In the 60s my friends and I were only 12 or 13 years old and we would go by ourselves to Yankee stadium from New Jersey. Our parents never worried and ask if we had a good time upon coming home. My 1st time at the Stadium Mickey Mantle hit a home run in bottom of 1st.
I smiled when I read your post. My brother and I were young kids in the 1960s too, and we were also from NJ. Starting in the mid '60s, my Dad would drop my brother and I off at the stadium while he would visit all the relatives still living in NYC. We would often go to doubleheaders, which means we were by ourselves for up to 6 hours (in 1966 my brother was 12, I was 10). Nothing bad ever happened, and no one worried at all about us (including my mom). You know exactly what I'm talking about...
@@markb20 sure do my friend. Remember coming home sometimes we would eat hamburgers at a Port Authority snack bar or play Arcade games on 42nd street. What great memories we shared back then.
8:33 - notice all the African-Americans. Babe Ruth would go on barnstorming tours often against african-american teams and it's possible that photo is from one of those games. A true legend.
I was blessed enough to go to a game at THE Yankee Stadium, June 10, 1967, a week before my 11th birthday. Yankees got beat bad by Chicago, but I didn't care, I've always been a Giants fan, and besides, I got to see a game at the House That Ruth Built!
Nice video of same book i have... Lol... The images are beautiful and you didnt mention the area after the warning track sloped up like Minute Maid park had in centerfield, it went around foul pole to foul pole... I could just imagine seeing it during that time... No need to bring race into any of this bro...although im a man of color, that had nothing to do with all this.... But if you want to go there it wouldve been nice to point out that Negro League games were played there... Josh Gibson it was claimed hit the only fair ball out of the stadium....😊 I was born 3 blocks away from that beautiful place.... Saw my 1st game in 1967...a guy wearing #7 played 1st base...
@@sonofsanto A renovation would have been great; Yankee Stadium was sacred ground. But as with everything else on this planet, it probably came down to $$$.
This is a fantastic video! I hope you make more vintage baseball / baseball history videos I find them so fascinating. Your channel has a lot of potential
I like these type of videos where you just immerse yourself in that time period. A nice story to tell about those who lived a 100 years ago. Great Content as well!
Wow! What an amazing video! I'm constantly pausing the video so I can see the sights, architecture, outfield signs, people, etc. I like the photo taken from an airplane looking down at Yankees Stadium back then with very little buildings around the stadium. Showing what was the Bronx during those years. Great video! Thanks, I really enjoyed it. 😊👍❤️🇺🇲
Those images come from a book called "The Stadium"..... It's such a great book covering the 85 yrs of the stadium all photos of every event.... It's recommended for any Yankee fan... I was born in 1964 and we lived on 156th St. and,Park Ave., 3 blocks West...up thru Franz Siegal pk, past the courthouse, down Gerard, Jerome, cross the street... We there.😊❤ I hear God...no, it's Bob Sheppard and my brothers imitating his voice saying, "NUMBER TWENTY...HORACE CLARKE...NUMBER TWENTY..." Just turned 59 Tuesday... I'd give anything to be that kid again with his big brother...
I've never been a baseball guy cause it's slow at times & my mind isn't geared for it. However, as soon as I read the description of 1927 Yankees game I immediately knew I had to watch! Thanks, Im glad I watched this, very well done!!
On this date, 8-31-27 my father turned 5 years old. He grew up a Cubs fan. (unusual since he was from eastern OHIO) As for myself, , my team was the REDS, started going to games in the late 60s. All hail the BIG RED MACHINE!
My Cousins were from Forest park, Ohio , they were big Red fans , visited them thru out the late sixties into late Seventies every couple years . I’m a Mets fan , and as a 11 year old my cousin and I we’re together in July ‘73 . We exchanged posters thru the mail. The big Red machine was the team to beat . Never figured on the Mets going up against them in the NL Pennant .
This is really cool. I actually grew up across the street on 161st street and Gerard ave. The good ol days with jeter, tino, Bernie and petite. Love my boys!
Somehow that season, they were able to have their rated capacity go from 58000 to 82000, but in the next season return to 62000 even though the second and third decks were extended to left center field in the year after this season (1927). Then, after the bleacher rebuild in 1936 and the 1937-38 extention of the second and third decks into right center field, the seating capacity was 71,699 which was as large as The Yankee Stadium ever was. That game in 1928 between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Athletics that had over 85000 people there would have had people on the field all around the outfield (about 13000 of them) based on rated capacity back then.
Good info, thanks. I remember in the late '60s-early 1970s, before the renovation, the Yanks had some terrible teams, and there were often sparse crowds at many games. The small crowds would look even smaller in such a cavernous place...
