Last week top US rounders outfit the New York Mets played the first home game of their final season at the club’s iconic Shea Stadium (pictured below) – the team’s home since 1964 and surely one of the few major sporting venues named after a lawyer.
William Shea was a prime mover in bringing top-flight rounders – or ‘baseball’ as Americans call it – back to New York after the city’s two franchises had decamped for greener pastures on the West Coast. So grateful were the humble townsfolk that they named the Mets’ new home after him.
