Citi Field will have beautiful sightlines, new food choices, and a beautiful rotunda entrance. What it will not have is the memories of being there with my Grandparents, the ghosts of Bruce Boisclair, of Willies long since retired (Montanez, Mays) of Ninos and Kelvins and Nolans. It will not have the #20 in the upper decks commemorating Agee's blast or helmets with adjustable straps, where one size fits all. It won't have Bob Murphy or Lindsay Nelson, though it hopefully will have at least a smattering fo Kiner.
When I was in College, I wrote a poem about baseball, but it as really about Shea as much as it was about the game. The last lines went:
Though base ball is a game for men,
When I'm here I'm young again.
Citi field may have my future, but Shea, you will always have my past.
