Original: William A. Shea Municipal Stadium , usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea , was a stadium in the New York City borough of Queens , in Flushing Meadowsâ '' Corona Park . It was the home baseball park of Major League Baseball 's New York Mets from 1964 to 2008 .
Simplified: William A. Shea Municipal Stadium or more commonly Shea Stadium ( often referred to in short as Shea ) was a major league ballpark that was the home for the New York Mets 1964 to 2008 when the Mets left for their new home Citi Field .