Baseball heads..can we talk about legendary Polo Grounds?

[staticshock]

Look, im all for tradition and history of the game, but that had to be the dumbest field in the history of baseball. How this field was allowed to be played on in the professional level, ill never know. The extra wide foul area, the outfield shape, the stands above the outfield..

glad this shyt isnt around anymore

 

[The War Report]

Looks like a pitcher's wet dream.

 

[Captain Crunch]

I wonder how the seating was

 

[concise]

It was legendary because of the games that were played there, not because of good design.
Stuff like that is why there are minum standards.

 

[Regular_P]

Loved using this field in the old Triple Play/MVP Baseball games.

Little League dimensions down the lines and Bonds power to the gaps/centerfield.

 

[Regular_P]

Baseball is the most ridiculous sport in existence when it comes to their fields. How do you have a standardized sport, but each park has a different dimension?

Imagine Golden State and Houston having courts with 28 foot three point lines and 110 feet long or the Pats having 80 yard fields that were 65 yards wide.

 

[ISO]

Is now a projects across the street from Rucker Park

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Looks like a pitcher's wet dream.

yet babe ruth .378 with 59 home runs there one year

 

[staticshock]

Baseball is the most ridiculous sport in existence when it comes to their fields. How do you have a standardized sport, but each park has a different dimension?

Imagine Golden State and Houston having courts with 28 foot three point lines and 110 feet long or the Pats having 80 yard fields that were 65 yards wide.

lol
i think thats kinda dope tho..makes your skipper game plan and pick his pitcher and batting order differently based on the field.

Is now a projects across the street from Rucker Park

damn really
do old white folks ever go to the area to tour it?

yet babe ruth .378 with 59 home runs there one year

the great bambino
most famous athlete in American history. besides MJ

 

[ISO]

lol
i think thats kinda dope tho..makes your skipper game plan and pick his pitcher and batting order differently based on the field.



damn really
do old white folks ever go to the area to tour it?


the great bambino
most famous athlete in American history. besides MJ

Nah. Not many remnants of the baseball park left. They recently redid the staircase tho.

Area is huge jects with Rucker Park across the street. I heard back in the day you could see Yankee Stadium from the Polo Grounds with the elevation from the BX to Harlem. Ebbets Field became projects too

 

[Canada Goose]

damn really
do old white folks ever go to the area to tour it?

Nope, there's literary no sign that a baseball stadium was once there... same goes for Ebbets Field (Old Brooklyn Dodgers stadium now apartment buildings). Every trace of those stadiums was wiped away except for the name.


However part of the subway shuttle line to that used to serve Polo Grounds is still there, but you can't see it without trespassing.

POLO GROUNDS SHUTTLE 2017 - Forgotten New York

 

[gangreen]

Loved using this field in the old Triple Play/MVP Baseball games.

Little League dimensions down the lines and Bonds power to the gaps/centerfield.

You mean Jon Dowd's power

 

[FreedMind]

 

[Miggs]

Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium were across the Hudson from each other,i read that the POlo Grounds was designed for baseball SMH.


It looks like a football stadium that transitioned into the home of the Giants....

 

[Remote]

yet babe ruth .378 with 59 home runs there one year

This was 1921.

And in 1921, Ruth hit 32 homers at the Polo Grounds and 27 homers on the road.