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The Polo Grounds was the name of three stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used mainly for professional baseball and American football from 1880 to 1963. The original Polo Grounds, opened in 1876 and demolished in 1889, was built for the sport of polo.
The 1883 New York Gothams. The Giants began as the second baseball club founded by millionaire tobacconist John B. Day and veteran amateur baseball player Jim Mutrie.The Gothams, as the Giants were originally known, entered the National League seven years after its 1876 formation, in 1883, while their other club, the Metropolitans played in the rival American Association (1882–1891).
It opened in 2010, replacing Giants Stadium, and serves as the home for the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). It is also scheduled to host the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. At an approximate cost of $1.6 billion, it was the most expensive stadium built in the United States at the time of its completion.
Home of: New York Giants (1889 part – 1890) Location: 155th Street (south, third base); Eighth Avenue (east, first base) – next to site of Polo Grounds Currently: Apartment buildings Polo Grounds as it looked 1911–1923 Polo Grounds (III) / (IV) orig. