Shea No More

The new park, Citi Field, opens in April and is designed to evoke Ebbets Field, the Dodgers' old home. Fans will walk through tall archways into the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. The seats will be larger, with more legroom. There'll be fancy food prepared by star chefs. The building will cost some $800 million. Ticket prices have soared. "Sure, I'm sorry to see Shea go," says Willie Rodriguez, a sheet-metal worker from Bay Shore, Long Island. Rodriguez is 47, born in Queens. He comes to a half-dozen games a year. "We all grew up here. But I'll go to games in the new place—if I can afford it. I mean, I've been a Mets fan all my life."