Mr. Shea Stadium!

New York Mets and Shea Stadium Memorabilia

Stadium Demolition

NOTE: This page is set up for the die-hard fan. Fans who will collect bricks, steel, fencing or nuts and bolts

etc. just because "it came from Shea". It is for those fans and collectors that this page is set up for.

Shea Stadium "Bricks" educational moment

The number one question we get asked more than any other goes something like this, " I saw a brick on eBay (or

somewhere) and it looks different from the one my friend has. How do I know if it is really from Shea Stadium or not"?

Since there were a few different bricks in Shea Stadium we thought it would be helpful to educate fans and collectors.

There are three main bricks from Shea Stadium that we will label as small, medium and large. These three bricks

have one visible thing in common with each other. They all have the same "face", the side seen from the outside. That

is the only thing they have in common as everything else about them is different (the small & medium side view is also

the same as the face and back). These three bricks were mixed all together in the construction of Shea Stadium. In

other words you will find for sale a brick "block", with two or more bricks still together which will have either two or all

three of the different size bricks in it.

With that said, there is no difference from the bricks used on the outside wall, inside or outfield walls. Unless the

brick has a MLB hologram that states it came from a particular place, the brick could have come from anywhere in the

Stadium.

The next question that follows is, "If it doesn't have an MLB hologram ID on it, how do I know if it really came from Shea

or not. How do I know someone didn't go to Home Depot and buy it"? ( For those who are not from the New York area,

New Yorkers have a "street smart" about them and don't trust anyone. Always on their toes so they don't get taken). The

truth is you'll never know for sure. However if it looks like these three it probably is from Shea and here's why.

Bricks change from year to year. Bricks that were made just a few years ago look different than those made today!

Remember, Shea opened in 1964 but ground was broken in October 1961, 50 + years ago! Do you have any idea just ho

many different changes bricks have gone through since than? Even if there was someone who wanted to deceive fans,

I doubt that they could ever find any bricks that look like these . I know we've never seen them before!

Small Bricks

Standard front look and on the side. The top shows the

main distinction of this brick. It has two rows of holes, five

per row. The back view shows the vertical ridges

Top View

Front View

Side View

Back View

Medium Brick

Standard front look and on the side. The top shows this

bricks main distinction. It has one row of 5 large holes. The

back view shows the vertical ridges.

Top View

Front View

Side View

Back View

Large Brick

Standard front look. Bottom is flat. The top shows one long ridge. The

back has one long line. The side view shows two round tube holes that

goes all the way through. These side holes and lack of holes on the top

is the main difference between this one and the other two.

Front View

Side View

Bottom View

Top and back View

Small, Medium and Large size bricks on outside wall at Shea Stadium

Side View

Top View

Orange Cinder Blocks

Standard cinder block. Very common item. While not

many people paint them orange, we would be a little more

cautious about one of them without any paperwork or

hologram ID #

As you can see from our photo on the right, the orange

cinder block came from the ground, first level (field). Some

also have another color on the other side like "pink" as that

side was a ladies room. We are not aware of any other level

cinder blocks being removed or authenticated by MLB.

Now for some reason a few of these blocks have hologram

ID #'s that say they came from the outfield wall. As far as we

can see from ALL of the Shea photos we have, we don't see

any orange walls out there. The outfield wall was blue on

plywood. The back and all of the Long Ball Alley was chain

link, and the sides had the above three bricks. So while we

respect the hard work MLB has done, unless someone can

show us a photo of an outfield wall painted orange, we

believe they all came from inside the field level.

Orange Cinder Blocks while in Shea Stadium

Walk way pavers

These pavers are very common and are found

in most of the parks in the five boroughs of

New York. I do not believe any of them were

given a hologram by MLB so unless you pulled it

yourself from the Stadium (as we did) I would

not trust any being sold as from Shea.

Walk way pavers while at Shea Stadium

Red Brick

Standard red brick. Front, bottom and sides are flat. The top is indented with the name "Hutton". We pulled

only a few of these from the demo site not thinking that there would be much interest in a "common" red brick.

However after some research we found it was not "common" at all. The Hutton brick company (est. 1890) was

sold in 1965 (the year after Shea opened) to another company, sold once more and closed in 1980. The point

being is that after 1965 there were no more of these bricks made. So if someone has a Hutton brick and says it

came from Shea, there's a very good chance that it did. As far as we know, MLB did not hologram any of them.

http://brickcollecting.com/hutton.htm

Front View

Side View

Front View

Bottom View

Bricks from Shea Stadium during the demolition

Small

Medium

Large

Brick "block" set.

Broken Bricks, Small parts

Broken Bricks, Large parts

Field Level Corridor Block

Field Level Corridor in Shea during the demo

Red Hutton Brick

Concrete ramp railing

This is part of the concrete railing that were on the sides of

the ramps that you would walk to get to the upper levels. We

Concrete ramp Railing while in Shea

know of no one else who has one of these. And what makes

this one so interesting is the inscription. It says, "2-1364". Could

it be "2/13/1964, a date 2 months before Shea opened? We have

no way to know for sure but it is still an interesting part of Shea Stadium.

We literally have parts of Shea Stadium!

While many people were interested in just

grabbing bricks, we looked at the blue steel from

the stadium and felt true fans would be interested

in it. We ended up "saving" some of the debris

from the scrap piles and glad we did! As far as we

know, no one else has any and we do not believe

MLB authenticated any either. In other words, we

have the only lot available of "Shea" blue.

Shea Stadium debris during Demolition

Heavy Steel Screen

Steel squares

Chain link fence while in Shea Stadium

Parking lot chain link fence

Parking lot chain link fence "links"

6 foot by 3 foot section of the parking lots chain link

fence along with two of the upright poles

Dark & light Blue wall tiles

These wall tiles were used on the walls in food court areas.

Blue wall tiles while up in Shea Stadium

High resolution 4 x 10 photo

Demolition # 1

Panoramic view of both stadiums. One coming down while the other is going up

High resolution 8 x 10 photos

Demolition # 2

Demolition # 3

Demolition # 4

Demolition # 5

Demolition # 6

Demolition # 7

Shea is all gone now just ruble as Citi Field stands

in the background

Demolition # 9

Last section standing

Demolition # 8

Demolition # 10 & 11

Last section. Before, and after

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