The Rise and Fall of the Polo Grounds

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@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

*One correction, the Giants were known as the “Gothams” previously at the first Polo Grounds, the Metropolitans were a separate Franchise who played there.

@christophersorrentino1271 2 года назад

Quite an added attraction was the fact that in about the distance of a mile, a short walk over the McCombs Dam Bridge, over the Harlem River, is Yankeee Stadium. To add to the charm of the venue is the fact that right up the block ( two blocks??) is the playground where the Rucker Games are held. That the event where great former city basketball ball legends, former pros or not , play a WILD playground version of BB

@eddiejc1 2 года назад

That's where the Mets get their name. Also, although the Mets are named after the Metropolitans, that was never their name. The official name of the New York Mets IS the "New York Mets."

@eddiejc1 2 года назад

@@christophersorrentino1271 I believe that short walk is the real reason why the upper deck at the Polo Grounds was extended all the way to center field----to block out the view of Yankee Stadium. Speaking of blocking views, one of the big reasons for the upper deck in the first place (which I think was originally built in the pre-1912 Polo Grounds) was not just to increase capacity but to block the view of the playing field from people standing on Coogan's Bluff behind the ballpark. In 1908, there was a pivotal game at the Polo Grounds played the last day of the year to decide the National League pennant. Although 30,000 were in the stands (which was a HUGE number in the 1900's) there were over a 100,000 fans watching the game from Coogan's Bluff.

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

@@christophersorrentino1271 yankee stadium was like a 10 minute walk from the polo grounds just walk over macoombs dam bridge and your there

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

@@eddiejc1 I heard yankee stadium was built there to piss off the giants who evicted them !

@machinesofgod 2 года назад

I'm a huge SF Giants fan and I once visited where the Polo Grounds used to be. There is also a plaque that marks the approximate location of home plate at the Polo Grounds housing.

@Jpk21 2 года назад

Same, the area around the plaque was pretty scary

@machinesofgod 2 года назад

@@Jpk21 Yeah, go during daytime.

@themaestro3034 2 года назад

Im a huge SF fan too. But I grew up in CT and going to yankee games on weekends at their old stadium (which was a total dump despite the history and fanfare). Ive seen the plaque too. Pretty cool.

@SadyGbrotha19 2 года назад

Let’s go Giants me too

@halah34 2 года назад

There’s a similar setup at the site of the old Atlanta-Fulton County stadium. It’s now a parking lot, but the diamond is painted on the pavement, and there’s a “Hank Aaron wall” marking the spot of his famous home run.

@warrenkatz1469 2 года назад

my father was a big Brooklyn Dodger fan I went to the polo grounds In 1957 with him to see the Dodgers and Giants .I was 7 .Jonny antonelli against don drysdale .the Dodgers won 1 to 0 After the game they let you walk on the field to exit .I still remember looking up at stands and the lights . Never forget it after all these years.

@robertflowers6621 2 года назад

I've been on the field at 5 different major league ballparks, the 4 most memorable of which being the old parks: Tiger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park, and Fenway Park. Nothing beats a stroll where legends once played!

@samuelmoulds1016 Год назад

@@robertflowers6621 yeah, Robert, I have been on 4. took a drink from the cubbies' electric water cooler in Wrigley! and swung Rod Carew's bat in Minnesota!!! GOOD TIMES!! I AM sooooh sorry I never ran the bases with the kids after a Rockies game! and I which I had stepped off in 'paces' at Fenway Park from home to the left field wall to see how far it was! Gaylord Perry said he stepped it off and it wasn't 300 feet!!!

@tommyputyouonpyo2636 Год назад

1957!??!?! My mom wasn’t even born. God bless you my elder

@jimc.goodfellas 2 года назад

As a huge fan of old time baseball I would have loved to have gone to a game at the Polo Grounds

@alonenjersey Год назад

Same here. Even though it was never designed for baseball.

@1977TA Год назад

The Polo Grounds should have been preserved. So much sports history was written there. Imagine being able to visit today and see the old baseball diamond and walk in the outfield where Willie Mays made that legendary catch.

