Going One Bigger
(From the "Christian Science Monitor."/
Are you ready, Texas? Plans have been made to finish off New York's Shea Stadium with a nine million dollar glass dome that Kill top Houston’s Astrodome b-cause it will be: 1. Glare-proof. 2. Bigger. The announcement of the plans for turning Shea Stadium Into an allweather stadium by 1967, also called for 14,000 additional seats. Shea now has 55,000 permanent seats. The dome would be 268 feet high and 745 feet in diameter. That would make it about 60 feet higher than the roof of
the Astrodome, which has a diameter of more than 600 feet The glare problem that originally plague* l the Astrodome outfielders on the Houston baseball team had trouble tracking fly balls—woulc be solved by the use of tempered glass. The park, however, will not be air-conditioned. The plans call for e: haust fans atop the dome to create a continuous flow of air through pen sheet aluminum louvres enclosing the stadium. The ball park then would be cooler In the summer, and, with the louvres closed, warmer in the winter.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 23
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