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If you are going to ballyhoo Bonds for the Hall of Fame then you have to also do it for others. Maybe what they should have is a separate wing that has people like Barry Bond, Pete Rose, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa and others who cheated. Yep, show their records and their stats, but keep them away from those who did not cheat. It is an unfair comparison to compare one who cheated like heck next to a player who did not. Also, get Bud Selig out of the Hall. He is nothing more than a bean counter. By the way, all of these people knew going in that they were cheating and if they got caught they would be banned.

I won't subscribe to any sports themed content the pluralizes RBI.

It’s a bs stat. There’s subjectivity in the formula.

Tiger Stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull. Watched Nolan Ryan hurl a no-hitter against the Tigers there on July 15, 1973. I was 9 years old...

As a Cubs fan we love him

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Thanks for this video. Growing up in South Carolina I became a Cubs fan around 1987 watching on WGN. I can’t imagine there will ever be another Harry Caray. Just the pure excitement in his voice when the Cubs would walk it off gives you goosebumps. He was a huge part of my childhood. I miss him so much. I absolutely hate that he didn’t see the Cubs win it all.

Never knew about the Alabama offer.

I think Joe Adcock hit a homer to center field at the Polo Grounds

It is still sad to think the Giants and Dodgers left. What a rivalry especially in the '50's

What about Hsl Chase?

And this stadium is soooooo annoying to play on In MLB the show

Too bad Walter Johnson was retired in 1933. He would have participated in that World Series, even though the Senators lost that Series to the same New York Giants. Unfortunately the 1924 World Series was the only one won by the team while still based in Washington. And it would be another 86 years before Washington would get another World Series championship as the Nationals (the former Montreal Expos) won, beating the cheating Houston Astros.

Let us not forget the great ballparks in history, Baseball, the greatest game ever invented

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⚾️ Griffith Stadium⚾️! My long gone Washington Senators “W”

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of having a brief conversation with one of the starting pitchers of the last MLB game held at the Polo Grounds.

Wait just one second now, isn't the introduction the tune of I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles? The West Ham Football Club theme song?

Oh, Classic, Huh?

I grew up driving 140 miles from central Illinois to old Comiskey Park at 35th and Shield on the south side of Chicago with my parents for virtually every Sunday doubleheader. July 20, 1969, was the most memorable as the announcement of the landing on the moon was made; the Bill Veech exploding scoreboard let loose more fireworks than a typical small town on the 4th of July. This went on for several minutes, and the plate umpire would try to get the game started again. Another volley would light up the sky.

The day that the Senators won that series (10-10-24), was the day that my father was born! My grandad wanted to name him Walter Johnson, but my grandma wasn't having ANY of that!! 😄

As a lifetime Bosox fan my favorite park has always been Fenway, my first trip was in 2007 against the Oakland A’s. Walking through the concourse and out into the right field grandstands near pesky pole for a 8 year old at the time felt like a dream. For the now almost 15 times i’ve been to Fenway I’m always reminded of the wonder and history that is Fenway Park.

I have to say because it's true in cricket which uses a hard ball no gloves exactly keeper but even then the more to expand the catching area. I lived in America for a year and on a couple occasions walk past people playing baseball and the people we're very surprised that I could catch bare handed Very different between two very similar sports

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Gandil actually said, late in life, that they were guilty of fixing the games, and conspiracy with gamblers. He said the players later decided to try to win, but still deserved what punishment they got. It was an interview he gave late in life... I think for Sport magazine.

My gramps was born and raised in Pittsburgh, he was three when they won this World Series! I would have told him I was rooting for Johnson and the Senators to win it all… 😅

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100000000% agree

The new stadium the football Giants moved to was Yankee Stadium.

informative!

My late father was devastated ( as were millions of other Dodger fans) when they left Brooklyn, In 1960 he became a proud member of the FDNY. When the Mets came to town in 1962, management went to firehouses and police precincts and gave tickets away for the new team. I was almost 3 when he took me. The only things I remember is the long ride from Brooklyn and how huge the Polo Grounds were.

You hit the nail on the head as to why I'm boycotting MLB until Bonds gets into the HOF.

Growing up in the New York area and being a Yankees fan most of the games I attended were at Yankee Stadium, the original one. I did see the Mets play at the Polo Grounds and the NY Titans too. The place seemed old and huge as most of the older stadiums were. There were long catwalks above each level and I remember someone spilling mustard all over the back of a guy in front of us.

It's sad the polo grounds is gone so much history there it's too bad it wasn't better cared for

But if they intended it for baseball, why did it have such odd dimensions for baseball?

Crosley field

Nice job on the video, I learned some things.

Saw your response to someones comment. And I must say, Yes Please! Into turning the history of ballparks into a series. Its awesome to hear about them. The who, what, where and when. Great content.

nice

Saw my first game there on 30 May 1962 on the Dodgers first return to the city since leaving Brooklyn vs Mets . Memorial day DH, big crowd, Sandy Koufax vs Jay Hook (guess who won). Short lines, 483ft to center, visitors bullpen on the left field warning track, a squadron of pigeons inhabited the rafters above the left field cheap seat, the smell of cigar smoke on the open air. Still have the scorecard.. Amazing ball park!

this was a Fantastic Video one of My Favorite fields was the King Dome

They building so many of these it lost its luster… sad to say

For me, it's a tie between Exhibition Stadium and the Skydome. I saw my first baseball game at the Dome, and everything was so new, and exciting. But, my family would often make the trip to the CNE and later, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. I remember Dad pointing out the Ex and telling me the Blue Jays played there. It was so cool to see something I'd only heard about on the radio in real life! In its later years, it became a parking lot for the Royal. I still wish id have had the guts to hop a fence or go into the old dugouts and see what was still there to be seen

My Dad took me to see my first baseball game when I was 5. After the game we walked out to the pitcher's mound where I shook hands with Willie Mays and other players. In 1948 my Dad bought season tickets to the football Giants which my family and I still own today.

You never mentioned the third most famous baseball play at the Polo Ground (I believe the 3rd iteration), that being the Merkle boner play

I was too young to see the Giants play at the Polo Grounds, but I saw the Mets play the Dodgers on a Friday night in July of 1963. It was the first time I saw Sandy Koufax pitch live and in person, and he shut the Mets out and struck out something like 13 batters. He gave up one hard hit ball all night, a pitch that Jim Hickman pulled into the left-center gap and got a triple.

Joe Louis, the world heavyweight boxing champion, fought at the Polo Grounds in New York City multiple times, including in 1941 against Billy Conn and Lou Nova.

I saw the Titans and the Mets play there, as a kid. Centerfield was so deep; it was almost impossible to hit a home run there.