Top 10 Shea Stadium Moments
Fifty years ago, the Beatles changed the way America witnessed live music by performing the first stadium show of its size and scope. On Aug. 15, 1965, the boys from Liverpool played a record-shattering concert at New York’s Shea Stadium, which would be televised on BBC and ABC, immortalized in a documentary, and further the massive reach of Beatlemania in the ’60s. The Mets called Shea home from 1964 to 2008, and captured the franchise's two world championships in 1969 and 1986 at the stadium. Here are our top 10 moments in Shea Stadium history.