Oct 28 2008 05:22 PM
This is a great piece of film.
Are those guys tossing around a football in the "standing room only" area?
I've been surfing the net the last few weeks collecting images of Shea for my Met photo collection.
Even with its limited clarity/quality that look at the model of the scoreboard is worth a screen grab.
I've always been fascinated with that scoreboard from the first time I walked up the tunnel to view the field and I saw it.
I was very disappointed when they changed its look (this is reflected in my '86 Met tribute drawing
where I drew the scoreboard the way I wished it looked at that time [shown below]).
I've seen artists renderings of the scoreboard before it was constructed,
but I don't think I ever came across pictures of a model like that.
I doubt that model still exists but thats something I'd bid on if they auctioned it off.
I see I colored the batters eye blue instead of black. I don't recall if I did this on a whim or if thats the way it was in those days.
I was working from a picture of Shea that was part of a pullout calander/schedule from an issue of "Inside Pitch".
Was it ever blue?