Hate to bust your bubble about that whole Thomas Edison concrete thing. The Roman empire invented concrete over 2,000 years ago. That's what the coliseum was partially made of. Other evidences of Roman concrete were found in the aqueducts, and some of the downtown forum.
@@trapezemusic if you examine all the technology in the reports from archeology, you will find that the Roman Colosseum was almost as advanced as some early 20th century stadiums for soccer and baseball. I got to see the remains of the aqueduct powered flushing toilets in the coliseum. There were locker rooms for the gladiators. There were cages and trap doors to release the animals. Also, they had a way to entirely seal the floor with a wood and concrete type of structure and flood the arena with water from the pipes and aqueducts to fight sea battles in there.
@@paysonfox88 I am familiar with some of the design features of the Colosseum that you mention. It was a marvel. The same is true with the Roman aqueduct system, other arenas throughout the Empire, etc. They were amazing engineers and builders.
One weird feature of the early Yankee Stadium that you can see in some of these pictures is the way the left & right field grand stands actually cut in front of the bleachers. I would think in at least some of those bleacher seats you couldn’t see much of the field. The bleachers would later be completely rebuilt in concrete and the alley between the grand stands became the bullpens, the Yankees in right field and the visitors in left. When we used to go to the Stadium we always sat in the right field bleachers along the fence to the Yankees bull pen.
Nice video. Love the 490' center field. Fun fact: when it opened in 1923, center and the power alleys were deeper because home plate was actually further back 🙂
I remember going to that ice cream shop featured early in the video! Instantly recognized from when a 5 year old kid me, enjoyed an ice cream Sunday with my parents (may they rest in peace with ha shem!)....
Another interesting fact is around 1920 is when the 'live' ball came into the game. Before that it was known as the 'dead' ball because it had no cork center as they did after 1920. Babe Ruth actually started off his career off with the Red Sox the first six years as a 'pitcher'. If memory serves me correctly Ruth in 1919, the last year of the dead ball, wholoyped 29 home runs! It was the most ever by any hitter and he was still pitching too. The following year when the cork ball came out he smashed an incredible 54 home runs. Now remember he was a pitcher his fist six seasons. He was a two-time 20 game winner during those years for the Sox. He had hit only 9 home runs over that period before he became a full time hitter in NY. It's amazing that he hit a career 714 home runs, while spending his first 6 years as a pitcher. Imagine what he would've done if he had been a full-time hitter? Boggles the mind sometimes.
very informative and cool. thanks! to me...8 bathrooms for men and 8 for women just seem unreal how FEW there were You really made me feel like I was going to a game then. the sights and sounds! Many people forget the Yankees old Polo Grounds history...the place where they literally played every sport. Except Polo
I used to go to the stadium in the mid 60’s. To get to the upper deck you had to walk on a catwalk suspended by cables. It was a bit frightening but very cool. Pigeons would rest on the girders and occasionally drop down small gifts for the fans. After the game you could exit through the visitors bullpen after walking on the warning track. It was awesome.
Please note that while it was true that the NY Giants wanted the Yankees to leave the Polo Grounds after ten seasons), pressure was also applied to the Yankees by the American League office which felt strongly that the premier team of the AL should have its own ballpark.
I remember learning the origin of the phrase/put down, “out in left field”. I believe it was to say that since Ruth was over in right field, only the squares sat in the left field seats. I think it’s something like that.
Leo durocher wrote a great book that included details of his time as a New York Yankee back in those days. Leo said that The Babe was the greatest of all time.
Merci beaucoup for this. I was expecting maybe a newsreel footage of a trip, but this was just as exciting, and actually more informative. While you did say that the color barrrier wouldn't be broken for another 20 years, the picture of Babe Ruth after the game was taken with mostly Black fans. And idea of the photo? Was their segregated seating at the stadium? Any idea if NY had Black Baseball leagues? That would be an interesting video, since there was probably more talent on those teams than most MLB teams.
Thank you! And yes no players of Black, African descent played in Major League Baseball until 1947. Based on my research it seemed that there was no segregated seating at Yankee Stadium, can't say for other ballparks in the 20s. And yeah looks like NY did have two teams in the Second Negro National League - would be an interesting video en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_National_League_(1933%E2%80%931948)#Negro_National_League_franchises
The left field stands had a corner that stuck out in fair territory. Was it possible to hit a fly ball over that corner onto the field behind it and have the ball be in play or was it considered a homerun? It was a very strange design. When the left field grandstand was extended they may have gotten rid of this. I went to the Old Stadium back in 1973. I don't remember that oddity, but I was only 10 years old. I do remember the outfield being so huge! The monuments and flag pole were on the field! I also remember the #4 train stopping beyond the fence during the game.
