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I went to 1 game there in the mid 90's. My dad caught a HR from Mo Vaughn

We miss our Expos! In spite of all financial problems experienced by the Expos, they did manage to build some excellent teams. Dollar-for-dollar, they were among the best. Maybe some day, they will demolish the obsolete Olympic stadium and build a new stadium. That will be the beginning.

good job researching, I suggest part of that research include the proper pronunciation of names and places, that way it doesn't sound so read for the first time.

I was in the left field upper deck when Willie Mays made "the catch." I remember turning to my brother and saying "Boy, what a throw!" I was there when Joe Dimaggio hit his last major league home run, in a World Series game. However, what I best remember is that the dressing rooms weren't behind the dugouts, but rather up those stairs in center field. After every game there was an announcement - "No spectators will be permitted on the playing field until all players and umpires have reached their dressing rooms." Then you could run on the field. Sweet memories.

It was a magical time. You just had to be there.

Two cheaters.

1998 did not save baseball. I am not sure why people keep saying this. 1998 was an exciting season with the home run race but Baseball was not ever in serious trouble where Americans tuned out.

who cares if they were juicing when everyone was. they weren’t technically cheating and saved baseball.

Fire vid bro

Towards the end is a picture of a family of 3...taken in early 1940s' They are my Dad and Mom and older brother. They have all passed on. I have same picture from NY paper. I was home as only 1-3 years old. Was very excited to see and have shown this to my five children and many grand- children.

keep up your great work!

Too bad there’s not a Viagra for inflatable stadium domes

They actually allowed fans to exit the stadium through regular doors once the game was over. Because of the significant air pressure difference, it became tradition to get literally blown out of the stadium. Good times.

Horrible stadium. It was essentially a tv stadium for football. Baseball in the Metrodome was a parody.

I'll always remember how the white roof had the effect of flattening the lightening, so there were barely any shadows. Everything felt 2 dimensional. Even on a beautiful summer day, we got to experience the bleakness of being indoors on an overcast December afternoon. It would have made for a great venue to take Lifetouch or Glamourshot photos.

And the county is still paying for the Metrodome

I attended several met games at the polar grounds in 1962 and 1963. But before that, I also attended several New York Titan football games (known as New York Jets). The stadium was unusual in the sense that you walked off the subway and actually went down to the stadium after you got the street level so it was really below grade. By the way, my grandmother used to call Memorial Day, Decoration Day when I was a kid

Polo Grounds ver. IV had the deepest CF.

I can still smell the deadness inside the Dome. And the hollow sound. White ceiling. Bad cheesy nachos. What senses weren't offended?

Super Bowls, although represented by Roman numerals, are still identified by regular numbers. Therefore, Super Bowl XXVI is normally referred to as Super Bowl twenty-six.

i think i recall that there are still steps you can see that once led to stadium and the stories of the elevated 3 train line that went by at something like a height of 100 ft ? people were known to fall or jump way back of course i was born after mets relocated to shea so what do i know !!! great effort though i will view other work u do !

Thanks for sharing. I was 9 or 10 when returning home from camp (going south on our Boy’s Club bus), & at one point on Harlem River Dr. passing Yankee Stadium on the left, & the Polo Grounds on the right. It was the only time I would actually see it in real time 👍🏻

Loving your Dead Stadium series

I went to many Lions' games at the dome but the loudest by far was when Barry rushed for over 2k yards in a season during the last game vs the Jets in '97. If i remember correctly the refs even penalized the Lions for the crowd being too loud! It was epic 🤘

It's amazing how far dome stadium technology has come with the multi-billion domes in Dallas, Phoenix, LA and LV along with others, but I admit these early domes in Pontiac, Minneapolis, New Orleans, etc. we're very advanced for the times. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I remember seeing many games on TV from the Silver Dome including the early game on every Thanksgiving Day.

The Silverdome was also the site of Super Bowl XVI (49ers vs Bengals).

Suggestions for future episodes: Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Sportsmans Park and old Busch Stadium in St Louis. Baker Bowl and Shibe Park in Philly.

It's too bad the strike killed their best chance at a World Series.

Where is "state island"?

