Shea Stadium, ca. 1964. Once a three-team city, New York’s sole baseball representative between 1958-1962 was the Yankees. In 1962, the expansion New York Mets joined the National League, playing their first two seasons at the Polo Grounds, the Giants’ former stadium in upper Manhattan. Erected during the building boom preceding the 1964 New York World's Fair, Shea Stadium was constructed, at a cost of $28.5 million, with motorized stands to allow it to be converted from a baseball diamond in the spring to a football gridiron in the fall. It was the home to the New York Jets (1964-84) and the New York Giants (1973-75) until each left New York City for Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. On April 17, 1964, the Mets played their first game at their new permanent home, Shea Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens.

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In 2013 the Brooklyn Collection acquired several boxes of Brooklyn Dodgers memorabilia from Al Todres, a lifelong collector. Todres certainly wasn’t the only one actively collecting Brooklyn Dodgers material nearly 60 years after the team was transferred to Los Angeles. Why does a baseball team that left Brooklyn in the middle of the last century still inspire so much loyalty and curiosity? Every collector has a different answer, and it certainly goes beyond statistics and player performance. The team that would become the Dodgers played in Eastern Park when Brooklyn was still an independent city, through a depression and two world wars. The story of the Dodgers runs parallel to the development of modern Brooklyn, but it wasn’t always an easy story.

Willets Point Boulevard Station, 1963. From the Eastbound platform of the Willets Point station the Unisphere, in the process of construction, can be seen to the left. Six months after this photograph was taken the World’s Fair opened. After then fair was over the grounds were converted into Flushing Meadow Park.