Shea Stadium home plate headed for orbit

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Shea’s Home Plate Space Bound
Published 8/18/2008 by Peter Wade at Hot Foot
... Reisman of Morristown, N.J. Reisman carried dirt from the Yankee Stadium pitcher’s mound on the shuttle Endeavour mission in March. “We can do better than that, pal,” said Massimino, 46, of Franklin Square, L.I. “We’re flying a home plate from Shea.” I love that my Mets & Shea are involved, but the 2007 home plate?? Couldn’t they have picked something from a different season??… Well, I wish you guys better luck than the 2007 Mets had. Via - NY Daily News ShareThis

Daily Dump: Croatian Swim Team & Mustache Rides, The Michael Phelps Breakfast, Condoms Not Being Used, Shea Plate Headed To Space & The Gina Carano Of Dogs
Published 8/18/2008 by J Koot at Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football
... rides [DC Sports Bog] Reporter tries to eat the Michael Phelps breakfast [Ballhype/YouTube] Lindsay, hottest NBC Olympics reporter? Sure beats Carillo [Uncoached] Olympians not exactly doing ‘it’; Condoms not being used [Coed] Track hero withdraws, China shits itself [College OTR] Jets objectify own women, fail code of conduct, Mushnick raps [NY Post] Shea home plate headed to space [NY Daily News] UNC tennis player got a little drunk, crashed into pedestrians ...

Yankees sent dirt into space - now, Shea Stadium plate headed for orbit
Published 8/18/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Yankees sent dirt into space - now, Shea Stadium plate headed for orbit When baseball worlds collide! All this and they still can’t find room for that crazed wheelchair-bound industrialist ...

ToTO: The Reds have a fever and the only prescription is ...
Published 8/18/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... 4. A Mets-loving astronaut will take Shea Stadium's home plate into space this fall. Obligatory punchline: Hey, it's not like the Mets are going to use it anyway! [NYDN via ...

View: Citi Field Scoreboard, Shea in Space
Published 8/18/2008 by Matthew Cerrone at MetsBlog.com
... According to the Daily News, “Months after a (Yankees fan) astronaut carried some dirt from Yankee Stadium into orbit, a Mets fan has upped the ante and will take a home plate from Shea into space this October.” ...

Moonshot
Published 8/18/2008 by SF at YFSF
... Is there room in the capsule for Julio Lugo?

WELCOME TO PURPLE HEART DAY AT SHEA
Published 8/18/2008 by kranepool at Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog
... A story in today’s Daily News details astronaut Mike Massimino transporting Shea Stadium home plate from the 2007 season into orbit . Word is J-Man was hoping that Gimp Castillo would be joining the plate in outer space. ...

Yanks, Mets fighting over space
Published 8/19/2008 by Ben K. at River Avenue Blues » River Avenue Blues, A New York Yankees Blog
... And I mean literally fighting over space. Last year, the Yanks sent some dirt from their current stadium into Outer Space. This October, the Mets will be sending their 2007 home plate into the Final Frontier. What the point of all this is, I have no idea. ...