by : Clark Bryant

In the 1950s, it happened so that New York lost both the Giants and the Dodgers and gossips stated that the teams left, in some measure, owing to the information that they wished for a new sports ground. This left New York with just one remaining baseball squad. By the year 1960, National League owners were prepared to reward new baseball franchise teams to New York with one of the necessities being the construction of a new sports ground.
Factual to their speech, on October 28, 1961, the town of New York began construction on a new facility that would hold prospect Major League Baseball games. Initially called Flushing Meadow Park, the facility was afterward named Shea Stadium and is now home to the New York Mets. Its name transformation was suggested by William A. Shea, a legal representative who was instrumental in the hard work to bring National League baseball back to New York. When building was complete, the sports ground had cost $25 million and was prepared to open its doors on April 17, 1964.Opposite a crowd of more than 48,000 viewers, the New York Mets suffered a 4-3 overcome at the hands of the Pirates.
Later, a small number of cosmetic alterations have occurred at Shea Stadium. Latest seats were installed only for the reason that the aging ones wanted replacing nevertheless; otherwise, the facility is much very similar as it appeared on opening day more than four decades back. Technical advancements made it probable for contemporary scoreboards and lavishness suites, together with the New York Mets Magic Top Hat attraction, which is designed to respect homerun hits by one of the New York Mets players. In festivity of every homerun, viewers will see a big red apple go up from the hat.
One more unforgettable moment, which took place in 1996, was observed as Todd Hundley defeated Roy Campanella's 43 year Major League evidence, which privileged the majority homeruns by a catcher in a single season. To this day, deliberations frequently resurface on the subject of renovating the home of the New York Mets. Though rich in history and in attraction, thoughts of replacing Shea Stadium to construct a new home for the New York Mets have been uttered. At the present, nothing has been decided and fans will carry on taking pleasure in the facility that they have come to be acquainted with for more than 40 years.