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Citi Field. / 40.75694°N 73.84583°W / 40.75694; -73.84583. at Mets–Willets Point. Citi Field is a baseball stadium located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the borough of Queens, New York City, United States. Opening in 2009, Citi Field is the ballpark of Major League Baseball ’s New York Mets. The stadium was built as a ...
Shea Stadium (/ ʃ eɪ / SHAY), formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. [7] Opened in 1964, it was home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1964 to 2008 , as well as the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL) from ...
Also in 1964, the Mets, who played their first two seasons in the old Polo Grounds, the former home of the Giants, moved to the newly constructed Shea Stadium, a 55,300-seat multipurpose facility built in the Flushing neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, adjacent to the site of the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs, named for William Shea ...
Minnesota Kicks(NASL) 1976–1981. Chicago Cardinals(NFL) 1959 (2 games) Metropolitan Stadium(often referred to as "the Met", "Met Stadium", or now "the Old Met" to distinguish from the Metrodome) was an outdoor sports stadium in the north centralUnited States, located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.
Shea Stadium was the Mets' home field from 1964 to 2008. Tom Seaver, three-time Cy Young Award winner, led the Mets to victory in the 1969 World Series. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1992. The 1962 Mets posted a 40–120 record, a major league record for the most losses in a season since 1899. [22]
Yankee Stadium was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball venues to be given the lasting title of stadium. The word stadium deliberately evoked ancient Greece, where a stade was a unit of measure—the length of a footrace; the buildings that housed these footraces were called stadia. Yankee ...
With Shea Stadium packed near capacity on the night of May 13, 1966, Bill Murphy launched his first career major league homer deep into the New York sky. ... The budding, 22-year-old Mets ...
Website. metlifestadium.com. MetLife Stadium is an open-air multi-purpose stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, 5 mi (8 km) west of New York City. It opened in 2010, replacing the Giants Stadium, and serves as the home for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL).