Ben Hogan wins US Open
My life would be complete if I had access to all of the photos used in Ken Burns’ “Baseball” documentary... pictures of those old farm sandlots that all the townpeople played on, the first American professional ball fields - the ones where the fans could be found packed along the INSIDE of the outfield fence! Nostalgia overload. Would love to have some hung about my house.
They are so hard to find online it seems... here is one that I could find easily that leaves me in awe.
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Way before my time as well but like you I enjoy the replay. Look at all that space around Willie !This is one I was going to post but got sidetracked and forgot about it. Well before my time, but I can watch that replay anytime.
The Polo Grounds was squeezed into a narrow city block where they did not have enough room down the lines and where they had too much room elsewhere.Way before my time as well but like you I enjoy the replay. Look at all that space around Willie !
I hear you but Christie Brinkley was my favorite. Paulina was up there too.Not bad but I always had a preference for the Cheryl Tiegs NSFW one.
That's a Syracuse football player defending her!
The Polo Grounds was squeezed into a narrow city block where they did not have enough room down the lines and where they had too much room elsewhere.
Look at a diagram of the park. 258 to the right field line. 484 to dead center.
I believe you can see that little chunk of center field that extends into beyond the normal outfield wall just to Willie's left. He was probably 450 feet from home plate when he made the catch.
To me, a really cool thing was how close Yankee Stadium was to the Polo Grounds. They were a quarter of a mile apart, just across the East River from each other.
You can see the unmistakable outline of the Polo Grounds (in Manhattan in the lower left hand corner), with Yankee Stadium up top in the Bronx.
That's a Syracuse football player defending her!
Yup, clean - it’s a play on!That is my least favorite picture ever because it's when I realized once and for all that a foul is usually no longer a foul in college basketball, the best of all sports and the one with the most broken officiating.