During a pregame ceremony at Shea Stadium to honor the Army’s 200th birthday, cannons loaded with blanks blew out panels of the outfield fence.

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Fifty years ago, Shea Stadium was the only place to be. That’s not an ad campaign. That's a fact. In 1975, the circular ballpark in Flushing and famously in the flight path of jet planes landing ...

On August 15, 1965, the modern stadium rock concert was born with The Beatles' outdoor show at New York's packed Shea Stadium.

Shea Stadium during a Mets-Giants game on May 31, 1964. Credit: AP/John Lindsay But when it all started, the modern new stadium and modern new fair site were inextricably linked.

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 ...

Jack Fisher, who started the first game at Shea Stadium on April 17, 1964, will be among those at Citi Field on Tuesday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the occasion — which coincided with ...

Norwood's Shea Stadium is in the process of its first renovation project since 2002. The stadium, which opened in 1972, is the home to a dozen Norwood City Schools teams.

In 1965, The Beatles played their biggest show yet at Shea Stadium. Photos from the concert show the excitement and chaos of Beatlemania.

A crowd of about 55,600 people filled Shea Stadium in New York in August 1965 to watch The Beatles perform on a stage set up in the middle of the baseball infield. Here's how that concert came ...

The Who's full October 13,1982, concert at Shea Stadium will be released on CD and vinyl for the first time in March.