to pull major moves to keep them off when the Mets were doing well and the Yankees were not

Also to be fair: Yankee Stadium was 85 years old and more a part of the history of the game

I was only 6 in 57 but I can tell you from my Fathers and Uncles perspective the closing of Ebbet's Field was far more tramatic than either of these closings

Citi Field the new stadium was designed and looks very mch like my Dad's beloved Ebbets Field

[snapper G]

Ohhhhhh!!!!!!!! Shea stadium! I thought you were talking about

"Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America". Ya, poor Shea  :'(! My best friends a Met's fan.

[Hookemdown.]

Goodbye Shea, you will be deeply missed.  

Bu**ner on the other hand...

[cart7t]

Shea is CLOSED for good :'(

My best memories of Shea are from 64 to 70. Bordens milk had a Promo, If you had 10 Bordens Cupons( On the side of the milk container) you got in for 75 Cents!

So you drink all that milk and they still charged 75 cents to see the Mets back in those days?

1962      40-120      

1963      51-111      

1964      53-109      

1965      50-112      

1967      61-101

I suppose it was quite a thrill when a REAL baseball team like the Giants, Dodgers or Cardinals showed up.  You could watch them play and dream that someday your team might be that good.  

[Muddy]

Actually it was a place where I spent a lot of time with my Father, Uncles cousins and fella from the nighborhood. A place where a kid from Brooklyn could actually smell the grass being cut.

It's where my father taught me how a defense should line up on a pull hitter on a must hit straight away situation, and why.

I t's where I actually got to talk to my favorite player of all times : ST.Louis Cardnial Pitcher BOB GIBSON>

ps we did not have to wait all that long in 5 short years the Mets were the best in Basehall in 1969, beating an excellent Baltimore Oriole Club ,

We lost so many games the first year 140, and that record will never be broken! That was not at Shea, that was in 62, up in the Polo Grounds.

[Fisher of Men]

Muddy,

I really see the sincerety of your post and sense your emotional connection to the place.  Just remember that those memories will not go with Shea.  You'll always have them in your heart forever.  

[guitarkid]

Actually it was a place where I spent a lot of time with my Father, Uncles cousins and fella from the nighborhood. A place where a kid from Brooklyn could actually smell the grass being cut.

It's where my father taught me how a defense should line up on a pull hitter on a must hit straight away situation, and why.

I t's where I actually got to talk to my favorite player of all times : ST.Louis Cardnial Pitcher BOB GIBSON>

ps we did not have to wait all that long in 5 short years the Mets were the best in Basehall in 1969, beating an excellent Baltimore Oriole Club ,

We lost so many games the first year 140, and that record will never be broken! That was not at Shea, that was in 62, up in the Polo Grounds.

I know what you are talking about, Me and my Dad try to attend High School football games. Usually our team gets destroyed but it is just going out there.

             Blue Ridge High School-"Fighting" Tigers

                      -sm