@steveeliscu1254 2 года назад

Yankee Stadium on the hill across the river. And I remember looking down into the Polo Grounds from outside Yankee Stadium when I was a kid. So close together!

@adlilzafri2322 2 года назад

As an MLB The Show player, this stadium is the bane of my existence

@patrickwagner6247 2 года назад

One of MLB's former ballparks I wish I could have watched a game at.

@hyzercreek 2 года назад

1:23 Babe Ruth hit 54 and 59 HR in the polo grounds, which had 450 foot fence in right field, before Yankee Stadium was built. This makes his superman.

@brianwilcox3478 4 месяца назад

actually, the fence down the line in the polo grounds was 256 both before and after the 1911 fire. But the fence ran parallel to the line between home plate and second base. The stadium giveth and it takes away. 433 before the fire and varying between 475 and 488 after. the same could be said about the left feild fence after the fire. running parallel to the line between home and second. It was not like that before the fire. you can always tell before . no second deck out to nearly centerfield., I do believe Ruth reached the centerfield bleachers before the outfeild dimensions changed. perhaps twice. .Both landed to the right of dead center.

@hyzercreek 4 месяца назад

@@brianwilcox3478 So, all that in reply to the period 1920 to 1923? That's when Ruth played there.

@JC42023 2 года назад

When I was a kid I received a set of mini baseball stadium replicas; included were Wrigley, Fenway, and the original Yankee Stadium (this being when it was still open), along with Ebbets Field, Tiger Stadium and-of course-the Polo Grounds. I knew about the Giants having been in NY, but I didn't know where they played, and was amazed at how much their stadium resembled a football stadium more than baseball

@leftymcnally6913 2 года назад

483ft to dead center when the Giants played there, and 475ft when the Mets played in '62 and '63. I'm always trying to find pictures, and documentation on the 2nd Polo Grounds, later known as Manhattan field. It was an odd, but interesting little park with very strange dimensions that somehow managed to make dead center the most shallow part of the outfield

@scottbilger9294 2 года назад

He scarcely mentioned the Mets. Not even that it was their original ballpark.

@hyzercreek 2 года назад

And Babe Ruth played there before Yankee Stadium was built, he hit 54 and 59 HR there to that monster 450 foot fence. Look at 1:23

@TheBatugan77 2 года назад

@@scottbilger9294 Psssh. Mets. Psssh. Piddly pissants. Psssh.

@TheBatugan77 Год назад

@@scottbilger9294 Psssh. Mets. Psssh.

@TheBatugan77 Год назад

@@scottbilger9294 Psssh. Mets. GivesAShit?

@TheTechGuy45 2 года назад

That Willy Mays Catch was 436 ft long

@TheBatugan77 Год назад

In other words, it would be impossible in any stadium standing today.

@user-em4wh5ji3w 8 месяцев назад

That game ended in a 280 foot walkoff home run lol

@MichaelForte-jn5pn 7 месяцев назад

@user-em4wh5ji3w yeah... how ironic is that?

@markegan2480 11 месяцев назад

She was an important part of baseball history, let her not be forgotten

@David-yw2lv Месяц назад

It should have been preserved as a historical landmark.

@chrisweidner4768 2 года назад

All I remember as a kid was that Lou Brock hit one 460 feet off of Al Jackson. Lou Brock was a tremendous athlete.

@brianwilcox3478 4 месяца назад

Yes Lou was one of only 4 players that reached the centerfeild bleachers in its final configuration

@saulchapnick1566 3 месяца назад

Al Jackson. I remember that name and saw him pitch. He was a perennial twenty game loser. Us Mets fans always cheered (not jeered) for him because of that.

@chrisweidner4768 3 месяца назад

@@saulchapnick1566 67-99, lifetime 3.98 ERA. Yikes😁His Mets numbers weren’t good. 10 year MLB career not too shabby.

@saulchapnick1566 3 месяца назад

@@chrisweidner4768 Yes. He was an enigma. Mets fans loved him. The Mets yearbook had a huge two page spread about him.

@merccadoosis8847 2 года назад

I saw one Mets game there in 1963 in the stadium's final year. It had an awesome baseball atmosphere.

@soaringvulture 2 года назад

The atmosphere was from the fans. Everyone was intent on the game. Fenway's like that too.

