I was lucky enough to see a game there (against the Red Sox, oddly enough, that the Yankees won on a walk-off single). I got to sit in the right-field bleachers with the real fans, and I consider getting to see that place before its demolition second (for now) only to having gotten to see the World Trade Center pre-9/11.
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I have never been a baseball fan-- but I actually saw 2 games there this summer (one being last week) and you feel something come over you when you enter the stadium. I feel for those hard-core baseball/Yankee fans...
Even as someone who is not a Yankee fan, I am sad to see it go. I'll have to say I've had some great memories at the stadium. It's the first place my girlfriend and I ever went together, and I'll never forget that. I got 4 tickets from work and I only knew 1 other person who could go, so I invited her as a friend & another girl from work (she had a bf at the time) and we hit it off. A week later she broke up with her bf and we've been together ever since.
I was able to make it to a few Yankees games this year, and was fortunate enough to make it to the 2nd to last game played there. Having been to the stadium many times before, there was just something about this final weekend. I kind of closed my eyes at one point and listened to the PA system and it makes you feel like you're back in the 20's. When Derek Jeter came to bat in the bottom of the 9th to lead off the inning and the place went nuts, I got chills up my back (as I did several times last night - like when Bernie came out). But it was funny at the game on Saturday it was similar to Sunday where no one wanted to leave...We just sat and took pictures listening to good ol Frank (Hoboken, NJ's Favorite Son) sing "New York, New York".
When we finally left Saturday, there is a part of the wall of the stadium that is chipping apart and kind of crumbling, and fans were taking pieces of the wall, and I actually took a piece and well I can always say I've got my own part of Yankee Stadium...
I was lucky enough to see a game there (against the Red Sox, oddly enough, that the Yankees won on a walk-off single). I got to sit in the right-field bleachers with the real fans, and I consider getting to see that place before its demolition second (for now) only to having gotten to see the World Trade Center pre-9/11.
Was that game this year? When Gardner hit a soft ground ball up the middle that Cora tried to make a diving play on and ended up knocking it into right field? If so, I was there too
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I need to target other stadiums before demolition. While I don't think Fenway is imminent, I still need to get there and to other older ballparks semi-soon. Missed out on Comisky (US Cellular was kinda lame). Wrigley was a dream. Made it to Shea. Hit Fulton County when I was too young to appreciate it.
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I went to Shea on the way over to the Summit; was going to go on the Yankee Tour but no surprise it was all sold out.
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I'm going to the final regular season game at Shea (hopefully it won't be the last). I'll probably go to the opening of Citi Field too...I've been to Yankee as I previously stated, and I went to Wrigley a few years back. I think I am going up to Fenway next season when the Mets play the Sox in interleague play...I very well may NEVER go to the little league field known as Citizen's Bank Park.
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
I went to a Yankee game in 2006 or 2007. I will say that the building itself did not strike me as special. For watching a baseball game, Petco Park in San Diego (my favorite ballpark) is a much nicer place. People have a lot of great memories there though, and I guess there is a lot of emotional attachment to the physical place where those memories were formed.
So long, Yankee Stadium
So long, Yankee Stadium
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