I have no connection with New York and the Polo Grounds was torn down long before I was born, yet If I had a choice to go back in time to any ballpark to see a game, it would absolutely be the Polo Grounds. There just seems to be something magical about that place. I envy those who actually got to see a game there.
WOW how did you do that? Amazing virtual. One small nit: Matty's 1905 gen was in PoloGrounds IV, as this was built in 1911 as I recall. But Matty did pitch here. Amazing stuff. I got chills when you went under the right field overhang.
Clearly, this was a park designed for the dead ball era. It was ill-suited to the live ball.
Back then, it was to the advantage of left hand power hitters to be @ such places like League Field in Cleveland or the Baker Bowl in Philly. Just shoot the ball high and down the line. Routine fly outs today were homeruns in that era.
im on a 13u travel team from chicago and we flew down to mrytle beach SC and we played on a replica field like this but with out all the seats. center field was 397 and the lines were 284
@ChevyRoll48 It SOUNDS like a hitters ball park but keep in mind its '475 to center most hitters do not hit HR down the line. It would be a great ball park if you were a pole hitter,
Little known Polo Grounds fact: the Yankees shared the Grounds with the Giants for about 10 years before the original Stadium opened in '23. Babe Ruth hit a shot which CLEARED THE RF GRANDSTAND ROOF in right-center, ball estimated to travel 580-600 feet. Seriously, imagine seeing that in person? Read the book "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs". Stunning how many more HR he'd have gotten in today's parks. Otherworldly. Thanks again foe this post!
If you have a Sony PS2 then get the ALL STAR BASEBALL 2005 by Acclaim. They are long out of business so you can pick this game up at Gamestop for about $3. You will find a narrated Ballpark Tours feature in the extras section where this and other ballpark vids on YouTube were glommed. Worth the search!
If you have a Sony PS2 then get the ALL STAR BASEBALL 2005 by Acclaim. They are long out of business so you can pick this game up at Gamestop for about $3. You will find a narrated Ballpark Tours feature in the extras section where this and other ballpark vids on YouTube were glommed. Worth the search!
That does ring a bell. I think the pre-Mets history stuck in my mind. Hank Aaron also hit the longest homerun I ever saw in person--over the CF fence in Connie Mack Stadium, 447 feet away.
Did Aaron's homer clear Shibe Park's 33-ft high fence between the right center flag pole and left field bleachers? I am a long time Phillies fan and baseball history enthusiast. My research as well as Bill Jenkinson's, a renouned professional historian, have only Babe Ruth and Dick Allen clearing the 33' high wall in center between the flag pole and bleachers.
No, the Aaron HR that I saw went straight over the 447 sign in center field--it probably went about 460. Not as far as the Allen HR but the farthest I have seen in person--at any park. I remember reading that Ruth said that he once hit one "into Opal St." That would be to right field, over the first street behind the RF wall, over the row of houses on that street (20th St.?), and then into the second street behind RF, which was Opal St.
You have an excellent memory and are absolutely correct!! The distance to Shibe Park's centerfield corner is 467 ft. In 1952 the Phillies put an inner fence of 447 in center so that the batting cage could be stored behind it in center field. Aaron was not noted as a long distance slugger like Ruth, Foxx, Mantle, and Allen but could still hit them a long way and certainly very often!
According to Stew Thornley- "Land of the Giants"-Lou Brock (yes, Lou Brock)-6/18/62-right of batter's eye off Al Jackson-bounced off fence into stands, Hank Aaron the next day - left side -off Jay Hook-grand slam, and Luke Easter (Homestead Grays)1948 join Adcock (1953)
Hermanglimser, please note: Bobby T's home run was a line drive that cleared the left field wall directly above the 315 sign. Therefore, it would have been an out in some balls parks, a homer in several others. Nice job with the video. Wish it were longer.
Bobby Thompson's homerun was very rare indeed. Homeruns to left field in the old Polo Grounds seldom went into the lower left field seats owing to the left field upper deck overhanging the lower deck by23-feet. Bobby Thompson's homer would've made for a very difficult catch in parks that would've held it.
lol the pollo grounds is in mlb 2009 the show and its reallistic. only problem is you can never hit homeruns over the 487 foot center wall. it kinda sucks.. to bad you cant hit a mickey mantle homerun...
wish you had a better quality version of this. Looks as if you shot this off a tv screen or monitor.... can't you render the 3D file to an avi or mpg?
If you have a Sony PS2 then get the ALL STAR BASEBALL 2005 by Acclaim. They are long out of business so you can pick this game up at Gamestop for about $3. You will find a narrated Ballpark Tours feature in the extras section where this and other ballpark vids on YouTube were glommed. Worth the search!
