Opening-Day Pitches ; Yanks, Mets Push Stadium Plans As Season Starts
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › April 03, 2006
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The home-plate umpire's cry of "Play ball!" will be heard today at Shea Stadium for the New York Mets' regular-season opener and again at Yankee Stadium next week when the Yankees' home season begins.
But if the Mets and the Yankees get their way, there will be only two more home openers in each of their familiar stadiums before they move into brand-new ballparks in 2009.See the full content of this document
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Opening-Day Pitches ; Yanks, Mets Push Stadium Plans As Season Starts
The Yankees have a slight edge on the Mets in the ballpark- building race just as they have had on the field in recent seasons. But both teams hope to break ground by midsummer if they can surmount a variety of regulatory and environmental obstacles.
The Mets plan a 42,500-seat park one with about 13,000 fewer seats than Shea that is intended to evoke memories of Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers until the team moved to Los Angeles in 1957.The Yankees, who ...See the full content of this document
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