@kapacitybrooklyn9235 Год назад

I play at this field most of the time in mlb the show for PS5 - this was the most stood out stadium that ever existed! I wish they never destroyed it - I could only imagine how it would look now

@bflathead 2 года назад

Excellent video. I was born in 58 so I missed this era. If you can do a video on Dexter Park in Cypress Hills. Many great players passed through this park. Thank you

@MagSeven7 2 года назад

i can remember goint to the Polo Grounds to see the original Mets play. Incredible that it was over 480 feet to dead center. If I remember correctly, the club house was located in a portion of the stadium in center field so the players had to walk all the way out there to get to their locker rooms. I remember the video of Bobby Thompsons home run and Ralph Branca and the rest of the Dodgers having to walk all the way out there as the Giants celebrated winnig the pennant. Talk about adding to the pain! I grew up playing baseball in Roosevelt Stadium in Union City, NJ which had similar, all though not quite, as big as the Polo Grounds. I believe Roosevelt Stadium was 460 to dead center and under 300, at least down the right field line. Great video. Thanks!

@kevinmiller6380 2 года назад

Bob Kaden-Don't forget the 1951 Giants would not have erased the 13.5 game deficit to the crosstown Brooklyn Dodgers had it not been for the fact they cheated by sign stealing, much like the 2017 Astros did.

@MagSeven7 2 года назад

@@kevinmiller6380 Geez. I hadn't heard that. You really think they made up 13.5 games just by stealing signs? I would imagine it took some collapse by the Dodgers too. I was only 3 when he hit this homerun so I don't remember the details of that season. Once Mantle came along, I was a Yankees fan for life!

@Noodle_Train 2 года назад

Thanks for making this! I always love learning more about the past of the Giants

@crazyDale3 2 года назад

Hey forgotten places! I have a quick video suggestion, I think you should make a video on the rise of Orlando. Me and my grandparents were driving through Orlando and noticed just how much it has grown. They said it was nothing but orange groves and trailer parks until Disney came in. Keep up the great work on your videos!

@MichaelForte-jn5pn 7 месяцев назад

I've been living in Orlando for 50 years...I remember how u could drive by orange groves in the spring and get :high" on the smell of the orange blossoms...when the grove owners died their kids sold the groves to developers who built homes....we used to have spring training baseball at Tinker Field...made a lot of friends with the snow birds going to the games for 3 bucks...I never knew life here before Disney but it was great memories....great people ...

@joemckim1183 2 года назад

The Polo Grounds is the only MLB stadium to be the primary home stadium for 3 different teams with Giants, Yankees and Mets. I believe County Stadium in Milwaukee has hosted Braves, Brewers and White Sox games but the White Sox it was just for a handful of games for a few years, never their primary home stadium.

@TPTGopher 2 года назад

What's crazy about the Polo Grounds is, with its what we would consider insane (middle-school foul lines, gargantuan CF) dimensions, the two plays it's best known for would be impossible today: the Shot Heard 'Round the World would be off the Monster at Fenway and a routine fly ball anywhere else, while the smash that Willie May's ran down and Caught would be so far gone that the center fielder wouldn't even bother turning around, much less giving chase.

@guidonagle5075 2 года назад

As a west-coast, Giants forever fan, I always wonder: if Willie Mays had played his entire career with the tiny dimensions of Yankee Stadium - 8' wall included - how many HRs would he have hit? And conversely, if the Babe had played in the Polo Grounds - and Candlestick (with the winds blowing in) - how many would he have hit? Granted, Ruth played a far shorter career, but if the ballparks were flipped, I could easily imagine their HR totals would also flip. Mays would have 714. (And Bonds might have hit 73 in Yankee Stadium WITHOUT the juice).

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

@@guidonagle5075 are you nuts the old yankee stadium was the worst right handed hitters park in baseball history mays would hit very few there !

@guidonagle5075 2 года назад

@@ernestpassaro9663 The walls at Old Yankee were only 10 feet tall. Mays hit alot to straightaway center - 480' in the Polo Grounds. At Candlestick, when he played there, center field was not closed in and the winds came off the Bay and denied many homers to Mays, McCovey, et. al.