I think The Polo Ground was in Harlem.
tdigiano 2 months ago
I love you AJAW!
A626fan 5 months ago
I have no connection with New York and the Polo Grounds was torn down long before I was born, yet If I had a choice to go back in time to any ballpark to see a game, it would absolutely be the Polo Grounds. There just seems to be something magical about that place. I envy those who actually got to see a game there.
qthelost 5 months ago
thumbs up if you think polo grounds looks like a football stadiium but still the best baseball stadium ever built!
blazzinhot303 6 months ago
its on a video game prolly 09 the show
XTREMEK4RNAGE 9 months ago
video + music = excellent, I can only wonder what it would've been like to be there on it's inaugural day
AmazingJames1987 10 months ago
WOW how did you do that? Amazing virtual. One small nit: Matty's 1905 gen was in PoloGrounds IV, as this was built in 1911 as I recall. But Matty did pitch here. Amazing stuff. I got chills when you went under the right field overhang.
Clearly, this was a park designed for the dead ball era. It was ill-suited to the live ball.
Krp8dm 1 year ago
so cool!!! it's like going back in time.
miiket67 1 year ago
Back then, it was to the advantage of left hand power hitters to be @ such places like League Field in Cleveland or the Baker Bowl in Philly. Just shoot the ball high and down the line. Routine fly outs today were homeruns in that era.
emauriceharr 1 year ago
Hey - where's the wrecking ball????????
NICE job new york allowing this great place to be torn down....bunch of chumps....
razraz222 1 year ago 2
im on a 13u travel team from chicago and we flew down to mrytle beach SC and we played on a replica field like this but with out all the seats. center field was 397 and the lines were 284
IBob65 1 year ago
At 2:11 the place where Bobby Thompson hit "The Shot Heard Round the World"
prausch65 1 year ago
wtf u just got that from a game
chicken583 1 year ago
That is mesmerizingly cool !!! Love that park. Acres and acres of turf in the outfield.
huskyjerk 1 year ago
when did the yankees play there?
WhoDatNOLA1025 1 year ago
@WhoDatNOLA1025
1913 to 1922
oldaardvark 1 year ago
@WhoDatNOLA1025 ---prob b4 Yankee Stadium was built, around 1923.
loyaldude10 1 year ago
man the Polo Ground sounds like a hitters park exept for left-center , right-center , and center field
ChevyRoll48 1 year ago
@ChevyRoll48 It SOUNDS like a hitters ball park but keep in mind its '475 to center most hitters do not hit HR down the line. It would be a great ball park if you were a pole hitter,
avengemm9dog 1 year ago
Shoeless Joe also cleared the RF roof. If you rebuild it... he will come back
batuganakoy 1 year ago
Bring the Giants back to NYC. Send all the no-loads living in the Polo Grounds apts to San Francisco.
batuganakoy 1 year ago
dat was bak in da 20's and 30's babe ruth was a primitave human 2days humans are weaker lol
Kawp123 1 year ago
was at a Cubs Mets game when Lou Brock was on Cubs and he hit a HR into centerfield bleacher
cgn49 2 years ago
Awesome upload! TY very much!
Little known Polo Grounds fact: the Yankees shared the Grounds with the Giants for about 10 years before the original Stadium opened in '23. Babe Ruth hit a shot which CLEARED THE RF GRANDSTAND ROOF in right-center, ball estimated to travel 580-600 feet. Seriously, imagine seeing that in person? Read the book "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs". Stunning how many more HR he'd have gotten in today's parks. Otherworldly. Thanks again foe this post!
bionicbigfoot 2 years ago
besides the Polo Grounds is in Harlem not Manhattan
ChevyRoll48 2 years ago
harlem is in manhattan
cgn49 2 years ago
well its close lets just say that
ChevyRoll48 2 years ago
@ChevyRoll48 That's like saying The Mets play in Flushing but not in queens
jtcbrt 2 years ago
@ChevyRoll48 Geography is taught in school, not where ever you went.
batuganakoy 1 year ago
Where did you get this?
