A baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville ( implied to be the home team ) is losing by two runs with two outs in their last inning.

::: The " Mudville Nine " could stand ( by the use of synecdoche ) for any baseball team.

* In the book Faithful by Steward O ' Nan and Stephen King, describing the 2004 season of the Boston Red Sox, there is a chapter contributed by King, named " The Gloom is gone from Mudville ".

* The song " Centerfield " by John Fogerty includes the line " Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin ' it from the bench.

Additionally, the scoreboard in the restaurant shows that Mudville lost to the visitors by two runs.

Local residents claim that the team was the inspiration for the Mudville Nine in Casey at the Bat, a poem by Ernest Thayer.

Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville, " The Amazing Dummy " W. W. Norton, New York, ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-393-32557-1.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

* Manning – A hamlet, also previously known as " West Clarendon " or " Mudville ," is located on NY-31A west of Clarendon village.

* 2007 – Mudville – Iris Nova, piano on " Eternity "

Thayer was a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner at the time and the games were hosted in a ballpark on Banner Island, a place once known as Mudville.

In 1964, they moved into newly constructed Shea Stadium in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where the Mets stayed through the 2008 season.

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 Meadows – Corona Park.

However, this would have required the Yankees to play their home games at Shea Stadium in Queens, the regular home of the New York Mets.

The New York Mets and New York Jets both began play at the Polo Grounds, while Shea Stadium in Queens was under construction.

Club owner Walter O ' Malley announced plans for a privately-owned domed stadium for his Dodgers at the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, where a large market was being torn down, but New York City Building Commissioner Robert Moses wanted the city to build a stadium located in Flushing Meadows in the borough of Queens ( the future site of Shea Stadium and Citi Field ).

Located in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, Queens, on Roosevelt Avenue between 114th and 126th Streets, this station's peak use occurs during Mets games at Citi Field ( Shea Stadium from 1964 till 2008 ), located on the north side of the station, and during events at the USTA National Tennis Center, on the south side.

Some individuals, most notably mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner suggested another location in Queens, which has large open spaces and is home to other sports facilities such as Shea Stadium ( the former home of the Jets ), as a possible alternative site for a stadium, but the Jets said that any site other than the West Side would be no better than remaining in New Jersey.

Tuesday, October 14, 1969 at Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, New York

Wednesday, October 15, 1969 at Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, New York

Thursday, October 16, 1969 at Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, New York

Saturday, October 11, 1986 at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York

Sunday, October 12, 1986 at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York

Tuesday, October 14, 1986 at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York

Monday, October 6, 1969 at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York

The City, working with NYC2012, quickly developed a backup plan, which called for a new ballpark for the New York Mets in Queens in the parking lot of Shea Stadium – later named Citi Field – to be completed for the 2009 baseball season ; it was announced on June 12, 2005.

A sports void was parrtially filled in 1962 with the formation of the Mets in 1962, who played their first two seasons at the Polo Grounds, the former home of the Giants, before moving to Shea Stadium in Queens in 1964.

In 1964, the Mets moved to Shea Stadium in Queens, and the Polo Grounds was demolished.

Lorinz was born in Flushing, Queens, close to Shea Stadium and the 1968 World's Fair Grounds.

In 1964, the Mets played their first game in their new stadium in Queens, named Shea Stadium after the man most responsible for the existence of the franchise.

Karsay grew up in the College Point neighborhood in Queens, New York City, just a few miles from Shea Stadium.

He mentions by name the Queens Menalippe, Hippolyta, and Penthesilea.

* Bernard Hamilton, " Women in the Crusader States: The Queens of Jerusalem ", in Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker.

Barcelona were being managed by former Queens Park Rangers manager Terry Venables, who had also brought in Manchester United and Wales striker Mark Hughes.

Ann Heymann has revived the ancient tradition and technique by playing the instrument as well as studying Bunting's original manuscripts in the library of Queens University, Belfast.

That action led to a protest from the citizens of Flushing, Queens, which came to be known as the Flushing Remonstrance, considered by some a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph " Run " Simmons, Darryl " D. M. C.

The SCA has ceremonial rulers chosen by winning tournaments ( Kings / Queens, Princes / Princesses ) in SCA Heavy Combat.

She soon finds herself in the company of both the White and Red Queens who relentlessly confound Alice by using word play to thwart her attempts at logical discussion.

* December 20 – Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York.

Thus, on the coins and charters issued in her name, Tamar is identified as " by the will of God, King of Kings and Queen of Queens of the Abkhazians, Kartvelians, Arranians, Kakhetians, and Armenians ; Shirvanshah and Shahanshah ; Autocrat of all the East and the West, Glory of the World and Faith ; Champion of the Messiah.

A costume associated with Cockneys is that of the Pearly Kings and Queens | pearly King ( or pearly Queen ) worn by London costermonger s who sew thousands of pearl buttons onto their clothing in elaborate and creative patterns.

* Queens ' College, Cambridge is founded by Margaret of Anjou.

Harthacnut presumably consumed large quanties of alcohol, as he was drinking to the health of the bride — he " died as he stood at his drink, and he suddenly fell to the earth with an awful convulsion ; and those who were close by took hold of him, and he spoke no word afterwards …" The likely cause of death was a stroke, " brought about by an excessive intake of alcohol " In The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England ( 2000 ), Clifford Brewer suggested a cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death.

In 2003, to mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society and other community organizations, spearheaded by Paul Maringelli and The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee, erected a plaque in Beiderbecke's honor at the apartment building in which he died in Queens.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

On December 21, 1971, Shakur was named as one of four suspects by New York City police in a hand grenade attack that destroyed a police car and slightly injured two patrolmen in Maspeth, Queens ; a 13-state alarm was issued three days after the attack when a witness identified Shakur and Andrew Jackson from FBI photographs.

The Thomas E. Dewey Medal, sponsored by the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, is awarded annually to one outstanding Assistant District Attorney in each of New York City's five counties ( New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, and Richmond ).

In 1894, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Richmond ( later Staten Island ) to become the five boroughs of the modern New York City.

Although Margaret was aggressively partisan and had a volatile temperament, she shared her husband's love of learning by dint of her cultured upbringing and gave her patronage to the founding of Queens ' College at Cambridge University.

Nassau, together with Suffolk County to its immediate east, are generally referred to as " Long Island " by area residents — as distinct from the New York City boroughs of Queens ( Queens County ) and Brooklyn ( Kings County ), which are geographically on the island's westernmost end.

In 1963, he had an idea for expanding the Long Island Expressway capacity in Queens by adding three more lanes in each direction plus a second, four-lane deck above it.

It has been determined that the first true supermarket in the United States was opened by a former Kroger employee, Michael J. Cullen, on August 4, 1930, inside a former garage in Jamaica, Queens in New York City.