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By Al Hunter| Weekly View@ On Sunday, September 29, 1957, a crowd of 11,606 came to the Polo Grounds to see Willie Mays play his last game for the New York Giants. Based on the illustrious baseball legacy of the New York Giants, you’d think that all 54,555 seats in the old Polo Grounds on Coogan’s Bluff in the Bronx, just across the ravine from Yankee Stadium, would be filled. Instead, the stands seemed virtually empty, less than a quarter of capacity.
By Al Hunter| Weekly View@ This column first appeared in April 2014. Fifty years ago this month, an American baseball shrine breathed it’s last breath. On April 10, 1964, a two-ton steel wrecking ball crashed into the side of the Polo Grounds located beneath Coogan’s Bluff in upper Manhattan. The walls came crashing down under the same wrecking ball (painted to look like a baseball) that had been used four years earlier to knock down Ebbets Field.
By Al Hunter| Weekly View@ On Sunday, September 29, 1957, a crowd of 11,606 came to the Polo Grounds to see Willie Mays play his last game for the New York Giants. Based on the illustrious baseball legacy of the New York Giants, you’d think that all 54,555 seats in the old Polo Grounds on Coogan’s Bluff in the Bronx, just across the ravine from Yankee Stadium, would be filled. Instead, the stands seemed virtually empty, less than a quarter of capacity.
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