Farewell Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field (1958)

spark of excitement until the game ended then bedlam the Polo Grounds New York home of the old Giants and a shrine to such legendary figures as John McGraw Christy Mathewson and other old-timers and in later years the stars like filtery who get 401 in 1930 a lot who get 511 home runs the all-time high in the National League and Carl Hubbell who can forget Hubble speed in these Polo Grounds in the 1934 all-star game when he found the American League's murderous roll down went Ruth Lou Gehrig [Music] Jimmy Fox also Al Simmons and Jill playoff with Brooklyn winning the pennant for the Giants [Applause] and here pick words hip must look like the game-winning drive in the first game of the 1954 World Series and Willie Mays made the game saving catch that sent the Giants onto a four-game sweep over Cleveland just three years later the Giants stunned New York by their move to San Francisco mrs. John McGraw came to say a last goodbye the Giants ran out on that historic diamond for the last time it was more like a funeral than a ballgame Pittsburgh won the dunk contest 91 there wasn't a spark of excitement until the last out then bedlam broke loose the fans pulled out of the stands as if at a pre-arranged signal the Giants flared as if pursued by demons [Music] fans all over the bases [Music] they scooped up bits of that hallowed ground and long after the game ended they stood massed in front of the clubhouse pleading for another miracle at Coogan's fluff but the Giants would never again play in the Polo Ground the end of the trail for one of the most storied baseball parks in the land where the now staid Los Angeles Dodgers once earned such nicknames as the Daffy Dodgers and dem bums here is where the Dodger legends were born [Applause] in exciting Theory standing-room was at a premium those who got seats were usually real character [Applause] the symphony band serenaded his hero [Applause] the beanball was not unknown in Ebbets Field they used to say everything happened there [Music] the robot flourish in its own [Applause] but great feats were performed to Duke Snider hit many a big homerun here's one that helped the Dodgers pull out of Canada look Ross only a few days before the season end [Music] [Applause] and prodigious catches like this one by the Duke with choice items for the Brooklyn fan of course the fondest memories are the pennants the Brooks one this was one of the most exciting if is not fence until the final out of the final game of the season it was the last big one input [Applause] [Music] now Emmett's field shrine of Flatbush will make way for apartment houses the old ballpark standing for nearly half a century comes to the end of the trail the stands for thousands once Ward await another kind of wrecking crew boom played his dug up to find a niche in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown at the sad ceremony Roy Campanella surrounded by old Dodger players Tommy Holmes Ralph Branca and Carl Erskine they want stoic ly for the demolition of their old playground now it's play ball again but not the sort Dodger fans cheer [Music] this time Emmet's field itself is struck [Music]

Channel: Classic Sports Pictures

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Keywords: Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants Last Game in Polo Grounds, Brooklyn Dodgers Last Game in Ebbets Field, Demolition of Ebbets Field

Id: KiKC-pIIWV8

Length: 5min 31sec (331 seconds)

Published: Sun May 20 2018