Classic Baseball Photos

[NJHalo]

1 hour ago, Angel Oracle said:

Like the Coliseum, only RF is also deep there.

Irony is, home plate at the Polo Grounds could have been moved back (lots of foul ground behind it) to create deeper dimensions down each line (10-15 feet further anyway).

My father used to go see both the NY baseball and NY football Giants at the Polo Grounds. He said it was a better football stadium than it was for baseball, in spite of it starting out as a baseball stadium.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

7 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Like the Coliseum, only RF is also deep there.

Irony is, home plate at the Polo Grounds could have been moved back (lots of foul ground behind it) to create deeper dimensions down each line (10-15 feet further anyway).

Strange that it would be almost 200 feet further in the power alleys than it was down the lines.

[fan_since79]

62 years ago today, at the Polo Grounds...

 

[NJHalo]

 Football at Fenway

[NJHalo]

How's that for a center field??

[NJHalo]

[NJHalo]

[Angel Oracle]

11 minutes ago, NJHalo said:

How's that for a center field??

Which stadium is that?

[NJHalo]

^^^^^

JFK Stadium, Philadelphia

2 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Which stadium is that?

 

[fan_since79]

1 hour ago, NJHalo said:

"Well, all right, let's all take a deep breath as we go to the most dramatic ninth inning in the history of baseball. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces."

- Vin Scully calling Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

[Homebrewer]

Damn...now I really want a beer and some lucky strikes

 

In before AO tells you that it means Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, NJHalo said:

^^^^^

JFK Stadium, Philadelphia

 

Thanks, has to be from the 20s or 30s?

Looks like the foul lines are no further out than 200 ft.

[Homebrewer]

1 hour ago, NJHalo said:

^^^^^

JFK Stadium, Philadelphia

 

 

5 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Thanks, has to be from the 20s or 30s?

Looks like the foul lines are no further out than 200 ft.

Wow, JFK already had a stadium named after him when he was just a child?

[Angel Oracle]

JFK was ahead of his time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Stadium_(Philadelphia

[fan_since79]

Dan Casey, Charlie Bastian, and trainer (Philadelphia Quakers, 1886)

The earliest known case of forearm tightness.

 

[fan_since79]

Deacon McGuire, Philadelphia Quakers. He played 26 seasons, mostly as a catcher, and his last game was in 1912 at the age of 48, for Detroit. 

McGuire holds the all-time record for caught stealing with 1,459 base runners thrown out.

[Homebrewer]

12 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Dan Casey, Charlie Bastian, and trainer (Philadelphia Quakers, 1886)

The earliest known case of forearm tightness.

 

"Hmmmm...looks like dehydration to me."

[fan_since79]

Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, and Tris Speaker.

1928 Philadelphia A's. All three are at least 40 years old. A combined 11,019 career hits.

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, fan_since79 said:

Eddie Collins, Ty Cobb, and Tris Speaker.

1928 Philadelphia A's. All three are at least 40 years old. A combined 11,019 career hits.

Safe to say that this will never happen again (3 first ballot HOFs on the same team at age 40)?

[fan_since79]

Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are the only two players with more than 1,000 extra-base hits from doubles and triples.

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 9/29/2016 at 11:31 AM, fan_since79 said:

62 years ago today, at the Polo Grounds...

 

I built a plastic model kit of this play in the 1960s.

[fan_since79]

Ed Harvey hands the ball to Clemente after his 3,000th and final hit. September 30, 1972.

 

[fan_since79]

Roger Maris about to cross home plate on his 61st home run of the season, October 1, 1961.

Astonishing how empty Yankee Stadium is, considering the significance of this and the fact they won the pennant that year.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 9/29/2016 at 11:31 AM, fan_since79 said:

62 years ago today, at the Polo Grounds...

 

I was curious as to what the monument is in front of the 483 Ft. sign is, so I looked it up. It is a monument to Eddie Grant, an infielder who played for the Philadelphia Nationals, Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants. He was a Captain in the U. S, Army Infantry killed during World War I.

Eddie Grant Memorial Plaque

Those who are around my age may remember when the monuments in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium (plus two flagpole bases) were in the field of play in center field, and it was 463 feet to the wall in dead center. If a ball rolled into or past the monuments, you could get some really strange bounces.

[Dick B Back]

On September 29, 2016 at 1:31 PM, fan_since79 said:

"Well, all right, let's all take a deep breath as we go to the most dramatic ninth inning in the history of baseball. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces."

- Vin Scully calling Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

When I read "sit back, light up" I thought it was somebody calling a Royals game.