There is no records of umpires calling anything close strikes. The strike zone WAS larger back then, with it extending up higher on the player's body. But certainly nothing about umpires calling balls off the plate strikes. And probably the biggest reason games were shorter was the lack of extra time between half innings for TV commercials.
That's always an easy explanation for the game length explosion, but it really isn't the reason at all. Teams still had to exit and enter the field, pitchers always got their 7 pitch warmups, infielders and outfielders always threw the ball around as well. Games were on the radio starting in the later 20's. The length of time between innings has not significantly changed (outside of postseason games) in nearly 100 years. The bigger culprits are the pitchers taking an excessive time throwing the pitch, batters continually stepping out, teams using 6-7 pitchers a game, and the overall strategy of three true outcome baseball/analytics. Hopefully the pitch clock will speed up the game moving forward.
@@knelsud92 Uhhh...what? You DO realize that in today's game, it is not just "entering and exiting the field" and warm ups right? They wait longer for commercials. That is a 100% indisputable fact. Even if the pitcher has had all his warm ups that he is allowed to toss between innings and everybody on the field and the batter are all ready to go...they sit and wait until the commercials are over. (not to mention, since they KNOW they have to wait anyway, they take their time getting to their positions and warming up.) It is a full extra minute every single half inning. Meaning 17 extra minutes a game. Longer for nationally televised games and playoffs. you are 100%, easily verifiably WRONG that the time between half innings hasn't changed in 100 years., Seriously, little millennial..if you have no idea what you are talking about, feel free to not embarrass yourself by joining the conversation.
@@KnickKnack07, millennial? Seriously. I'm 51. In case you haven't noticed, MLB put a clock in where in-between innings are clocked at 2:20, and everyone has to be ready to go when the clock hits 0:00. There's no waiting around for commercials to end. That's football. I used to think like you, thinking it's the commercials in between innings that was causing the explosion in game length. That was until I did some research into it. You are correct (and I mentioned it too) that post season games are infected with more commercials, but regular season game in-between inning breaks have not increased by a minute over the last 100 years. It's fluctuated between 15 to 30 seconds, maybe. You, and I was too, looking for an easy scapegoat, when it is actually the situations DURING the game that are causing the problems with pace of play. There has never been a season where game times increased an average of 17 minutes per game over the previous season. Never been one with 9 either. Over the course of a few seasons, yes. So, it's never been increased by a commercial spot from a season to a season. The increases have been 2-3 minutes on average. That's not enough to make the argument that commercials are the definitive cause.
@@knelsud92Forget about that happening. The other day Mets vs Yanks. Verlander against Cole. Through 6 innings took only 1 hour. Both pitchers were throwing a 2 hitter. So for absolutely no reason they took both pitchers out. Why? MLB were losing millions from commercial ads. The game went 4 hours & 30 minutes. Every manager does the exact same thing. They destroyed America's pastime.
I have heard of EVERY player in the Yankees lineup, but have only heard or Red Ruffing in the Boston lineup, and this is only because of his time with the Yankees!
I like the idea, but would like to see it even more immersive if possible. What about players throwing their gloves into the outfield between innings? So many other things I'm sure that were different back then that would be of interest .
First game at YS June 1957. Brilliant green expanse of OF grass entirely unforgettable as was voice of Bob Shepard. OF auxiliary scoreboards still manual for one last year as were portions of main CF board. Walking out after game from field level emphasized the message of dominance that Yankees projected.
I thought an unimaginable event or tragedy was going to happen on the specific date you chose and was tensed the entire video Greg video tho keep making more!!!
Not really. Do some research on it. The bigger problems are the length of time between pitches, constant pitching changes, pitchers not pitching for contact, working counts, and overall analytics. Yes, postseason games have longer breaks, but between innings in regular season games are not significantly longer than they were 80-90 years ago.
Very good video. My only wishes are that you would have included the 1927 dimensions and that you would tell us when the 3-decks were extended to curve past the foul poles, thus increasing seating capacity. This is the version that many of your viewers remember and that existed until the major renovation of 1974-75.
I first attended Wrigley Field in 1959. All through my youth and adolescence, bleacher seats were 90 cents, the grandstand was $1.50, upper box seats were $3.00, and lower box seats -- the most expensive seats in the house -- were $3.50. Women got in free for a number of games a year ('Ladies' Day'), and until 1988 all games were day games. The Cubs were fucking awful for most of my life, and my hard-working, long-suffering mother passed away at the age of 97, NEVER having seen the Cubs win a World Series.
I remember going to the Stadium to watch Jordan playing in front of 7 thousand fans in those early years. The Bulls weren't very good but it was worth the price of the ticket and just a joy and pleasure to watch Michael play. From one Chicago into another I'll say this, if Derrick Rose had not gotten injured... he surely would have had a place in the pantheon of basketball Immortals.
