New Stadium

[bones507]

I just got to see what the new stadium for the Mets is going to look like on the Mets website and i love that its going to look like the old Ebbets field on the outside. Man you cant beat that for anything. I got to go back to Shea one more time before its gone forever.
Anyone else see it ?

[runningshoes]

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/859.jpg

[runningshoes]

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/860.jpg

[runningshoes]

http://www.ajclay.com/PTC/pictures/861.jpg

[EvanAparra]

Absolutely beautiful.

[bones507]

Thanks for the Pics, Running shoes. Nice stuff.

[DODGER DEB]

As usual, great shots, RS! Thank you for posting them.

While the outside of the new ballpark looks a lot like OUR Ebbets Field, I was hoping that someone would have the "genius" to recreate OUR incredibly beautiful Marble Rotunda. It was truly one of a kind. All the marble was imported from Italy. No other ballpark, before or since, has ever had such an entrance. Since MLB is in a retro mood these days, that certainly would have been a great touch.

c.

[bones507]

As usual, great shots, RS! Thank you for posting them.

While the outside of the new ballpark looks a lot like OUR Ebbets Field, I was hoping that someone would have the "genius" to recreate OUR incredibly beautiful Marble Rotunda. It was truly one of a kind. All the marble was imported from Italy. No other ballpark, before or since, has ever had such an entrance. Since MLB is in a retro mood these days, that certainly would have been a great touch.

c.

Dodger Deb, im sure youre already aware of this but theres an online store that sells mainly Brooklyn Dodger memorabilia and whatnot. Anyway i was there the other day and ordered two pins with pictures of the infamous "Bum" on them. I wasnt old enough to see them play but i am fascinated by that time and era of baseball in New York anyway. I beleive the site is Dugout-memories.com.

[MATHA531]

It's too bad they had to put double deck stands in right field although they borrowed from the Polo Grounds with the overhang of the upper deck over the lower deck....I still picture outfielders at the Polo Grounds camping under pop flies to left and right with their gloves up and the ball glancing off the overhang for a home run (Jim Hickman did that to end a long losing streak for Roger Craig for the 1963 Mets)....but

How much more authentic would it have been with a high wall in right field with a scoreboard but I would have accepted the sacreligeous idea they had at Fenway with seats above the wall (like the monster seats at Fenway)...perhaps a scoreboard with a sign at the bottom from I don't know who promising a suit of clothes if you hit the sign (of course that would put additional pressure on whoever will be playing right field for the Mets in 2009).