The next 3 are from a 1964 Popular Science article
Shea was a very modern stadium for it's time as evidenced by this angle. I love the vertical bars on the sides of the stadium. Future "modernizations" stripped the old Shea of some of it's charm, IMO.
Probably around 1970
The next 2 are of the field excavation in 2002
An early proposal for the new NYC baseball park; the end result came pretty close to this
Shea went dark during the blackout of 1977, with a game in progress