I would say there are at least a couple of corrections that need to be made. First, the bleacher seats were probably not blue. Yankee Stadium's seating or anything else to my knowledge wasn't painted blue until 1967, 40 years afterward. They were more than likely some shade of green. Secondly, for a regular season game, it is almost impossible that they'd have had a presentation for the National Anthem. They just didn't regularly do that back then. It wasn't until well into the 1940's were they started playing recordings of it at games, so that's just flat wrong. What they didn't announce over a bullhorn was the starting lineups and when numbers started being used for the Yankees in 1929, so this would have pre-dated them even having numbers. I've only watched the first 6 minutes of this. It's a noble attempt.
You forgot to mention that the attendance at that game was 4,000 people, no matter what people say, baseball as a spectator sport is much bigger today than it was in 1927
Oh! You, Babe Ruth! The Building and Opening of Old Yankee Stadium ruclips.net/video/GP0rPJfrH90/видео.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.
It was pretty common. Centerfield was 490'. Not a lot of balls were hit out there. As time went on the original monuments for Ruth, Miller Huggins and Gehrig were placed in front of the flag pole. While plaques for DiMaggio, Mantle, etc. were hung on the Centerfield wall. This remained until the 1970s renovation and the original Monument Park was built.
At 5:33 what's interesting about the bleachers is if you look closely at the people, there is a number of black men mixed in with the white crowd. That kind of surprised me because you don't see many images like this where black people are mixed in with white crowds during big events like this. And if it was common then it's something I either never saw or is rare to see. The reason I bring this up is because one I noticed it and two, it's hard to know what it was like for black people back that far when it came to events like this and so I find this interaction interesting. Where they happy being there? Where they harassed or did people show them some respect? Was there a code of conduct, lines you didn't cross? I know racism existed back then to, black people weren't allowed to sit in the front of buses, sit in white only restaurants, allowed to vote or drink from white only fountains. But I guess they were allowed to sit in the bleachers among white crowds. Interesting. I wonder if class had something to do with it as I don't know the demographics at sporting events long ago? Where they allowed to sit among white people in the bleachers because those white people were considered underclass? Funny how this sticks out to me. I just rarely rarely see an image like this from that far back.
In the 60s my friends and I were only 12 or 13 years old and we would go by ourselves to Yankee stadium from New Jersey. Our parents never worried and ask if we had a good time upon coming home. My 1st time at the Stadium Mickey Mantle hit a home run in bottom of 1st.
I smiled when I read your post. My brother and I were young kids in the 1960s too, and we were also from NJ.
Starting in the mid '60s, my Dad would drop my brother and I off at the stadium while he would visit all the relatives still living in NYC. We would often go to doubleheaders, which means we were by ourselves for up to 6 hours (in 1966 my brother was 12, I was 10).
Nothing bad ever happened, and no one worried at all about us (including my mom).
You know exactly what I'm talking about...
@@markb20 sure do my friend. Remember coming home sometimes we would eat hamburgers at a Port Authority snack bar or play Arcade games on 42nd street. What great memories we shared back then.
@@markb20 we got some grandpas in the chat
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That sounds really fun, I wish I could have done that
hey, this showed up in my recommended! you might be getting somewhere, dude!!
Preach! Epic video.
8:33 - notice all the African-Americans. Babe Ruth would go on barnstorming tours often against african-american teams and it's possible that photo is from one of those games. A true legend.
I was blessed enough to go to a game at THE Yankee Stadium, June 10, 1967, a week before my 11th birthday. Yankees got beat bad by Chicago, but I didn't care, I've always been a Giants fan, and besides, I got to see a game at the House That Ruth Built!
Nice video of same book i have...
Lol...
The images are beautiful and you didnt mention the area after the warning track sloped up like Minute Maid park had in centerfield, it went around foul pole to foul pole...
I could just imagine seeing it during that time...
No need to bring race into any of this bro...although im a man of color, that had nothing to do with all this....
But if you want to go there it wouldve been nice to point out that Negro League games were played there...
Josh Gibson it was claimed hit the only fair ball out of the stadium....😊
I was born 3 blocks away from that beautiful place....
Saw my 1st game in 1967...a guy wearing #7 played 1st base...
the old yankee stadium was a legendary place
Yup, as nice as the new one is, it ain't the real Yankee Stadium
@@markb20 yeah it’s appalling that it was torn down, they should have just renovated it a 2nd time or just turn it into a museum at most
@@sonofsanto A renovation would have been great; Yankee Stadium was sacred ground. But as with everything else on this planet, it probably came down to $$$.
You have to love the flag pole .
