SPORTS NEWS

Tickets for New Stadiums: Prices, and Outrage, Escalate

Even as fans of the Mets, the Yankees, the Giants and the Jets look forward to state-of-the-art stadiums, some are also facing increases in ticket costs during an economic downturn.

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 9:38 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: New York Yankees, New York Giants, New York Jets, New York Mets, Stadiums and Arenas, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Yankee Stadium (NYC), Shea Stadium (NYC)

For Braves’ Jones, a Personal Link to Shea

Chipper Jones is one of two familiar faces left from a rivalry between the Braves and the Mets that started in 1999 at Shea Stadium.

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 11:10 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, Shea Stadium (NYC), Jones, Chipper

Citi Field’s Best Will Cost $495

The new cost for the best seats in Citi Field is a 79 percent increase over this year, but still shy of the $2,500 tickets at the new Yankee Stadium.

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:57 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, New York Mets, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Shea Stadium (NYC), Citi Field

Op-Ed Contributor: No Game for Old Men

Anyone who lived in New York at the time knows the Mets ruled the city in the ’80s.

Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 11:56 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, New York Mets, Shea Stadium (NYC), History, Nineteen Hundred Seventies

Rollins Hears the Boos, and He Says They Energize Him

Jimmy Rollins of the Phillies praised the fans at Shea Stadium for creating a hostile environment, even if none of it unnerves him.

Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:34 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Shea Stadium (NYC), Rollins, Jimmy

Sports Business: Citigroup Puts Its Money Where Its Name Will Be

With high name recognition and a place among the world’s banking leaders, Citigroup hardly needed the Citi name plastered on a ballpark.

Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:28 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Mets, New Jersey Nets, Stadiums and Arenas, Shea Stadium (NYC), Barclays Plc|BCS|NYSE, Citigroup Incorporated|C|NYSE

Executive Pursuits: Drag, Water, Repeat: Caring for Major League Dirt

The ostensibly blue-collar pursuit of groundskeeping takes on much higher importance when it is applied to tending to the field at Shea Stadium.

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 8:28 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Mets, Weather, Shea Stadium (NYC), Grass, Gardens and Gardening

Sports of The Times: A Sentimental Doubleheader Journey, With Full Police Escort

The highlight of Friday’s Bronx-Queens doubleheader may not be anything that happens on the field but rather the police escort across the Triborough Bridge.

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 3:59 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: New York Yankees, New York Mets, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC), Shea Stadium (NYC)

The City Life: Boo! Boo! Boo! for the Home Team

Booing, once directed only at the visiting team, has become the dagger du jour as hometown fans bestow blame on their team’s players.

Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 8:50 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Baseball, New York Mets, Brooklyn (NYC), Shea Stadium (NYC), Customs, Etiquette and Manners, Hodges, Gil

Mets Notebook: Police Say Fan Lost Balance Sliding on Handrail

A 36-year-old man who plunged to his death as he left Tuesday’s game at Shea Stadium had tried to slide down an escalator handrail and lost his balance, the police said.

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:34 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: New York Mets, Shea Stadium (NYC), Accidents and Safety

Sports of The Times: Lots of Time Left at the Stadium for Nostalgia

Brace yourself for a season of nostalgia. Everything that happens at Yankee Stadium, or Shea Stadium, for that matter, will be the last of this or the last of that.

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 4:56 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments