data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.104606 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (jay rogoff)
Subject: Re: New Home for the Bosox!!!
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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> I agree, though I'd also be happy with a stadium that looks
> like new Comiskey. The new park was also made for baseball.
> Unlike Three Rivers, the Vet, Riverfront, etc., it's not a
> football park in which they also play baseball.
While we're on the multipurpose subject, let's not forget Shea, which
was designed to accommodate both the Mets & Jets. It was the first
stadium (I think) to have the box seats on rollers so they could be
oriented at right angles for baseball & in parallel for football.
Of course, with the Jets gone to Jersey (and a truly good football
stadium), the Mets are saddled with a multipurpose stadium where,
because it's circular, the seats are almost always too far from the
action. The Mets announcers--Kiner & Murphy in particular--have
always hyped it as "beautiful Shea
Stadium," a tipoff to how unbeautiful it truly is.
Jay