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When a Mets player hits a home run, a giant apple, which has a Mets logo on the front that lights up, rises from its housing in the center field batter's eye. The new apple that was constructed for Citi Field is more than four times the size of the previous one and was designed by Minneapolis -based engineering firm Uni-Systems .
[46] [47] With the Mets playing a game at Shea that evening against the Chicago Cubs, the Yankees used the visitor's locker room and dugout and the Angels used the home dugout and old locker room of the New York Jets. [48] Former Mets star Darryl Strawberry, by then playing for the Yankees, hit a home run during the game. Stadium operators ...
Shea Stadium was the Mets' home from 1964 to 2008. In January 1980, the Payson heirs sold the Mets franchise to the Doubleday publishing company for $21.1 million, a record amount at that time. [25] Nelson Doubleday, Jr. was named chairman of the board while minority shareholder Fred Wilpon took the role of club president.
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, the second most losses by a post-1900 MLB team behind the 2024 Chicago White Sox.
The ballpark then sat largely vacant for nearly three years, until the newly formed Titans of New York (present-day New York Jets) began play in 1960, followed by the newly formed Mets in 1962, using the Polo Grounds as an interim home while Shea Stadium was being built. As a 1962 baseball magazine noted, "The Mets will have to play in the Polo ...
FILE - New York Mets' Pete Alonso heads to first base after a walk in the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of a baseball NL Championship Series, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in ...
The Franchise is finally on display outside Citi Field. A long-awaited statue of pitcher Tom Seaver was unveiled Friday by the New York Mets in a 40-minute ceremony that began about 2 1/2 hours ...
The budding, 22-year-old Mets outfielder had notched his first career home run and base hit on one swing – a clutch two-out, three-run blast off San Francisco southpaw Ray Sadecki in front of a ...