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The Shea must go on
Posted 14/04/2008 by The Daily Diary
Last week top US rounders outfit the New York Mets played the first home game of their final season at the club’s iconic Shea Stadium – the team’s home since 1964 and surely one of the few major sporting venues named after a lawyer.
William Shea was a prime mover in bringing top-flight rounders – or ‘baseball’ as Americans call it – back to New York after the city’s two franchises have decamped for greener pastures on the West Coast. So grateful were the humble townsfolk that they named the Mets’ new home after him.
Sadly, Arsenal are unlikely to be seen playing at Boardman Park for a while yet. The campaign begins here!
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Comments
Beg to differ, Mr Holzhauer. To state baseball and rounders are the same is an insult to rounders.
Posted by Anonymous | 16/04/2008
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
1. Baseball and rounders are not at all the same. To state that they are is an insult to baseball.
2. Shea Stadium "iconic"? You must me thinking of the other NY ballpark, Yankee Stadium. Shea was a poorly-designed compromise from the beginning, a failed attempt to combine a baseball park and a (U.S.) football stadium.
3. Baseball had not abandoned NY before Shea brought the Mets into town. The Dodgers and Giants left, but the Yankees stayed put.
Posted by Jim Holzhauer | 15/04/2008