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

@@guidonagle5075 mays never hit a hr to centerfield at the polo grounds !

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

The polo grounds was a better right handed hitters park than the original Yankee stadium when opened in 1923 it was 487 feet to centerfield 500 ft to left center field and then gradually reduced to 461 feet to centerfield and 457 feet to left center field DiMaggio lost countless hrs there and so would mays !

@cacawsthelaw 2 года назад

my favorite place to play on mlb the show, haha

@TheWill.Suttie45 2 года назад

Me too

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

Polo grounds was great if you were a dead pull hitter !

@flashman8835 9 месяцев назад

I remember being overwhelmed by the size and scope of this stadium in May of 1962 as i watched from the cheap seats in left field as the METS dropped 2 to the DODGERS on their return to the east. Of all the features of the plant, I think I was impressed the most by the fact that the visitors bullpen was on the warning track just below us.

@BaseballisEverything 2 года назад

Gone but never Forgotten!

@rawhydemusic8620 2 года назад

The Bobby Thomson home run was pretty famous too. THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!!

@thgtchr6815 2 года назад

I am a lifetime baseball fan, and I have heard about the Polo Grounds from the beginning, but this is the first article, story, or video that I have ever seen or heard about the facility itself.

@johngaines5905 2 месяца назад

Went to a Mets - Dodgers game in July of 1962, the first year of expansion Mets . Dodgers won by 17-2 , Unforgettable!!

@stevewixom9311 2 года назад

I'd give almost anything to have been able to see a ballgame there.. a Dodger/Giants game would have been awesome.

@tysonstransitcam2190 2 года назад

July-August 1958 saw an event that filled both te Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, a commemorative plaque can be found on the Monument Walk

@wessew6185 2 года назад

Jehovah's Witnesses international convention.

@tysonstransitcam2190 2 года назад

@@wessew6185 Correct! Largest attended event in Yankee Stadium history. That also filled the Polo Grounds.

@wessew6185 2 года назад

@@tysonstransitcam2190 I was there.

@FrankinDallas 10 месяцев назад

I saw a Mets game in Polo Grounds during their first year. Also went to a NY Titans football game. The stadium looked like it was about to fall down.

@Dave-ti2ue Год назад

There were some famous boxing matches there: Dempsey/Firpo, Louis/Conn 1 and the rematch of Patterson/Johansson.

@PanPanOB 2 года назад

Home run Derby at polo ground lol. You're lucky to pull them down the line ahaha

@JusNoBS420 Год назад

What an unique baseball park. It’s a playable stadium in MLB The Show

@paulhennessey51 2 года назад

My father and grandfather were both NY Giants fans, and took me to games in the early 1960s when the Mets played there (terrible teams, but fun banner parades and Casey Stengel humor). I remember ALMOST snagging a foul ball, which slid beneath my rickety seat, and also recall sitting in outfield seats with impeded site lines, where you could only see part of the infield.

@jimmym2486 2 года назад

I “went” to the Polo Grounds a few weeks ago when I time traveled via Classic Baseball on the Radio for a Sunday 1963!Doubleheader ( If I don’t know what happened it’s live no matter how many years later) between the Mets and Pirates. In reality The Polo Grounds was before

@robertthomas5196 2 года назад

Leaving a piece of the stairway. Cool.

@Raptorman0909 2 года назад

Well the Polo Grounds had the kind of character that simply doesn't exist in todays stadiums. They were more intimate with the fans more connected to the players. But, modern stadiums have box sections for the wealthy, large screens to show replays and scores, and are generally better at protecting the spectators from the weather.

@samuelmoulds1016 Год назад

aaah...actually...I wish you could see a game at Coors Field! my first game there, I was sitting on the 3rd base side about 20 rows from the field. on a close play, I looked at the HUGE scoreboard for the 'replay'. there was none! I turned to the fans close to me and said, "Don't they show replays on controversial plays!!?!" I was told to look above me. on the deck above us was a tv monitor every 20 feet showing EVERY replay!! GOOD TIMES!!!

@michaelmarino3013 2 года назад

I seen tweets at the poll grounds.i was a young gamer school kid with a packed lunch on the bus with the local playground summer for kids.i loved it.

