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You Gotta Believe
by Emily Meg Weinstein 07/02/2009Neighborhood: Queens, Shea Stadium
My best friend Rebecca’s birthday present this year was two tickets to see the Mets at Shea Stadium. After a bag search and full-body metal-detector sweeping, we made it to our seats just in time to sit out the national anthem. I like to get to a ball game on time, if only for the […]
What it Feels Like for a Mets Fan
by Daniel Nelson 11/21/2002Neighborhood: Queens, Shea Stadium
Men will ruin $500 suits scrambling for a $5 baseball. It’s an adage as old as the idea of men wearing suits to a ball game. It also happens to be true. Every person attending a major league baseball game — from the youngest child being indoctrinated into the ritualistic church of Baseball at the […]