Subwayguy98 2 years ago
If you have a Sony PS2 then get the ALL STAR BASEBALL 2005 by Acclaim. They are long out of business so you can pick this game up at Gamestop for about $3. You will find a narrated Ballpark Tours feature in the extras section where this and other ballpark vids on YouTube were glommed. Worth the search!
bklyndodger14 2 years ago
Can't find anything on this in the encyclopedia of useless information. I think I'll watch paint dry instead:-)
bLondon83 2 years ago
Where do I find this? How can I buy this program?
huskyjerk 2 years ago
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If you have a Sony PS2 then get the ALL STAR BASEBALL 2005 by Acclaim. They are long out of business so you can pick this game up at Gamestop for about $3. You will find a narrated Ballpark Tours feature in the extras section where this and other ballpark vids on YouTube were glommed. Worth the search!
bklyndodger14 2 years ago
That does ring a bell. I think the pre-Mets history stuck in my mind. Hank Aaron also hit the longest homerun I ever saw in person--over the CF fence in Connie Mack Stadium, 447 feet away.
oldaardvark 2 years ago
Did Aaron's homer clear Shibe Park's 33-ft high fence between the right center flag pole and left field bleachers? I am a long time Phillies fan and baseball history enthusiast. My research as well as Bill Jenkinson's, a renouned professional historian, have only Babe Ruth and Dick Allen clearing the 33' high wall in center between the flag pole and bleachers.
DickAllen4HOF 2 years ago
No, the Aaron HR that I saw went straight over the 447 sign in center field--it probably went about 460. Not as far as the Allen HR but the farthest I have seen in person--at any park. I remember reading that Ruth said that he once hit one "into Opal St." That would be to right field, over the first street behind the RF wall, over the row of houses on that street (20th St.?), and then into the second street behind RF, which was Opal St.
oldaardvark 2 years ago
You have an excellent memory and are absolutely correct!! The distance to Shibe Park's centerfield corner is 467 ft. In 1952 the Phillies put an inner fence of 447 in center so that the batting cage could be stored behind it in center field. Aaron was not noted as a long distance slugger like Ruth, Foxx, Mantle, and Allen but could still hit them a long way and certainly very often!
DickAllen4HOF 2 years ago
Enjoyed this. Joe Adcock was the only one to hit a ball into those bleachers--into the left-hand portion of them I believe.
oldaardvark 2 years ago
According to Stew Thornley- "Land of the Giants"-Lou Brock (yes, Lou Brock)-6/18/62-right of batter's eye off Al Jackson-bounced off fence into stands, Hank Aaron the next day - left side -off Jay Hook-grand slam, and Luke Easter (Homestead Grays)1948 join Adcock (1953)
RKestlerFL 2 years ago
Hermanglimser, please note: Bobby T's home run was a line drive that cleared the left field wall directly above the 315 sign. Therefore, it would have been an out in some balls parks, a homer in several others. Nice job with the video. Wish it were longer.
trapezemusic 2 years ago
Bobby Thompson's homerun was very rare indeed. Homeruns to left field in the old Polo Grounds seldom went into the lower left field seats owing to the left field upper deck overhanging the lower deck by23-feet. Bobby Thompson's homer would've made for a very difficult catch in parks that would've held it.
DickAllen4HOF 2 years ago
"Bullpens are in fair ground." LOL
Such a bizarre field with so much character. Too bad MLB would never allow it to be built today.
oldhatrs25 2 years ago
new yankee stadium- the house that steroids built
KartKing4ever 2 years ago
Wasn't Bobby Thompson's famous home run actually a routine out in any other ball park?
hermanglimsher 2 years ago
I Played @ The Polo Grounds today. I went 2 for 2.
Norima79 2 years ago
lol the pollo grounds is in mlb 2009 the show and its reallistic. only problem is you can never hit homeruns over the 487 foot center wall. it kinda sucks.. to bad you cant hit a mickey mantle homerun...
hothamandfauri 2 years ago
wish you had a better quality version of this. Looks as if you shot this off a tv screen or monitor.... can't you render the 3D file to an avi or mpg?
kennyk2104 2 years ago
Superb! If baseball video games featured old ball-park settings like this they'd double their sales.
:-)
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
they do
mattador2792 2 years ago
Which games?
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
MLB 07 and MVP 2005. maybe others do too but i know about those two because I have them. No Ebbets field though : (
mattador2792 2 years ago
If you have a Sony PS2 then get the ALL STAR BASEBALL 2005 by Acclaim. They are long out of business so you can pick this game up at Gamestop for about $3. You will find a narrated Ballpark Tours feature in the extras section where this and other ballpark vids on YouTube were glommed. Worth the search!
bklyndodger14 2 years ago
@bklyndodger14 or Xbox
ajawofcopan 2 years ago
or gamecube cause 2005 it had games
ChevyRoll48 2 years ago
dude, sweet my friends great great grandpa ownd this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xxtreesngrass 2 years ago
Really is amazing, great job.
jeremyeye 2 years ago
Not great???? It's amazing, thanks!!!!!
Haroldbeavis1969 2 years ago
This is awesome man
eligoodrich 2 years ago
thanks. It's not great, but gives us an idea of what it looked like cir. 1955
ajawofcopan 2 years ago
Wow, how did you do this? Did you do any other stadiums?
6986drew 2 years ago
badass dude !
midnighttoker7772200 2 years ago