{"id":4128,"date":"2013-07-07T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2014-06-30T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T01:00:02","slug":"ballpark-tour-shea-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/ballpark-tour-shea-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Shea Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SheaBoard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3713\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SheaBoard.jpg\" alt=\"SheaBoard\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SheaBoard.jpg 640w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SheaBoard-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong> Shea Stadium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> New York<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home Team:<\/strong> Mets, Yankees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong> 1964 &#8211; 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p>After a delay caused by labor woes and an exceptionally harsh winter, Shea Stadium, home of the expansion New York Mets, opened on April 17, 1964, with the <a title=\"Pittsburgh Pirates\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pittsburgh_Pirates\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> beating the Mets 4\u20133 before a crowd of 50,312. It continued to be the home of the Mets until September 28, 2008, when the Mets lost to the Florida Marlins. Along the way, the stadium was also the home of the Yankees for 2 seasons while Yankee Stadium was being renovated and, for the 1975 season, it served as the home of both New York MLB teams and both New York NFL teams, the first time a stadium has had that many main major tenants at one time.<\/p>\n<p>My one trip to Shea Stadium was for opening day in 2003 to see the Chicago Cub take on the NYMet. \u00a0The last day of March was Tom Glavine&#8217;s first appearance with the Mets after coming over from the Braves via free agency. \u00a0His grace period with the Mets faithful did not last long, as he was booed after throwing a ball on the second pitch. \u00a0The baseball gods were not on the Mets side that day, as the Cubs, behind 2 Corey Patterson home runs, routed the Mets 15-2. \u00a0I remember the stadium itself being pretty decent, though we did have some of the best seats in the house, which may have tainted my impression somewhat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stadium Name: Shea Stadium Location: New York Home Team: Mets, Yankees Years in Service: 1964 &#8211; 2008 Visits: 1 After a delay caused by labor woes and an exceptionally harsh winter, Shea Stadium, home of the expansion New York Mets, opened on April 17, 1964, with the Pittsburgh Pirates beating the Mets 4\u20133 before a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[125,903,120,114,261,112,612,2934,51],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-braves","tag-corey-patterson","tag-cubs","tag-marlins","tag-mets","tag-pirates","tag-shea-stadium","tag-tom-glavine","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}