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Title: 30 years of progress, 1934-1964 : Department of Parks : 300th anniversary of the City of New York : New York World's Fair.
Identifier: 30yearsofprogres00newy (find matches)
Year: 1964 (1960s)
Authors: New York (N. Y. ). Department of Parks.
Subjects: New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York, N. Y. ); Playgrounds
Publisher: (New York?) : (publisher not identified)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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SHEA STADIUM — FLUSHING MEADOW PARK shea municipal stadium flushing meadow park In 1957 Mayor Wagner appointed a committee consisting of Bernard F. Gimbel, James A. Farley, Clinton W. Blume and William A. Shea to negotiate for establishing a new major league baseball team in New York City. Recognizing the persistent efforts of William A. Shea in the assigned task, the Board of Estimate and the Mayor approved a bill introduced and passed in the City Council naming the stadium in his honor. Located adjacent to the New York World's Fair Grounds in Flush- ing Meadow Park, construction was completed in 1964. This new facility contains seats for 5 5,000 spectators for baseball and 60,000 for football and is so designed that it can be expanded by 2 5,000 seats in the future without disturbance to the initial construction. This would result in capacities of 80,000 for baseball, 8 5,000 for football and even more for other events when the field could be utilized for seating. For baseball, 67

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