This is a fantastic video! I hope you make more vintage baseball / baseball history videos I find them so fascinating. Your channel has a lot of potential
I like these type of videos where you just immerse yourself in that time period. A nice story to tell about those who lived a 100 years ago. Great Content as well!
thank you! more to come :)
Wow! What an amazing video! I'm constantly pausing the video so I can see the sights, architecture, outfield signs, people, etc. I like the photo taken from an airplane looking down at Yankees Stadium back then with very little buildings around the stadium. Showing what was the Bronx during those years. Great video! Thanks, I really enjoyed it. 😊👍❤️🇺🇲
So, the Polo Grounds were really not far away at all.
Those images come from a book called "The Stadium".....
It's such a great book covering the 85 yrs of the stadium all photos of every event....
It's recommended for any Yankee fan...
I was born in 1964 and we lived on 156th St. and,Park Ave., 3 blocks West...up thru Franz Siegal pk, past the courthouse, down Gerard, Jerome, cross the street...
We there.😊❤
I hear God...no, it's Bob Sheppard and my brothers imitating his voice saying, "NUMBER TWENTY...HORACE CLARKE...NUMBER TWENTY..."
Just turned 59 Tuesday...
I'd give anything to be that kid again with his big brother...
New York Yankees r the greatest organization in sports history 💯💯💯💯
the real cathedral of baseball.
I've never been a baseball guy cause it's slow at times & my mind isn't geared for it. However, as soon as I read the description of 1927 Yankees game I immediately knew I had to watch! Thanks, Im glad I watched this, very well done!!
On this date, 8-31-27 my father turned 5 years old.
He grew up a Cubs fan. (unusual since he was from eastern OHIO)
As for myself, , my team was the REDS, started going to games in the late 60s.
All hail the BIG RED MACHINE!
My Cousins were from Forest park, Ohio , they were big Red fans , visited them thru out the late sixties into late Seventies every couple years . I’m a Mets fan , and as a 11 year old my cousin and I we’re together in July ‘73 . We exchanged posters thru the mail. The big Red machine was the team to beat . Never figured on the Mets going up against them in the NL Pennant .
Awesome video! cheers from Brazil
I wish could time travel and catch the Yankees during the Ruth years.
The 1927 Yankees. Wow
This is really cool. I actually grew up across the street on 161st street and Gerard ave. The good ol days with jeter, tino, Bernie and petite. Love my boys!
You said that concessions served beer--no, no. This was during Prohibtion (not that people weren'e drinking!)
whoops. Thanks for the correction - looks like beer was first served at Yankee Stadium in 1934.
keep it going!! wanna see this channel blow up
An excellent video, narrated by a real live human with a very pleasant voice. What were the odds?
Somehow that season, they were able to have their rated capacity go from 58000 to 82000, but in the next season return to 62000 even though the second and third decks were extended to left center field in the year after this season (1927). Then, after the bleacher rebuild in 1936 and the 1937-38 extention of the second and third decks into right center field, the seating capacity was 71,699 which was as large as The Yankee Stadium ever was. That game in 1928 between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Athletics that had over 85000 people there would have had people on the field all around the outfield (about 13000 of them) based on rated capacity back then.
Good info, thanks. I remember in the late '60s-early 1970s, before the renovation, the Yanks had some terrible teams, and there were often sparse crowds at many games. The small crowds would look even smaller in such a cavernous place...
I really enjoyed this video, please make more like this!
Hate to bust your bubble about that whole Thomas Edison concrete thing. The Roman empire invented concrete over 2,000 years ago. That's what the coliseum was partially made of. Other evidences of Roman concrete were found in the aqueducts, and some of the downtown forum.
Excellent comment.
@@trapezemusic if you examine all the technology in the reports from archeology, you will find that the Roman Colosseum was almost as advanced as some early 20th century stadiums for soccer and baseball.
I got to see the remains of the aqueduct powered flushing toilets in the coliseum. There were locker rooms for the gladiators. There were cages and trap doors to release the animals. Also, they had a way to entirely seal the floor with a wood and concrete type of structure and flood the arena with water from the pipes and aqueducts to fight sea battles in there.
@@paysonfox88 I am familiar with some of the design features of the Colosseum that you mention. It was a marvel. The same is true with the Roman aqueduct system, other arenas throughout the Empire, etc. They were amazing engineers and builders.
the concrete for Yankee Stadium in 1927 was developed by Edison. Sorry that wasn't clear lol.
One weird feature of the early Yankee Stadium that you can see in some of these pictures is the way the left & right field grand stands actually cut in front of the bleachers. I would think in at least some of those bleacher seats you couldn’t see much of the field. The bleachers would later be completely rebuilt in concrete and the alley between the grand stands became the bullpens, the Yankees in right field and the visitors in left. When we used to go to the Stadium we always sat in the right field bleachers along the fence to the Yankees bull pen.
