That nifty Shea Stadium Final Season logo we saw everywhere we looked for six months did the math for us: 1964-2008. The operable portion of that equation expired on September 28, yet we do have a few days left in what is still — technically — Shea Stadium’s final calendar year. Thus, before we chronologically […]
 
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Welcome to the final edition of Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I saw there for myself, namely 402 regular-season and 13 postseason games in total. The Log recorded the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 10/3/04 Su Montreal 13-12 Gl@v!ne 4 […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2004 Mets, Art Howe, Bar Mitzvah, Closing Day, Expos, Flashback Friday, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Moonlight Graham, Shea Stadium, The 7 Train, Todd Zeile Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I saw there for myself, namely 402 regular-season and 13 postseason games in total. The Log recorded the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 9/28/08 Su Florida 17-18 Perez 18 218-184 L […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Ballpark Goodbyes, Closing Day, Flashback Friday, Shea Stadium Two things are wrong with the 75 Greatest Moments at Shea Presented by Nikon ballot. 1) The non-baseball stuff. 2) The baseball stuff. Otherwise, it’s perfect. Only kidding. There’s lots wrong with this vote — or “multimedia platform” as the press release refers to it — to determine the greatest moment at Shea Stadium, starting with the definition of […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 359 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 4/8/08 Tu Philadelphia 16-19 Perez 10 195-164 L 5-2 The […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Flashback Friday, Mets Home Opener, Shea Stadium, Stephen Sondheim Hit or an error? Look to your right. The scoreboard transmits the official ruling. Look to your left. The Sign Man tells you what you’re thinking. Before there were helpful little gadgets any more exotic than a transistor radio, you had two sources of information to enhance your Sheagoing experience. You had the biggest scoreboard in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Karl Ehrhardt, Moment of Silence, Shea Stadium, Sign Man Karl Ehrhardt, 1924-2008. Photo courtesy of Shea Stadium: Images of Baseball, Arcadia Publishing 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Karl Ehrhardt, Moment of Silence, Shea Stadium, Sign Man These two, they’re stuck together whether they want to be or not. Make no mistake: they do not. They were sworn enemies in the last life yet nowadays share psychic space that has become all too real to them. In one sense, they are no longer with us. In another, more significant sense, they have […] Before any of us could have known what the last day of this season would represent for all time, it was just going to be the last day of the season. I like to go to the last day of the season, probably even more than the first day of the season, though I like […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Closing Day, Collapse, Disappointment, Shea Stadium If you can’t find you or anyone like you portrayed in an overblown, cartoonishly acted eight-part series about a time you remember living through, too, relax — it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Except for one month as a telemarketer my junior year in college (we sold memberships to the Hillsborough County Police […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, Flashback Friday, Newsday, Shea Stadium |
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