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1957 TA Baseball Schedule |
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Posted by X-Astorian on Sat Apr 14 09:35:07 2018 The last year for a three team New York.Aren't running times shown just about the same today?  
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 15:05:20 2018, in response to 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by X-Astorian on Sat Apr 14 09:35:07 2018. 1957- the year the old City died! |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Apr 14 16:24:17 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 15:05:20 2018. The Sept 29 game was the last one the Giants played at the Polo Grounds. I was at that game but sadly, the Giants lost to Pittsburgh. |
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Posted by zac on Sat Apr 14 17:21:08 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 15:05:20 2018. I saw the Mets at the Polo Grounds. It may have been my first baseball game.I saw the Mets play the Dodgers and the Giants many times at Shea. I was at the 1969 playoff game 3 where they won the NL pennant I was at the 1969 world series where they won. I always mention this when I see MIB 3 to whoever is there. I saw the Beatles at Shea. That's a bit off topic, except as always I took the subway. The city didn't die in 1957. It was a much slower near death than that. And it is more alive than ever. |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat Apr 14 17:51:22 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 15:05:20 2018. 1957- the year the old City died! There was a story making the rounds in Brooklyn after the Dodgers left. "You're in a room with Stalin, Hitler and Walter O'Malley (owner of the Dodgers). You have a gun with only two bullets. Who do you shot? The answer: O'Malley TWICE. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 18:24:02 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sat Apr 14 17:51:22 2018. Actually, I would have saved one of those bullets for Robert Moses. His hatred of the O'Malley family started with a political feud with Walter's father, dating back to the Hylan administration. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 18:30:49 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by randyo on Sat Apr 14 16:24:17 2018. I'm surprised that Robert Moses didn't offer the Giants the new stadium in Queens, instead of the Dodgers. Guess that they just didn't draw enough fans at the Polo Grounds to promise them that! |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sat Apr 14 19:32:01 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by zac on Sat Apr 14 17:21:08 2018. I remember the '69 Miracle Mets very well. |
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Posted by northshore on Sat Apr 14 20:33:48 2018, in response to 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by X-Astorian on Sat Apr 14 09:35:07 2018. Go West young man! |
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Posted by andy on Sat Apr 14 22:23:19 2018, in response to 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by X-Astorian on Sat Apr 14 09:35:07 2018. Great posting. Thanks!I was at two of the games on the schedules shown. May 25, 1957 at Ebbets (Brooklyn vs. NY Giants; Giants won 8-7 thanks to Willie Mays hitting a double, triple, and home run). June 22, 1957 at Yankee Stadium (NYY vs. Chicago White Sox; Yankees won in 13 innings 6-5 thanks to a Yogi Berra walkoff home run). Ah, the memories! |
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Posted by X-Astorian on Sun Apr 15 00:18:49 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by andy on Sat Apr 14 22:23:19 2018. You're welcome - glad you liked it. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Apr 15 10:08:32 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by andy on Sat Apr 14 22:23:19 2018. IINM Mays hit 20 triples in '57. |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 15 17:44:33 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 18:30:49 2018. From what I have heard, the Giants wanted to leave NY even before the Dodgers thought of it so it’s doubtful that a stadium in Queens would have enticed them to stay. |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 15 18:00:33 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 18:24:02 2018. IAWTP! |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 15 18:38:53 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by zac on Sat Apr 14 17:21:08 2018. "The city didn't die in 1957."True, but Brooklyn had its heart ripped out. If Brooklyn remained as an independent city, then that phrase would be a better fit. |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Apr 15 20:31:57 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 15 18:38:53 2018. True, but Brooklyn had its heart ripped out. It was a double whammy for the Brooklyn railfans. They lost the trolleys in 56 and the Dodgers in 57. Steeplechase Park didn't last much longer either. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by northshore on Sun Apr 15 21:29:59 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Sun Apr 15 20:31:57 2018. Hipsters have revitalized Brooklyn |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Apr 15 23:07:16 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by northshore on Sun Apr 15 21:29:59 2018. Yeah, but it was a hard 50 yrs from that last pitch. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Apr 16 05:29:10 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by randyo on Sun Apr 15 17:44:33 2018. The Giants struggled after Durocher left as manager. They were a second division team in '56 and '57, the only bright spot being Willie Mays. |
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Posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Mon Apr 16 09:19:36 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by randyo on Sun Apr 15 17:44:33 2018. Stoneham was out the door. anyways - he had his AAA franchise in Minneapolis, and a new stadium being built there. O'Malley needed a second team out there to make scheduling out there feasible. He did some of the groundwork for Stoneham, then got him drunk, and took him to the site of Candlestick at 1 in the afternoon - before the cold wind started, and sold him on the Bay area... |
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Posted by andy on Mon Apr 16 09:52:06 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Sat Apr 14 18:30:49 2018. In 1956 Manhattan borough president Hulan Jack unveiled a plan for a 100,000 seat stadium for the Giants on the Far West Side, to be built atop the NY Central RR 60th Street Yards. Nothing ever came of this proposal because, as other posters noted, Giant owner Horace Stoneham had already decided to decamp to Minneapolis where the team had its top minor league franchise. Then Walter O'Malley stepped in and convinced Stoneham to bring the Giants to San Francisco so that the two teams could continue their storied rivalry on the West Coast. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Apr 16 12:47:09 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by andy on Mon Apr 16 09:52:06 2018. National League president, Warren Giles, had told O'Malley that he would approve the move from Brooklyn, only if another team went west with him. So, who would move? The New York Giants suffered from a fan loss because the neighborhoods around the Polo Grounds were changing. Long time residents were fleeing to the suburbs, especially after the Colonial Park (now Rangel) Houses were completed in 1951, on the site of the old 159th St el yards. On a personal note, my father used to sell hot dogs at the Polo Grounds. |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Apr 16 14:26:25 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Elkeeper on Mon Apr 16 12:47:09 2018. I remember thinking that tenants in the Colonial Pk Houses who lived on the south side of the complex would have a great view of games being played at the Polo Grounds. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Apr 16 22:10:00 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Mon Apr 16 09:19:36 2018. There are those who say Mays would have broken Ruth's all-time home run record (or at least reached the 714 plateau before Hank Aaron) if he'd played in a home park without all that wind. |
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Posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Tue Apr 17 10:01:10 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Apr 16 22:10:00 2018. Mays would have done fine in Minnesota - Metropolitan Stadium turned out to be pretty hitter friendly over the years. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Apr 17 19:04:51 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Lou From Middletown NY on Tue Apr 17 10:01:10 2018. Willie was hitting .477 for the Minneapolis Millers in early 1951 when he was called up to the Giants. One day in Milwaukee he hit a live drive so hard it went right through the outfield fence. Instead of repairing it, a circle was painted around the hole. |
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Posted by Bob Andersen on Thu Apr 19 10:53:35 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by zac on Sat Apr 14 17:21:08 2018. I was at that 1969 playoff game, too. I still have my ticket stub somewhere. Upper deck way out in right field. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Apr 19 19:56:58 2018, in response to Re: 1957 TA Baseball Schedule, posted by Bob Andersen on Thu Apr 19 10:53:35 2018. Nolan Ryan came in to relieve Gary Gentry and was the winning pitcher. |
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