The Lost Ball Parks

During Baseball's Golden Age, there were several unique places where America's Past Time was played. Today only Chicago's Wrigley Field and Boston's Fenway Park remain as vestiges of a bygone era.

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• ballparks
• baseball
• stadium
• field. sports

[southparkfan2717]

COMISKEY PARK?!?!?!?!?

[prausch65]

@southparkfan2717 Indeed it is Comiskey Park as the opening scene..When opened it was known as "The Baseball Palace of the World".

[SamusAbe]

Thanks for uploading I love this show

[prausch65]

@SamusAbe Your welcome Samus Abe, I spent my youth in new York's Shea Stadium with many great memories of seeing a ball game with my father. I also was at the original Yankeee Stadium in 1973.

[Angryrnmedic]

I love the history of the old baseball and the old ball parks. It's very interesting to study the history. So many unique things happened. Like the year that the St. Louis Cardinals won the national league and the American league St. Louis Browns ( who later went to Baltimore and became the Orioles) won that pennat. They both used the old Sportsman's park in St. Louis. It's the only world series all played in the same ballpark with only the dugouts & clubhouses changes. RN

[steve355]

@Angryrnmedic The 1921 and 1922 WS between the Yankees and Giants were all

in the Polo Grounds as it was the home park for both clubs.

[cindyandron]

It was the Golden Age of Baseball because many of the great moments in baseball happened during that era. Some of the greatest players to ever roam a baseball diamond played during that time. Also New York was the mecca of baseball at that point with the Giants, Dodgers, and Yankees playing. One of them or sometimes both of them were in the World Series every year. They also played in some of the most cherished sports venues during those years i.e. Crosley Field, Ebbets Field, etc.

[Mr09204007]

If you'd like to see the "old" American League parks from a player's perspective - take a look at our Timeless Baseball website - some of the footage in COLOR was taken by my father during his major league career - Griffith Stadium, Sportsman's Park, Comiskey Park, Briggs (Tiger) Stadium, Municipal Stadium and of course Fenway (still standing thank goodness) from the early Ted Williams era -

[kisscactus]

It's the same way with cars... they don't make cars (or ballparks) like they used to. Today's baseball stadiums have so little character and uniqueness.

Watching baseball at the Polo Grounds must have been a lot of fun! :)

[JJJerryrum]

i think the one guy on there hit the nail right on the head when he said he would have loved to have spent one year in the 1950's broadcasting baseball the world today is so fucked up alot of people would give anything to go back to a simpler time before luxury suites and restaurants and seen just 1 game in sportsmans park and the polo grounds and shibe and tiger and forbes and ebbets and crosley and comiskey and griffith and the old yankee stadium i kno i would

[MrJLJohnson1986]

@JTDutch It's generally called the "Golden Age" because of its significance in American culture, it was at its height before football began to take over. It was also the era of integration and, although teams began to move out west, that was also part of why it's referred to in that title. The idea that baseball was expanding out west.

[JTDutch]

... Why do they always call the 1950s the "Golden Age" of baseball? It was the decade where baseball was in the most trouble it's ever been. How many other decades saw over 30% of the franchises in baseball relocating to other cities?

[DontCancelThisAcctYT]

I'll take intimacy with posts than the clear views of most of today's run of the mill parks. And do you need 4-star restaurants in a ballpark? How can a batter focus on the pitch when he knows that behind the black batter's screen, a 300 lb man is scarfing down veal parmigiana and linguini.