New York Mets - Shea Stadium Final Season - 24KT Gold and Infield Dirt Coin Photo Mint

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The Highland Mint commemorates the Final Season at Shea Stadium with this unique collectible that features an 8x10 Photo of a present day color image of Shea Stadium combined with a Black and White image from 1964! Each is presented in a 13” x 16” Frame with team colored double matting. The custom 8”x10” photo includes the official “Final Season” logo and it's featured with a Commemorative Final Season 24KT Gold overlay Coin measuring 1.5” in diameter and a 1.5” bronze Coin with MLB Authenticated Shea Stadium Infield Dirt embedded in the center! Each infield Dirt coin is labeled with a numbered MLB hologram confirming it's authenticity. As well a numbered Certificate of Authenticity is matted between both Gold Coins. Limited Edition of 5000 and Officially Licensed by the MLB and MLBPA.

New York Mets - Shea Stadium Final Season - 24KT Gold and Infield Dirt Coin Photo Mint Review

Truth to tell, I never liked Shea Stadium qua stadium, even though my best friend met his wife there, and the Mets have won every game I've been there to see them play. Built by Robert Moses, it had all the personality of a cement salad bowl, which is, from what I'm given to understand, about twenty times more personality than Mr. Moses himself had.

Shea was originally conceived as a new home for the Brooklyn Dodgers. However, Dodger owner Wallet Full O'Money---er, Walter F. O'Malley---declared that NO, NEVER would he accept any home for the Dodgers than one in Brooklyn. Which, it follows logically, is why they have been in Los Angeles for fifty years.

Not only did O'Money break Brooklyn's heart, but he managed to convince his drunken drinkin' buddy, Horace Stoneham, to take HIS team, the New York Giants, away from the Polio Grounds---um, the Polo Grounds---in northern Manhattan, and move them to San Francisco, where O'Malley could then have a built-in competition and historic rivalry to feed to California's starving major league baseball fans.

In 1958, after the Bums and the Jints made off with two thirds of the greatest baseball empire in the world, and both New York National League franchises, to boot, it fell to a cadre of angry Giant and Dodger fans to lobby for an expansion team. One of the proposed names for this new team was Giodgers (how DO you pronounce that, anyway?)

William Shea, O'Malley's old law partner and a newly-minted despiser of the Big Oom, founded the New York Metropolitans Baseball Club, which began operating in 1962. The Metropolitans ("Mets") were named for a New York baseball club of the 1880s. The 1880s Mets team was eventually purchased by the owners of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms aka The Trolley Dodgers, aka The Dodgers, and the Mets' players filled out the Dodgers' lineup.

In an historic turnaround, the 1962 Mets played at the Giants' Polo Grounds, an elongated concrete bathtub with an impossibly vast outfield, located directly across the Harlem River from Yankee Stadium, and used many former Brooklyn Dodgers to fill out their original lineups. The new team adopted Dodger Blue and Giant Orange as its colors (taking up pinstripes like the Yankees), and borrowed the Giants' former interlinked "NY" cap device. In true 1920s Daffy Dodger tradition, the newly-formed Mets never made it out of the basement, holding the record for most games lost in a season for about 40 years.

Moving to Shea Stadium in 1964 barely helped at first, even with a record-shattering Beatles concert that year, but in 1969, managed by Brooklyn Dodger great Gil Hodges, the Miracle Mets won the World Series. Despite a few lousy years along the way, they have remained in contention ever since, winning the Pennant in 1973, 1986, 1987 and 2000, and again winning the Series in '86.

Now owned by Fred Wilpon, a lifelong Brooklyn Dodger fan, the Mets have a new home, their third, adjacent to Shea. Designed to look like the Dodgers' classic Brooklyn home, Ebbets Field, it is a great memoriam to one half of the Mets' baseball parentage.

This handsome Highland Mint Photomint collaging outside and interior views of Shea complete with infield dirt and 24 kt. gold coin, memorializes the cement salad bowl, which despite its design, gained and grew in character over the 44 years that the Mets lived there. Now in it's final season, Shea is a place that shall be missed.

This is a must have for any dedicated fan of the "Mutts." Gotta love them Mets. And, you gotta believe!

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