Caitlin Clark is a great player who is dealing with growing pains adjusting to the WNBA, and she's getting better. Why do these idiots have to bring such nonsense into the discussion? I really don't want to get to a point where acknowledging her skill is seen as a shibboleth of some sort of aligning with people I want nothing to do with.

Fine video. I first attended an MLB game at the Polo Grounds on August 11, 1957, a double header between the Giants and the Phillies. Also saw 5 Mets games there in 1962 and 1963. Never had a bad time there. I even got excited just walking past the place to go to a World Series game in 1962. A couple of things you omitted. Most famous college football game played there was the Notre Dame vs Army game about which Grantland Rice wrote his Four Horseman of the Apocalypse column. Most famous pro football game played there was the 1934 NFL championship that you mentioned, also known as the "Sneakers Game." One of the photos you included showed the center field clubhouse windows, with a person sitting inside one of the windows clearly visible. Herman Franks, a Giants coach and later manager, sat with a telescope behind one of those windows, stealing the visiting catcher's signs throughout the team's 1951 comeback from 15 games behind Brooklyn, and a newsreel verified that Thompson had thereby been signaled to expect the pitch that he lined into the left field seats to end the playoff.

It’s pronounced “Statten” Island (not “Stay-ten”). “Fordam” University (not “Ford-ham”). Horace “Stonem” (not “Stone-ham”). Joe McGinnity (not “McGinney”). Ingemar Johansson (not “Ignemar”). The first night game played in the Major Leagues was in Cincinnati in 1935, not at the Polo Grounds in 1940. And the decaying stadium exacerbated (not “exasperated”) the problem.

Pathetic that you need to explain to your viewers what “polo” means.

Fix your fucking echo dude.

RIP Willie Mays. They should place a placard or statue where "The Catch" was made.

Haha. I went to a lot of Mariner's games in the Kingdome when I was a kid. Nobody liked it and everyone celebrated when it was imploded. The Seahawks and the Mariners both currently have excellent stadiums. The AstroTurf at the Kingdome was paper thin and the athletes were basically playing on concrete. It caused a lot of injuries and probably shortened careers. The only thing that I miss is the metal outfield bleachers. When they played Queen's song "We Will Rock You" the fans would stomp their feet on the metal. Stomp, stomp, clap! Stomp, stomp, clap! It was so loud in the dome.

Background Music Now, Huh?

Nicknamed “The Bathtub!”

19:18 - RIP

LETSSSS. GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I am a Washington native and visited the K-dome many times as a Seahawks fan. I won't say it was the worst stadium ever built... but it certainly was in the bottom 5. NOBODY liked it... not the NFL, not MLB, not the MLS [as it existed at that time], not concert promoters, nobody. But she was resurrected into Seahawk Stadium [better than 90% of the concrete in the Kingdome went into building the new stadium] and THAT is an absolute gem.

*Vic Wertz's shot that Willie Mays caught in center field was over 460 feet. You can see the "483 FT" on the center field wall above the monument in the picture.*

If you really want to get a yt man mad call him son. They will yell it to you. I'm not your son!

Trivia: The wrecking ball used to level The Polo Grounds was the same one used to demolish Ebbets Field. I only saw The Polo Grounds once - from the outside. That was in 1960.

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Yale vs Princeton football game engraving- shows a baseball game engraving

The John T. Brush Stairway is the only thing remaining of the Polo Grounds.

I liked your video however the Polo Grounds was not the first site of a MLB night game. Old Crosley Field in Cincinnati Ohio was on May 24th 1935. The Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.

great work you did on this- very cool

In 1964, my parents & I attended the New York World's Fair. I was eight years old & already a baseball fan. One day, we took a Circle Line sightseeing cruise around Manhattan, and we passed by the Polo Grounds, which was in the process of being demolished. I remembered that the Mets had played there, and even though Shea Stadium was a sight to behold (well, it WAS when it was new!), I felt sad when our tour guide told us that "The Polo Grounds are no more!" One quick comment about the game where Willie Mays made that catch. It happened during the 1954 World Series on September 30, 1954. Imagine that! The World Series, the "October Classic," actually started back then in September. Now, the Series stretches into early November!