Shea Stadium
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 Flushing , New York City
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 45 '23 " N , 73 ° 50' 50" W |
| owner | New York City |
| operator | New York Mets |
| start of building | October 28, 1961 |
| opening | April 17, 1964 |
| demolition | October 14, 2008 - February 18, 2009 |
| surface | Natural grass |
| costs | 28.5 million US dollars |
| architect | Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury |
| capacity | 57,333 seats |
| playing area | Left Field - 338 ft (103 m) Left Center - 371 ft (113 m) Center Field - 410 ft (125 m) Right Center - 371 ft (113 m) Right Field - 338 ft (103 m) |
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The Shea Stadium , actually mostly William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, just a short Shea ( ʃeɪ was called) the ballpark of the New York Mets in the sports complex Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens , New York City . The Mets played their home games there from 1964 to 2008.
history
The stadium opened on April 17, 1964 and held 57,333 spectators. It was named after William Shea , who was largely responsible for the fact that after the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1957 ) and the New York Giants ( 1958 ) to California, the Mets were again a New York team in the National League . Jane Jarvis was the organist at the Mets Games .
In addition to the ball park for the Mets, the Shea was the venue for other sports and hosted musical events such as concerts. On August 15, 1965 , the Beatles' biggest live concert took place in Shea, which was sold out with 55,600 spectators; never before had a band performed in an open stadium or in front of such a large paying audience. Football highlights were the international matches between Brazil and England in 1965 and the game between Argentina and Italy in 1976. Also in 1976, Cosmos New York welcomed the football team from Washington for a home game.
The simultaneous use of the sports facility by four teams was unique in 1975. In that year, the Shea was considered the center of New York sports; With the Mets, Yankees , Jets and Giants , two teams each played their home games in baseball and American football here, because the respective home stadiums were either overhauled or newly built.
In April 2009 the new stadium Citi Field was opened in the immediate vicinity in Flushing Meadows Park . The Shea Stadium had to make way for parking spaces and was demolished. A few days before the demolition, there were two more memorial concerts by Billy Joel with various guest musicians. Paul McCartney concluded his last appearance with the Beatles song Let it be , which closed the gap to the Beatles concert in 1965.
