 | Polo Grounds during World Series game, 1913. Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b16684 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b16684. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-69242 (b&w film copy neg.) |
Title: Baseball parks - Polo Grounds during World Series game, 1913. Date Created/Published: 1913. Medium: 1 photographic print. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-69242 (b&w film copy neg.)
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Call Number: LOT 11147-3 item [P&P] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
Notes: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Format: Photographic prints--1910-1920. Collections: Bain Collection
The Polo Grounds was the name given to four different stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used by baseball's New York Metropolitans from 1880 until 1885, New York Giants from 1883 until 1957, the New York Yankees from 1912 until 1922, by the New York Mets in their first two seasons of 1962 and 1963, the New York Football Giants of the National Football League from 1925 to 1955 and by the New York Titans in the American Football League 1960 until 1962 and the successor New York Jets of the American Football League 1963. It also hosted the 1934 and 1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Games. From Wikipedia Polo Grounds
the "Shot Heard 'round the World" is the term given to the game-ending home run hit by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson (October 25, 1923 – August 16, 2010) off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant at 3:58 p.m. EST on October 3, 1951. Shot Heard 'Round the World
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