@terencehill2320 2 года назад

I saw what you did with that one photo fairly early on. You didnt want to show the man giving the finger that looked like a cigar but was indeed the bird.

@johndoe7741 2 года назад

The field of dreams game was such a success, mlb needs to rebuild a replica stadium (actual location tbd) and play one game there every year. I’m sure they would need to make some ADA and other adjustments for safety but otherwise make it exactly the same. The demand would be massive

@WALTERBROADDUS 3 месяца назад

Those dimensions are ridiculous. How did anyone score?

@baxatakbaxatak2014 2 года назад

Oh, never poopoo a nickel, Lisa! A nickel will get you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake, AND a newsreel, with enough change to take the trolley from Battery Park to the Polo Grounds!

@stevenvitte 2 года назад

Well, the "Fall" part of the Polo Grounds wasn't really its own fault at all. Ballpark designs were rapidly changing in the 1960's, and sadly settled into the Cookie Cutter dimensions that MLB has never gone away from since. A farfetched theory of mine is that if they really wanted to, the Mets could have spent more than enough money to renovate the Polo Grounds to the point where they wouldn't have needed Shea Stadium in the first place. It's sad to know that MLB (and any organized baseball league for that matter) will never try bold and daring ballpark dimensions like the Polo Grounds again, because I believe that is one of the key things sorely affecting baseball's popularity. The sport has become unimaginative, unfriendly, and over the top greedy against the fans.

@moosecat 2 года назад

From what I gather, the Polo Grounds was in pretty rough shape by the time the Giants left in '57, and it only would have gotten worse. And, as the narrator mentioned, the neighborhood had changed, too. You can build the greatest stadium ever, but if fans don't feel safe going to the game, they're not going to go.

@ckersh74 2 года назад

There is no way the Mets could have saved the Polo Grounds. The Yankees redid Yankee Stadium after 1973, to the tune of $100 mil (in 1973 dollars). Refurbishing the Polo Grounds would likely have cost twice to three times that amount. That's what a new stadium cost 25 years later. Had the Mets stayed in the Polo Grounds even close to 1970, there would likely have been a structural failure at the park that would have been a humanitarian disaster that would resemble soccer riots in 3rd world countries. The Polo Grounds needed to be demolished from a safety standpoint.

@moosecat 2 года назад

@@ckersh74 New York winters are tough on people and things alike...

@SK-lt1so 2 года назад

And we MUST bring back "handlebar mustaches".

@alanstrong55 2 года назад

This is where Floyd Patterson regained the World Heavyweight title from Ingemar Johansson. Pow!

@sawyerreacts1938 7 месяцев назад

They should rebuild the polo grounds in real life and inter league series

@garymorris1856 2 года назад

Very interesting, thank you for posting this.

@garymorris1856 2 года назад

I have always been interested in these old ballparks, such as Sportman's Park, Ebbets Field, Forbes Field, Crosley Field Shibe Park Braves Field in Boston Briggs in Detroit, etc.

@Yankeesjetsfan71 2 года назад

Great video. Just one correction, the Jets & Titans were the same franchise.

@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

I know, i wasnt claiming them to be separate

@danielverges 2 года назад

I just love your content

@footballtalkwithfreddy8684 2 года назад

The best and worst ball park in mlb the show

@kevinkhoy7171 2 года назад

Well Done!

@josephstevens9888 2 года назад

Interesting video

@khkartc 2 года назад

I don’t know how long Bobby Thomsen’s famous pennant-winning home run has been estimated to have been, but I’ve always assumed it wouldn’t have even _been_ a home run in another ballpark.

@trapezemusic Год назад

It was a line drive that exited the field right above the 315 mark.

@deepcosmiclove Год назад

It wsa a sinking line-drive that might have been a homerun at Yankee Stadium down the line but would had to have beaten the leftfielder to the fence; like Ed Bailey's homerun in the 9th inning or the 62' WS to right field at Yankee Stadium. The low line-drive just beat Roger Maris to the fence at the 296' sighn.