Was rather sad when this stadium was demolished... I'd of saved Yankee Stadium, Cominsky and Tiger Stadium... those were amazing.
IDK why this was recommended but I love it. I'm subscribing and I'm excited to see what else you do!
None of the games were on FOX.
Nice video. Love the 490' center field.
Fun fact: when it opened in 1923, center and the power alleys were deeper because home plate was actually further back 🙂
I remember going to that ice cream shop featured early in the video! Instantly recognized from when a 5 year old kid me, enjoyed an ice cream Sunday with my parents (may they rest in peace with ha shem!)....
Fascinating, thanks for posting this. If I could go in time, one of the things I would do is to watch Babe Ruth play.
Another interesting fact is around 1920 is when the 'live' ball came into the game. Before that it was known as the 'dead' ball because it had no cork center as they did after 1920. Babe Ruth actually started off his career off with the Red Sox the first six years as a 'pitcher'.
If memory serves me correctly Ruth in 1919, the last year of the dead ball, wholoyped 29 home runs! It was the most ever by any hitter and he was still pitching too. The following year when the cork ball came out he smashed an incredible 54 home runs.
Now remember he was a pitcher his fist six seasons. He was a two-time 20 game winner during those years for the Sox. He had hit only 9 home runs over that period before he became a full time hitter in NY. It's amazing that he hit a career 714 home runs, while spending his first 6 years as a pitcher. Imagine what he would've done if he had been a full-time hitter? Boggles the mind sometimes.
very informative and cool. thanks!
to me...8 bathrooms for men and 8 for women just seem unreal how FEW there were
You really made me feel like I was going to a game then. the sights and sounds!
Many people forget the Yankees old Polo Grounds history...the place where they literally played every sport. Except Polo
Fascinating and historic. Great documentary. Look forward to seeing more.
Very good video. We shall be watching your career with great interest.
Not sure if you still make videos, but I really enjoyed this one and look forward to future content! Cheers.
490ft to dead center back in those days. THAT'S a shot!!!
I used to go to the stadium in the mid 60’s. To get to the upper deck you had to walk on a catwalk suspended by cables. It was a bit frightening but very cool. Pigeons would rest on the girders and occasionally drop down small gifts for the fans. After the game you could exit through the visitors bullpen after walking on the warning track.
It was awesome.
Please note that while it was true that the NY Giants wanted the Yankees to leave the Polo Grounds after ten seasons), pressure was also applied to the Yankees by the American League office which felt strongly that the premier team of the AL should have its own ballpark.
If they ever invent the time machine, this game is my first stop!
Then I'm off to 1956 World Series to watch Don Larsen pitch his perfect game.
Reading Bill Bryson's book One Summer:America 1927. Great Book, looking for vids to accompany it, thanks!
I remember learning the origin of the phrase/put down, “out in left field”. I believe it was to say that since Ruth was over in right field, only the squares sat in the left field seats. I think it’s something like that.
Leo durocher wrote a great book that included details of his time as a New York Yankee back in those days.
Leo said that The Babe was the greatest of all time.
I need a video for every year the Yankees won the chip !! That would be an amazing series
Merci beaucoup for this. I was expecting maybe a newsreel footage of a trip, but this was just as exciting, and actually more informative.
While you did say that the color barrrier wouldn't be broken for another 20 years, the picture of Babe Ruth after the game was taken with mostly Black fans. And idea of the photo? Was their segregated seating at the stadium? Any idea if NY had Black Baseball leagues? That would be an interesting video, since there was probably more talent on those teams than most MLB teams.
Thank you! And yes no players of Black, African descent played in Major League Baseball until 1947. Based on my research it seemed that there was no segregated seating at Yankee Stadium, can't say for other ballparks in the 20s.
And yeah looks like NY did have two teams in the Second Negro National League - would be an interesting video en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_National_League_(1933%E2%80%931948)#Negro_National_League_franchises
@@ohitshistory Merci.
NY Black Yankees were one such team
The left field stands had a corner that stuck out in fair territory. Was it possible to hit a fly ball over that corner onto the field behind it and have the ball be in play or was it considered a homerun? It was a very strange design. When the left field grandstand was extended they may have gotten rid of this. I went to the Old Stadium back in 1973. I don't remember that oddity, but I was only 10 years old. I do remember the outfield being so huge! The monuments and flag pole were on the field! I also remember the #4 train stopping beyond the fence during the game.
This was an awesome video! thanks for making it, keep up the good work man👊!
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There is no records of umpires calling anything close strikes. The strike zone WAS larger back then, with it extending up higher on the player's body. But certainly nothing about umpires calling balls off the plate strikes. And probably the biggest reason games were shorter was the lack of extra time between half innings for TV commercials.
