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From: [email protected] (Roger Lustig)
Subject: Re: New Home for the Bosox!!!
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (jay rogoff) writes:
>> 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.
Not the first. RFK, olim DC Stadium, was built 2 years earlier.
Nowadays they don't move the seats back for the few exhibition
games; but the 3rd-base/LF lower deck used to move. It was all
metal, which was pretty noisy on Bat Day.
>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.
It's vastly better than it was before they fixed it, though. Back in
the late 70's it was a *dump*.
Roger (don't you*like* jet noise?)