Shea Stadium Remembered: The Mets, the Jets, and Beatlemania
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ISBN-13: | 9781493060870 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/01/2022 |
Pages: | 256 |
Sales rank: | 1,053,263 |
Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.60(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Our Dump vii
1 The Bums' Rush 1
2 Up from the Ashes 4
3 The Name Is Shea 6
4 Ma and Pa Met and Their First Home 9
5 "Twisted and Bent" 14
6 The Architecture of Multipurpose 17
7 Bunting, Bunning, and Banners 20
8 Blink and You'll Miss It: All-Stars Come to Shea 24
9 The World vs. Moses: Fair or Not? 26
10 The Beatles and their Stadium 28
11 Keeping Busy 31
12 Broadway Joe Brings War and Peace to Shea 33
13 Howie Rose's Shea Stadium 37
14 Tom Terrific Lands at Shea 40
15 Super Jets 44
16 Everything on the Ball at Shea in '69 48
17 Last Call for the AFL 55
18 Too Sudden, Too Soon 57
19 Shea Hey Kid 61
20 Believe 63
21 Long Games, Longer Home Runs 70
22 The Bowels and Meows of Shea 74
23 The Yanks Are Coming 76
24 1975: Make It Shea Every Day 79
25 Grant's Tomb 83
26 Shining Light of the Blackout 86
27 Bless This Mess: Hebner to Mettle to Pope 88
28 Sleight of Hand 91
29 Panel Discussion 94
30 Sack It to Me 97
31 Strike One. Strike Two 100
32 The Big Board and the Big Apple 104
33 The Prodigal Seaver Returns 106
34 Mayor's Trophy: New York's Rivalry without Enmity 108
35 "Good Luck in the Swamp": The Jets Exit Shea 111
36 Making a Loser Win 114
37 The Place to Be 118
38 To Make the Dream Work 121
39 Inside Shea: Top to Bottom 126
40 Cards Beat Full House 131
41 Hershiser Fixation 134
42 When Management 86ed the '86ers 138
43 A Change at the Top, a Fall to the Bottom 140
44 What's with All These Planes? 144
45 The Worst Team. Period 146
46 Dumb Struck 149
47 Mr. Met and Shea Names You Shouldn't Forget 152
48 Generation K Goes Down Looking 156
49 Let's Play Two. And Then Let's Not 158
50 Bobby V. Brings New Life to Shea 160
51 Catch as Catch Can: Dishing Up Piazza at Shea 162
52 Food, Not So Glorious Food 164
53 The Walkoff, the Wild Pitch, the Grand Slam, and the Single 166
54 Met Sounds: Pennant Edition 170
55 Subway Shutdown 173
56 More Than a Game 176
57 Wilpon v. Doubleday 178
58 Shea's Last Last-Place Finish 181
59 The New Mets 183
60 The New Shea 185
61 The Team, Almost the Time 187
62 End of Shea's Days 190
63 Requiem 194
Appendix 199
Shea vs. Citi 199
Shea Stadium Ail-Time Records 200
Teams That Called Shea Home 202
The Last Days at Shea-Dana Brand 207
Acknowledgments 210
Bibliography 211
Index 215