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The Polo Grounds. The name conjures ... John Day, the owner of the New York Giants baseball team, decided to move his club from its home at 110th St. which just happened to be a polo field to a ...
Ronald Harvin Jr., of Brooklyn, New York, re-creates Willie May's iconic stickball swing during a tour of the old Polo Grounds with the New York Giants Preservation Society.
The Brush Stairway at Highbridge Park on the old Polo Grounds received a recent facelift and was unveiled in a ribbon cutting ceremony. But on Thursday, the city took a step toward remembering.
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- On the corner of 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem there's now a big housing development, but it used to be a ballpark. The Polo Grounds were home of ...
The Polo Grounds! The storied venue that once sat perched on the upper end of Manhattan played host to, among other sports spectacles, Giants home games for much of their New York history.
Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, sitting on a bicycle and Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Mets, are seen in New York's Polo Grounds during a tribute to Mays on May 3, 1963.
Probably the most famous moments at the final Polo Grounds were Bobby Thompson’s “Shot heard round the world” in 1951 and “The Catch” by Willie Mays in game one of the 1954 World Series.