@trapezemusic Год назад

@@deepcosmiclove Please note that the height of the outfield walls at the Polo Grounds was unusually high. No outfielder could reach the top of those walls. Meanwhile, the leftfield and right field fences down the lines at Yankee Stadium were probably the lowest in the majors.

@christopherallen9580 2 года назад

Cool video!

@5050bjnash 2 года назад

I looked cause someone picked this stadium on the show 22 lol

@carspiv 2 года назад

You didn’t mention dozens of major boxing matches, including 5 world championship fights from June to September of 1923, one of the most dynamic periods in the history of what was arguably the second most popular sport in the U. S. at the time. And this was a time when there were 8 major weight divisions and…..GASP…only ONE CHAMP PER DIVISION! The last fight held there was the second Patterson-Johansson fight, where Patterson because the first heavyweight champ to regain the title.

@anthonyd6370 3 месяца назад

another correction ,mets jets and titans all playing there? titan would become jets!

@jmed412 2 года назад

The giants had originally planned to move to Minnesota

@baberuthbaseballhistory1018 Год назад

Oh! You, Babe Ruth! The Building and Opening of Old Yankee Stadium ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GP0rPJfrH90.html This new music video celebrates the building and opening of The House That Ruth Built. The Yankees first played there 100 years ago today, on April 18, 1923 - the most sensational Opening Day in baseball history - at the greatest stadium since the Coliseum of Rome.

@alanask9939 2 года назад

fun to imagine how the Giants would've done these last 65 years if the moved to and remained in Minneapolis. Think of the ripple effect that would have on the rest of MLB

@vicepresidentmikepence889 2 года назад

2:42. He says Mets, jets, and Titans, as if it's three different teams. The Titans and jets are the same team

@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

Thats your interpretation, it is not what I meant…

@Cosmo-Kramer 2 года назад

Not a very intimate viewing experience for those along the baselines or behind home plate. The distance from the stands to those lines had to be the longest of any ballpark in the game.

@holdenmcgroin9774 2 года назад

NYC did not care about the giants and dodgers as long as the Yankees were always winning. NYC will always bend over backwards for the Yankees. Polo grounds and ebbets field were horrible stadiums.

@ckersh74 2 года назад

They were also arrogant enough to believe that no team would ever leave the almighty New York. We see how well that turned out.

@David-yw2lv Месяц назад

Polo Grounds looked more like it was designed for football than baseball.It was rectangular.

@TonysMusic1974 2 года назад

2:40 . . . you said "Jets AND Titans . . . " The Jets WERE the Titans. you make it seem as though it is two different franchises.

@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

Seem is the word, not the intent…

@ProfitPathTV-zf6je 6 месяцев назад

Jets and Titans are the SAME franchise. It just changed names.

@Honoryoursystem Год назад

Mets, Jets and titans? Titans & Jets are the same no?

@adamsmith583 2 года назад

Very neat

@Jabberstax 2 года назад

It's strange how Americans sports teams move cities so often. I don't know of any other country where teams move around like that.

@moosecat 2 года назад

You certainly have a point. However, please keep in mind that prior to the 1950s, Major League Baseball didn't have any teams further west than St. Louis, MO, only five of the 16 teams were in a city by themselves, and teams traveled primarily by train. With air travel becoming faster and more economical, it made sense for the "second" teams (in terms of attendance) in each city to find greener pastures.

@peatyboweaty 2 года назад

The Jets and the Titans are the same franchise. They changed their name from the Titans to the Jets in 1963.

@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

I know

@joeybee1914 2 года назад

Forgotten places? The Polo Grounds?

@BaileyGoldstein 2 года назад

Joe Perra is that you?

@mikeburtnick6137 2 года назад

Jets "multiple championships". Is this a troll or are you counting the 68 AFL and Super bowls as 2 championships?

@stevieg7672 2 года назад

He said the New York Football Giants, which makes sense as they won most of their pre-Super Bowl Championships at that venue. Also, the Jets won that championship at Shea, as 1968 was the year the housing projects that occupy the former stadium were completed.

@deepcosmiclove 2 года назад

The Giants were never known as the "New York Baseball Giants."

