What college football stadium do you consider the best field of screams?”
OCT. 28, 1961 Construction begins on Municipal Stadium at Flushing Meadow Park, Queens; the ballpark will soon be renamed Shea Stadium in honor of William Shea, the influential lawyer who strong-armed Major League Baseball into establishing a new team in New York. Unable to persuade any National League teams to relocate here, Shea dreamed up the Continental League, an organization to compete with the majors. But baseball officials buckled, New York was awarded an expansion National League franchise, and the Continental League never saw its first bunt. LATE 1962 The new stadium is nearly complete, but it is discovered that the structure is sinking into the swamp upon which it is built. In 1963, the Mets play their second season at the Polo Grounds in Harlem until the problem is corrected. APRIL 17, 1964 An enthusiastic crowd of 50,312 settles into a sea of orange and blue seats — orange for the New York Giants, blue for the Brooklyn Dodgers — and watches the Mets lose, 4-3, to the Pitts
