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  • Tony Bennett makes the rounds in Astoria and Westbury

    ...around. You've said you wanted to keep working on becoming the best singer you've ever been. After hearing you sing at Shea Stadium last year with Billy Joel , it seems to be working out. That's my dream. I'm 83 now, and between music and painting, I still... |more

  • Beyonce, Paul McCartney in Thanksgiving specials

    ...highlights from his July concert at Citi Field in New York City. The stadium in Queens is next to the former site of Shea Stadium , where he and his fellow Beatles rocked at the height of Beatlemania. Footage from that 1965 concert also will air during the... |more

  • You could look it up: Forty years ago, Weis was a hero

    ...run prediction far less famous but much more ambitious than Babe Ruth's Called Shot. Dan Weis, 6 years old, was riding to Shea Stadium with his mom and Jerry Grote's wife when, out of the blue, he said, "My dad is going to hit a home run for my birthday."... |more

  • Misch shuts out Marlins as Mets win 4-0

    ...Colorado - the shutout was the Mets' first since Johan Santana did it exactly one year ago to the day against the Marlins at Shea Stadium . And there's this: Manuel had planned to pull Misch from the rotation before choosing to stick with him for the series... |more

  • Wagner takes responsibility for tough 8th inning

    ...in New York.What Wagner saw was a deja view. Looking at some of the same faces who used to interview him after tough endings at Shea Stadium , Wagner said, "Seems like old times."All that was missing was for someone to drop an easy pop with two outs in the... |more

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  • Jets feel new digs will facilitate winning ways

    ...was on Hofstra’s Long Island campus. They spent their early years as guests in baseball stadiums, first the Polo Grounds and then Shea Stadium, before moving their home games two bridges away from headquarters and becoming tenants of the New York Giants at... |more

  • Chiefs flashback| Game 10, Nov. 16, 1969: Chiefs 34, Jets 16

    ...of the American Football League, took their show on the road with a dominating 34-16 win over the New York Jets. The Shea Stadium turnout of 63,849 watched Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson and wide receiver Otis Taylor combine on touchdown passes of 18, 7 and... |more

  • Ogletree was an undrafted free agent out of Virginia.

    ...were the best. It was always the Yankees." Ogletree admits he attended more Mets than Yankees games as a kid because Shea Stadium was a lot closer to his home than a cross-town trip to the Bronx. But he followed the Yankees on television and caught games in... |more

  • Tony Bennett gives back to his old N.Y. neighborhood with arts school

    ...You’ve said you wanted to keep working on becoming the best singer you’ve ever been. After hearing you sing at Shea Stadium last year with Billy Joel, it seems to be working out. A. That’s my dream. I’m 83 now, and between music and painting, I still have... |more

  • olddogs
    Santa Ana Zoo stars in new Disney movie, ‘Old Dogs’

    ...John Travolta, center, and Robin Williams, right, talk with New York Mets Shawn Green while filming the movie 'Old Dogs' at Shea Stadium before the Mets play the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday, July 26, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) This is a... |more