@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

I said that to differentiate between them and the football giants

@deepcosmiclove 2 года назад

@@forgottenplaces9780 I understand. Most people don't know it but the NY Giants official name was “The National Exhibition Company.” Some oldtimers still call the football team the "NY Football Giants." The "St. Louis Football Cardinals" was another one. They are of course long gone. The Polo Grounds was a nice place to watch a game, especially from the upper deck. "A Day in the Bleachers" by Arnold Hano is one you'd probably like about the 1st game of the 54 Series.

@willobama3297 2 года назад

100

@mickeysealtoe9719 Месяц назад

Dems B Demming. Vote blue and this could be you....

@dennisznaniecke490 Год назад

Worst architecture in bb history

@deemcevoy353 2 года назад

The Polo Grounds also hosted the Championship game of Gaelic Football in 1947. The game between Kerry and Cavan was the first and only time the All Ireland final was played outside Ireland.

@bdautch20 2 года назад

The Jets and the Titans are the same franchise; they changed their name to Jets in 1963.

@forgottenplaces9780 2 года назад

I know

@TheBatugan77 Год назад

He knows.

@aresef 2 года назад

I wish we had a ballpark with these kinds of bananas dimensions today.

@jtcbrt 2 года назад

Went to several games there in '62 & '63 as a 10 & 11 year old Mets fan. 60 years later I'm still true to the Orange & Blue.

@porcelinaofvastoceans 2 года назад

Why did you become a Mets fans? Was your dad a Giants fan and became a Mets fan after they left?

@jtcbrt 2 года назад

@@porcelinaofvastoceans You know it.

@alonenjersey 11 месяцев назад

Stay true to the very end fellow longtime baseball fan.

@platoon1026 2 года назад

My dad would take me to the Polo Grounds in late 40s. Always sat in right field seats; close enough to talk the players. Great time.

@caldwelljackson9482 2 года назад

My dad took me to the Polo Grounds in the early 1950s to see the Giants, my favorite team at that time, play the Pittsburgh Pirates. I saw my favorite baseball player, Willie Mays, make a fantastic, over the shoulder catch to take away an extra base hit. Wow, what special memories, a real treat for a youngster!

@scottymacdewder5229 2 года назад

One of the most iconic catches in the history of the game...

@NathanDav42 2 года назад

@@scottymacdewder5229 You mean the style of catch? Because I don’t know of a famous catch Willie Mays made against the Pirates. I know of THE Catch from game 1 of the 1954 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, though.

@scottymacdewder5229 2 года назад

@@NathanDav42 I thought he was referring to "the catch" forgive me, I was born in the 80s

@soaringvulture 2 года назад

Yeah, Willie would do that every other game. It was a real thrill to watch Mays in center field at the Polo Grounds. Much later, when the Giants played the Mets in the Polo Grounds, I saw Felipe Alou hit a moon shot to center field that was caught right in front of the fence. A 470 foot flyout.

@NathanDav42 2 года назад

@@scottymacdewder5229 No harm, no foul! I’m from the 80s as well!

@voxmarsh6458 2 года назад

As a kid one of the things that frightened me was passing the polo grounds when the demolition was happening. Really made me sad.

@TheBatugan77 Год назад

I was too young to remember. But I've seen pictures, and they look horrible.

@alonenjersey 11 месяцев назад

The demolition of any ballpark is sad.

@BELCAN57 2 года назад

A stadium with character.

@Chris55433 2 года назад

I would LOVE to see the polo grounds rebuilt. The Mets missed an opportunity when they build Citi Field. The Field of Dreams game proved the fans crave nostalgia, and a rebuilt polo grounds would have drawn HUGE.

@NathanDav42 2 года назад

The Mets primarily took the old Dodgers fanbase, while the Giants fanbase mostly eventually migrated to the Yankees. The Yankees are WAY more popular in Manhattan, so it’d have made less sense for the Mets to move there. If the Mets were going to honor NY baseball history while trying to stay closer to their primary fanbase (Queens and Long Island), it’d make more sense to move to Brooklyn and try to reclaim it from Yankee encroachment. But as it stands, outside of Queens I don’t know of anywhere else in the NYC Metro that has more Mets fans than Yankee fans. I grew up on Long Island and my schools always had more Yankee fans than Mets fans. If Brooklyn also has more Yankees fans, then maybe staying in Queens was truly best?

