On July 8, 2008, Reyes collected his first major league hit at Shea Stadium against Jack Taschner of the San Francisco Giants.
The Mets won only 42 percent of their games, the front office went through three general managers, and attendance at Shea Stadium fell.
Ayala made his major league debut as the Mets' starting left fielder at Shea Stadium on August 27, 1974.
Having been created by Bill some years prior, this brass band, consisting of high school brass students, had the opportunity of performing in venues such as Shea Stadium and West Point.
A Red Sox World Series victory seemed all but a certainty as the Shea Stadium scoreboard was all set to display "Congratulations Boston Red Sox, 1986 World Champions".
Gómez was part of the youth movement in New York, and had quickly become a fan favorite at Shea Stadium.
(They originally wanted to play at Shea Stadium, and even sued the New York Jets after the AFL team cited an exclusive right to play there; meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers sued them over the use of the name "Brooklyn Dodgers".)
On September 28, 2008, Uggla hit the last home run ever at Shea Stadium.
The back side of the cover of this album included a die cast picture of Shea Stadium to celebrate Grand Funk beating The Beatles' Shea Stadium attendance record by selling out in just 72 hours.
On September 28, the final day of the 2008 regular season and the final game at Shea Stadium, the Mets played the Florida Marlins.
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Chávez's catch at Shea Stadium in Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series is seen by many as one of the most remarkable plays in baseball history.
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On October 3, 2004 Chávez recorded the final out in Montreal Expos history in their 8–1 loss to the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
One of those wins came on the second to last day of the season against Ron Darling and the New York Mets in front of 45,404 at Shea Stadium.
A subplot of the episode involves Don's getting tickets to take his daughter to the Beatles' August 15, 1965 concert at Shea Stadium.
During a mid-June rain delay at Shea Stadium, Kinsler hopped to his feet, raced from the dugout and dove head-first across the wet tarp covering the infield as though it was a giant Slip 'n Slide.
On June 19, 2007, on the team bus to a game at Shea Stadium, Bert Blyleven said he would have his head shaved if that night's starting pitcher, Santana, threw a complete-game shutout.
Kobel held the Yankees scoreless on two hits through seven innings in the rain delayed second game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium.
He threw the final pitch during actual game play of Shea Stadium (Tom Seaver would throw a "final pitch" during the post-game activities).
This often proved distracting to fans and players when aircraft flew overhead, but inadvertently proved strategic - as the AAA franchise of the New York Mets, players for the Tides could hope to someday be called to play in Shea Stadium, the location of which endures similar noise from nearby LaGuardia Airport.
De los Santos won his first and only big league game one week later at Shea Stadium.
On April 17, 1964, Harkness led off for the Mets in the bottom of the first inning and had a single off of Bob Friend in the third inning to become the first Mets player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium as part of a 4–3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Wilbur's reputation — presumably developed from spring training dispatches and broadcasts, and augmented by the assonance of his name — was such that fans began appearing at Shea Stadium, during the building's inaugural season of 1964, wearing "Wilbur Huckle for President" pins.
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The Jets finished the season 5–8–1, while playing their final season of home games at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, before relocating to Shea Stadium in the borough of Queens the following season.
Game 3 was a back-and-forth contest won by the Mets when Lenny Dykstra hit a two-run, walk-off homer against Astros' reliever Dave Smith in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving New York a 6–5 victory and 2–1 series lead on a Saturday afternoon at Shea Stadium.
On September 11, 1974, against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium, with the Cardinals trailing 3-1 with two out in the ninth and pinch runner Larry Herndon on base, he hit a home run off starter Jerry Koosman to send the game into extra innings.
During the summer, when the New York Rangers and New York Knicks are spending their offseasons, Castoldi can be heard at the organ at New York Mets games at Citi Field (and previously Shea Stadium).
After the New York Jets left Shea Stadium (following the 1983 season) to play at the Meadowlands, Willets Point was the proposed location for a new, 82,000-seat domed football stadium that would bring the Jets back to New York.