Shame on me, I typed “at Shea” in the headline before I caught my mistake. Shea had many things wrong with it, but at least I could see all 9 position players.
Sometimes I outsmart myself. I had saved the article (for weekend content) below because I thought it was cool that these vision impaired brothers go to games.
As I was getting ready to post it on Friday night, I caught this at the bottom!
..many people sitting in the upper deck, especially deep in left field, echoed what others have said: the warning track and a large chunk of left and center field were out of view.
“Give me back Shea,†said Hal Berzow, who has a 15-game pack in Section 534. “The view I saw online was not enough. If I knew then what I knew now, I wouldn’t have bought these seats.â€
The Times also made me smile with this old memory. I did this too!
…back in the late 1970s, the team drew so poorly at Shea Stadium that the vast upper deck would be shut and fans could move down to the mezzanine deck.
But inevitably, a few fans would scramble up to the last seat in the last row of the top deck in left field or right field, the most remote perches in the stadium. They would sit there for an inning or two, perhaps enjoying an illicit smoke or the rush of the planes heading to La Guardia Airport. Eventually, a tired security guard would walk up the steep steps and tell them to come down.
And now to the nice part of the article…
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