@chrishowell4845 Год назад

If a new Polo Grounds were built in the same configuration, it would have to be wide enough so the left and right field dimensions would be at least 330 feet, and of course, the center field distance would have to be a lot shorter than 475 feet lol

@amazing50000 Год назад

The green seats in Citi Field pays homage to the green seats that was in The Polo Grounds, while the outside of Citi Field pays homage to some of the features of Ebbets Field.

@kevinmiller6380 9 месяцев назад

Chris-And I'm sure the same thing could be said about Ebbets Field if it was rebuilt.

@WALTERBROADDUS 3 месяца назад

Those field dimensions are horrible.

@el_puma_real 2 года назад

SF Giants fan here, thanks for this. I love hearing and seeing the history of the franchise from its original roots in NYC.

@RCfromtheNYC 2 года назад

Big fact: the main reason the Giants moved out west is that the Dodgers had made a handshake deal to move to L.A. and the league would only approve the relocation if another team went with them. The owners of both teams got together and struck a deal with the league, so they both went out west the same season.

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

Yes the dodgers were also playing some of their 1956 and 1957 home games at Roosevelt stadium in Jersey City using that as leverage the giants were having trouble drawing but the dodgers were even richer than the Yankees they left New York City to make more money !

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

O’Malley wanted Moses to condemn the land where the Barclays center stands today and was going to use private money to build a new stadium for the dodgers Moses said no and that was it LA here we come !

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

Yes it wouldn’t have worked with only one team so he conned stoneham to come with him originally the giants were going to Minneapolis

@alanask9939 2 года назад

@@ernestpassaro9663 In St Louis Park MN where I grew up they have a park named "Candlestick" which was the land where the Giants first planned to build their new stadium after moving to the Minneapolis area.

@ernestpassaro9663 2 года назад

@@alanask9939 the giants had a triple a team in Minneapolis and held territorial rights there so they were prepared to move there but O’Malley conned stoneham into moving to California with him !

@robloxvids2233 2 года назад

I just bought MLB The Show 2022 and you can play at this field. It's really fun. I've hit 440 ft drives to dead center that were (barely) caught for outs but if you pull it down the lines it's like 250! Fun ripping liners off the facade or hitting moonshots onto the roof. They have a bunch of old parks, including Sportsman's Park which my dad and grandpa went to before Busch Stadium I was built in the mid-'60s.

@samdoggtheinfamous253 2 года назад

That was a great one to do you should do Ebbetts field next and still think maybe you can do memorial stadium in Baltimore and the RCA dome too?

@jasonleetaiwan 2 года назад

Seems like the Giants should have stayed in New York. Their net worth would be higher than it would be in San Francisco today most likely. I guess low attendance in 1957 forced them to do it.

@gregorykrug8034 2 года назад

I wish current stadiums would have a CF wall as far back as the one in the Polo Grounds. Nowadays, owners are more worried about casual fans cheering for home runs.

@TheWill.Suttie45 2 года назад

Waited for this vid forever

@timbrady9986 2 года назад

Isn't the Polo Grounds also the place in 1951 when " the Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant".

@pcz5233 2 года назад

How about Roosevelt Stadium. Jersey City, NJ

@Son-Of-David1990 2 года назад

0:54 my life long question for 30 years of what a "met" has finally been answered. Ahhhhhh

@danbratten3103 Год назад

The baseball Giants were planning on moving to the Twin Cites in Minnesota, then Walter O'Malley decided to move the Dodgers to L.A. MLB wouldn't allow it unless another NL team went to California with them. Thus the Giants moved to San Francisco.

@SLagonia 2 года назад

Quick corrections; It wasn't actually IN Central Park - It was across 110th st, adjacent to Central Park. Second, saying that they moved from Central Park to Manhattan is redundant. Central Park is in Manhattan.

@p.a.paolino9505 Год назад

Does anyone know if anyone hit a homer to dead center field? I know in the old Yankee stadium when center field was 461, Mickey Mantle and Bill Skowren would bet who would hit the most homers over the center field fence during the season.