That's always an easy explanation for the game length explosion, but it really isn't the reason at all. Teams still had to exit and enter the field, pitchers always got their 7 pitch warmups, infielders and outfielders always threw the ball around as well. Games were on the radio starting in the later 20's. The length of time between innings has not significantly changed (outside of postseason games) in nearly 100 years.
The bigger culprits are the pitchers taking an excessive time throwing the pitch, batters continually stepping out, teams using 6-7 pitchers a game, and the overall strategy of three true outcome baseball/analytics. Hopefully the pitch clock will speed up the game moving forward.
@@knelsud92 Uhhh...what? You DO realize that in today's game, it is not just "entering and exiting the field" and warm ups right? They wait longer for commercials. That is a 100% indisputable fact. Even if the pitcher has had all his warm ups that he is allowed to toss between innings and everybody on the field and the batter are all ready to go...they sit and wait until the commercials are over. (not to mention, since they KNOW they have to wait anyway, they take their time getting to their positions and warming up.) It is a full extra minute every single half inning. Meaning 17 extra minutes a game. Longer for nationally televised games and playoffs.
you are 100%, easily verifiably WRONG that the time between half innings hasn't changed in 100 years., Seriously, little millennial..if you have no idea what you are talking about, feel free to not embarrass yourself by joining the conversation.
@@KnickKnack07, millennial? Seriously. I'm 51. In case you haven't noticed, MLB put a clock in where in-between innings are clocked at 2:20, and everyone has to be ready to go when the clock hits 0:00. There's no waiting around for commercials to end. That's football. I used to think like you, thinking it's the commercials in between innings that was causing the explosion in game length. That was until I did some research into it. You are correct (and I mentioned it too) that post season games are infected with more commercials, but regular season game in-between inning breaks have not increased by a minute over the last 100 years. It's fluctuated between 15 to 30 seconds, maybe.
You, and I was too, looking for an easy scapegoat, when it is actually the situations DURING the game that are causing the problems with pace of play. There has never been a season where game times increased an average of 17 minutes per game over the previous season. Never been one with 9 either. Over the course of a few seasons, yes. So, it's never been increased by a commercial spot from a season to a season. The increases have been 2-3 minutes on average. That's not enough to make the argument that commercials are the definitive cause.
@@knelsud92Forget about that happening. The other day Mets vs Yanks. Verlander against Cole. Through 6 innings took only 1 hour. Both pitchers were throwing a 2 hitter. So for absolutely no reason they took both pitchers out. Why?
MLB were losing millions from commercial ads. The game went 4 hours & 30 minutes. Every manager does the exact same thing. They destroyed America's pastime.
@@knelsud92Because your 52? Well that doesn't mean anything. There are dumb people in every age.
I have heard of EVERY player in the Yankees lineup, but have only heard or Red Ruffing in the Boston lineup, and this is only because of his time with the Yankees!
I like the idea, but would like to see it even more immersive if possible. What about players throwing their gloves into the outfield between innings? So many other things I'm sure that were different back then that would be of interest .
Great photos/ research....like a time machine.
First game at YS June 1957. Brilliant green expanse of OF grass entirely unforgettable as was voice of Bob Shepard. OF auxiliary scoreboards still manual for one last year as were portions of main CF board. Walking out after game from field level emphasized the message of dominance that Yankees projected.
Excellent informative, and well put together. You are going places in your tube world. Subbed, thumbs up.
"Say, that's swell." -1927 guy
Knowledgeable and very enjoyable thank you
I thought an unimaginable event or tragedy was going to happen on the specific date you chose and was tensed the entire video
Greg video tho keep making more!!!
281 down the LF line .... !
huge ball park 463 to center
495 in 1927
5:27 It's longer today because of stupid commercial breaks..
Not really. Do some research on it. The bigger problems are the length of time between pitches, constant pitching changes, pitchers not pitching for contact, working counts, and overall analytics. Yes, postseason games have longer breaks, but between innings in regular season games are not significantly longer than they were 80-90 years ago.
Research this
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Ruth when he first saw the stadium in 1923: "Some ball yard."
Only EIGHT MENS' ROOMS??? In a stadium which, when it opened, seated 58,000?
Pretty cool. Learned a lot. Thanks
Very good video. My only wishes are that you would have included the 1927 dimensions and that you would tell us when the 3-decks were extended to curve past the foul poles, thus increasing seating capacity. This is the version that many of your viewers remember and that existed until the major renovation of 1974-75.
Great job with this.
You should do the 1965 Houston Astros.
Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in the Astrodome during an exhibition game.
Wonderful sport video.
