It took 29 months to plan and construct Shea Stadium and it wasn’t even fully complete when the Mets hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 17, 1964. At the time, the planes flying into LaGuardia ...

While Yankee Stadium is often referred to as a baseball cathedral, Shea Stadium is often called a dump. Yankee Stadium is baseball's big stage. Shea Stadium is shaped like a toilet seat. Yankee ...

NEW YORK – So much of the Mets’ inaugural 1962 season was about nostalgia, the celebrated return of National League baseball to New York, and well, losing. A lot of losing. Whatever bright future ...

It takes all kinds, and the 1969 Mets had them, from the glamorously terrific Tom Seaver to the scrappy Bud Harrelson to all manner of kids, veterans, role players and indispensable cogs in between.

Jim McAndrew, who lost his major league debut to Bob Gibson in a 1968 spot start for the New York Mets when Nolan Ryan was called away to military duty, then beat Steve Carlton a month later for his ...

To many, "Summer of '69'' creates memories of a Bryan Adams song. Don't tell that to longtime fans of the New York Mets and Chicago Cubs, who will meet in this year's NLCS. Forty-six years ago, the ...