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Helmet Day collection-nautical The eatery sprang up duringLong before baseball teams started giving away bobbleheads and souvenir cups like candy, there was Helmet Day at Shea Stadium. Some 54,424 spectators, the largest crowd of the season, packed the ballpark in Queens for a New York Mets game and a free helmet on May 30, 1970. They gave out 37,212 plastic batting helmets to the small ones in the crowd on a cool and sunny Memorial Day afternoon, wrote The Times after the Mets beat the Houston Astros, 4 3.