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Giants Stadium finally scrapped the grass in favor of FieldTurf for the 2003 season, a surface that remained in place until the stadium closed. The New York Jets left Shea Stadium and moved to Giants Stadium in 1984 after years of suffering under onerous lease terms imposed at the insistence of baseball's New York Mets. When they moved across ...
Robert Leo Sheppard (October 20, 1910 – July 11, 2010) was the long-time public address announcer for numerous New York area college and professional sports teams, in particular the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (1951–2007), and the New York Giants of the National Football League (1956–2006).
Christy Mathewson and the New York National League Team (1907) Athletics vs. Giants in the World's Championship Baseball Series of 1911 (1911) Breaking into the Big League (1913) The Giants-White Sox Tour (1914) *short actuality; The Universal Boy (1914) Love and Baseball (1914) Matty's Decision (1915) Animated Weekly, No.16 (1916) Animated ...
MetLife Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.It opened in 2010, replacing Giants Stadium, and serves as the home for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL).
Mara was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Tim Mara and Elizabeth "Lizette" Mara (née Barclay). [1] He was of Irish descent. Mara was an alumnus of Loyola School and Fordham University, both Catholic, Jesuit schools in New York City. In 1930, Tim Mara split his ownership interests between Wellington (then 14) and his older brother Jack.
Mara joined the Giants in 1991, serving as general counsel, and later as executive vice president and chief operating officer, until his father's death in 2005, when he assumed the team's presidency. [2] Mara and Steve Tisch were at the forefront of the planning and negotiations for MetLife Stadium, which opened in 2010.
The new stadium is a 50/50 partnership between the Giants and Jets, and while the stadium is owned by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority on paper, the two teams jointly built the stadium using private funds, and administer it jointly through New Meadowlands Stadium Corporation.
After the Giants moved to San Francisco, Mays went on to win another MVP Award in 1965 and also led the Giants to the 1962 World Series, this time losing to the New York Yankees. He ended his career with a return to New York after an early season trade to the New York Mets in 1972, retiring after the team's trip to the 1973 World Series .