Yankees/ Mets share ballparks

Shea Stadium has served as the home field for the Mets' crosstown rivals, the New York Yankees. After the Yankees completed their stadium's 50th anniversary season in 1973, the team moved to Shea for the 1974 and 1975 seasons while Yankee Stadium underwent extensive renovations. Again in the 1998 season, the Yankees were forced to play at Shea due to a fallen piece of concrete at Yankee Stadium. On Wednesday April 15, the Yankees played Anaheim in a 12:05 p.m. day game and the Mets hosted the Cubs for their regularly scheduled 7:40 p.m. start, creating a very unusual doubleheader. In 1975, the New York football Giants also played at Shea, marking the first and only time two professional baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees and two professional football teams, the Jets and the Giants played at the same stadium in the same year.

On July 8, 2000 the Mets and Yankees were involved in yet another historic doubleheader, with the first game at Shea Stadium and the second at Yankee Stadium. This event took place due to a makeup game from a rainout during the previous series at Yankee Stadium in June. It was the first time in 97 years that two teams played each other twice in one day at two different ballparks. Three months later the Fall Classic came back to Shea when the Mets faced the Yankees in the first New York/New York World Series since 1956.