{"product_id":"shea-stadium-remembered-the-mets-the-jets-and-beatlemania-9781493060870","title":"Shea Stadium Remembered: The Mets, the Jets, and Beatlemania","description":"Few remember that Shea Stadium--and indeed the Mets baseball club itself--arose out of a dispute between two oversized egos: New York City official Robert Moses and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. While O'Malley wanted complete control over a new stadium and all of its concessions in Brooklyn, Moses insisted that the stadium be built by the city in Queens and leased to the Dodgers. The impasse led to the Dodgers following the Giants out to the West Coast, where The City of Los Angeles granted O'Malley all of the concessions he had sought in New York. With now no National League team in the New York area, the National League office awarded a new franchise to the city in 1960 on conditional that it fund and build a new stadium, which the Mets (and later the AFL Jets) would lease. The stadium was named in honor of William Shea, the person most responsible for returning National League baseball to New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver its forty-four year existence Shea Stadium witnessed a colorful cavalcade of sporting and entertainment events, all detailed in this lively, skimable tribute to a memorable New York landmark. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's all here: the memorable games; the unforgettable characters such as Tom Seaver, Joe \"Willie\" Namath, and Seinfeld buddy Keith Hernandez; and even the solemn moments such as when Shea was used as a staging area for first responders after 9\/11. By the time of its demolition in 2008, the Mets had played more games at Shea than the Dodgers had ever played at Ebbets Field, and the stadium had hosted seven National League Championship Series, four World Series, three Jets playoff games, and the American Football League Championship game in 1968.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 2007 Matthew Silverman has written \u003ci\u003eMets Essential\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e100 Things Mets Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die \u003c\/i\u003e(hardcover 2008, paperback 2010), \u003ci\u003eShea Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e (with Keith Hernandez), \u003ci\u003eNew York Mets: The Complete Illustrated History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest Mets\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also author of \u003ci\u003eBaseball Miscellany\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGolf Miscellany\u003c\/i\u003e. He has co-authored \u003ci\u003eMets by the Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCubs by the Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRed Sox by the Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e. He blogs regularly at metsilverman.com. \u003cbr\u003e An avid baseball fan growing up in White Plains, New York, Silverman went on to be a newspaper reporter and editor before joining Total Sports Publishing, eventually becoming associate publisher and heading the reference division. He was managing editor for \u003ci\u003eTotal Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTotal Football\u003c\/i\u003e, and was lead editor for \u003ci\u003eBaseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume of 2,000 baseball biographies. The Village Voice wrote, \"It's possible that the last time so much essential information was gathered in one volume was The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.\" \u003cbr\u003e Silverman also served as managing editor for books on the Packers, Cowboys, 49ers, and Steelers, among other teams, plus Total Super Bowl. He later served as managing editor for first editions of \u003ci\u003eThe ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe ESPN Football Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e, along with subsequent editions. He edited all four editions of the Maple Street Press Mets Annual with Greg Spira. He lives in High Falls, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lyons Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50915830595858,"sku":"9781493060870","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0fe8825b-a75c-4deb-839c-d9a6a7da996c.jpg?v=1738830828","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shea-stadium-remembered-the-mets-the-jets-and-beatlemania-9781493060870","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}