The original Yankee Stadium was still known as Yankee Stadium in the 1950s I went there many times
this is a really good video! :D
I first attended Wrigley Field in 1959. All through my youth and adolescence, bleacher seats were 90 cents, the grandstand was $1.50, upper box seats were $3.00, and lower box seats -- the most expensive seats in the house -- were $3.50. Women got in free for a number of games a year ('Ladies' Day'), and until 1988 all games were day games. The Cubs were fucking awful for most of my life, and my hard-working, long-suffering mother passed away at the age of 97, NEVER having seen the Cubs win a World Series.
Good work. More please.
Great video! Thank you.
Very good! Thank you.
I wondered how it was to be a Yankee fan then watching The Babe everyday.And then Michael Jordan came along to my Chicago Bulls.!
Great analogy. Closest I’ve come is when Barry Sanders came to my Detroit Lions.
Larry Bird topped them. Bobby Orr changed hockey more than any other athlete in any other sport.
Ken Griffey Jr.
I remember going to the Stadium to watch Jordan playing in front of
7 thousand fans in those early years.
The Bulls weren't very good but it was worth the price of the ticket and just a joy and pleasure to watch Michael play.
From one Chicago into another I'll say this, if Derrick Rose had not gotten injured... he surely would have had a place in the pantheon of basketball Immortals.
Please do the 1935 Detroit Tigers!
Going to a New York Yankees game but it's 1985 (when both the team and city were at their nadirs)
I would say there are at least a couple of corrections that need to be made. First, the bleacher seats were probably not blue. Yankee Stadium's seating or anything else to my knowledge wasn't painted blue until 1967, 40 years afterward. They were more than likely some shade of green. Secondly, for a regular season game, it is almost impossible that they'd have had a presentation for the National Anthem. They just didn't regularly do that back then. It wasn't until well into the 1940's were they started playing recordings of it at games, so that's just flat wrong. What they didn't announce over a bullhorn was the starting lineups and when numbers started being used for the Yankees in 1929, so this would have pre-dated them even having numbers.
I've only watched the first 6 minutes of this. It's a noble attempt.
Good job on the video!
83 rd subscriber bud love the content keep it up
This was a fun video!
You forgot to mention that the attendance at that game was 4,000 people, no matter what people say, baseball as a spectator sport is much bigger today than it was in 1927
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Most people worked 6 days a week, had many chores with little money. Not a lot of leisure time.
Several reasons why, one of which was that all games were played on the afternoon. No night baseball back then.
@@trapezemusic True
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Well done!
Great video
great video! thank you!
Oh! You, Babe Ruth!
The Building and Opening of Old Yankee Stadium
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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.
That season they were 111 & 41. NO MLB team has come close
110-44. The 1954 Indians won 111 games. Eventually that record was shattered but I can't remember exactly; fairly recently.
Wrong: no beer was legally sold at Yankee Stadium in 1927! Prohibition was in effect until 1933.
What the heck is a flag pole doing in center field? Sheesh.
It was pretty common. Centerfield was 490'. Not a lot of balls were hit out there.
As time went on the original monuments for Ruth, Miller Huggins and Gehrig were placed in front of the flag pole. While plaques for DiMaggio, Mantle, etc. were hung on the Centerfield wall. This remained until the 1970s renovation and the original Monument Park was built.
Keep making these, you will get views
I noticed back in 1927 that most of the outfield did not have walls. So if the ball went over the warning track, was it considered a home run?
0:16 But I was taught Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, no? Great informative video.
And women weren't allowed to play!
Did others recognize Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford?
At 5:33 what's interesting about the bleachers is if you look closely at the people, there is a number of black men mixed in with the white crowd. That kind of surprised me because you don't see many images like this where black people are mixed in with white crowds during big events like this. And if it was common then it's something I either never saw or is rare to see.
The reason I bring this up is because one I noticed it and two, it's hard to know what it was like for black people back that far when it came to events like this and so I find this interaction interesting. Where they happy being there? Where they harassed or did people show them some respect? Was there a code of conduct, lines you didn't cross?
I know racism existed back then to, black people weren't allowed to sit in the front of buses, sit in white only restaurants, allowed to vote or drink from white only fountains. But I guess they were allowed to sit in the bleachers among white crowds. Interesting.
I wonder if class had something to do with it as I don't know the demographics at sporting events long ago? Where they allowed to sit among white people in the bleachers because those white people were considered underclass? Funny how this sticks out to me. I just rarely rarely see an image like this from that far back.
awesome vid thanks
Baseball banned black players back then.
I love your video style! Looking forward to future videos from you! I'd join a patreon if you started one
Good vid bro
Not much snow expected on a NYC August afternoon. 1:45
I had read, saw, somewhere that th reason Yankee Stadium was so deep in left center is because the Stadium hosted bicycle racing. Anyone confirm this?
well done