When the wrecking ball begins to lay waste to what once was heaven to millions of fans, it will not be a Mets baseball game that would have closed out the long and proud history of Shea Stadium.
In fact, it will be the Piano Man, Billy Joel, who will preside over Shea Stadium’s final farewell. The native New Yorker will perform a string of concerts there shortly after the end of the Mets 2008 season.
No official dates have been set yet for the concert series.
Shea Stadium has been the stage for many historic appearances including the Beatles, The Police, Elton John, and even the Pope.
It was the home of the 1969 "Miracle" Mets, the 1973 "Ya Gotta Believe" Mets, and of course the 1986 "Get Metsmerized" Mets, for whom this site is aptly named.
If you had to pick one person, outside of a past or present New York Mets player, to bring down the house, you couldn’t have chosen a better guy than Billy Joel.
Shea Stadium will not live to see it’s 45th birthday. Like Bill Joel said in his best selling single of all time, "Only The Good Die Young."
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