Why Shea Stadium DIED

Shea Stadium stood in Queens for 45 seasons and was torn down to make a parking lot. This is the full story of why Shea Stadium died, and what New York City's treatment of its own landmarks says about who the borough was really built for. This video traces the complete arc of Shea Stadium from the political crisis that made it necessary to the asphalt that replaced it. You will learn how New York City lost the Dodgers and Giants in the same year, how a lawyer named William Shea essentially blackmailed Major League Baseball into giving the city a new franchise, and how the resulting stadium was built on the very land the Dodgers had already rejected. The video covers the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea in full detail, the first stadium rock concert in history, the moment John Lennon said he saw the top of the mountain and what it meant that 43 years later Paul McCartney closed the building's final concert on the same bass guitar.