Woman reunited with dad’s ashes, readers give fan sacred Shea dirt

Shades of Hitchcock’s “The Jar”...Ashburn appears at Shea.

The Mets vowed not to budge - but three big-hearted Daily News readers were eager to help a woman barred from retrieving her father’s ashes at Shea Stadium.

The story of Lisa Hasson’s failed attempt to scoop dirt, and hopefully some of her father’s remains, from the ballpark’s pitching mound on Saturday touched one worker.  So the worker, who said he was dismantling the doomed stadium’s bleachers, contacted The News and offered to give Hasson a plastic bag of dirt he took from the mound.

“I took this for myself but it means more to her than it means to me,” said carpenter Chris McGonigle, 26, of Queens, as he handed over a jar full of dirt to Hasson and her 10-year-old son, Ben, last night.

...Hasson, 48, said she was following the final wishes of her father by sprinkling his ashes on the mound 12 years ago. She planned to save some of the soil and sprinkle the rest in the new Citi Field.

Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said the organization could not let Hasson on the field for “safety reasons,” as workers were tearing out the bleachers and using large machinery.

“"I’m not trying to be hard about it,” Horwitz said. “But the stadium is closed.”

Thanks to The Eddie Kranepool Society.