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Polo Grounds (III) (left) and Manhattan Field (aka Polo Grounds II) (right) c.1900. Polo Grounds III was the stadium that made the name nationally famous. Built in 1890, it initially had a completely open outfield bounded by just the outer fence, but bleachers were gradually added. By the early 1900s, some bleacher sections encroached on the ...
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The Polo Grounds was located on the Manhattan side of the Harlem River, at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. Huston and Ruppert purchased the lumberyard from William Waldorf Astor for $600,000, equal to $10.9 million today. Construction began May 5, 1922 and Yankee Stadium opened to the public less than a year later.
Historic Babe Ruth professional model bat once displayed at Polo Grounds sold for $1,850,000. The bat was assigned the highest grade (GU10) by @PSAcard in addition to being photo matched to 1921 ...
Opening Day for the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds as the newly built Yankee Stadium is visible in the background, circa April 26, 1923. Items portrayed in this file
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Giants, Sept 1912. Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
The Polo Grounds Towers from Coogan's Bluff Polo Grounds Towers from West 155th Street, with the Macombs Dam Bridge and the Bronx in the background The 15.15-acre (6.13 ha) hollow, bordered by Frederick Douglass Boulevard , West 155th Street and Harlem River Drive , is currently home to the Polo Grounds Towers housing complex: four 30-story ...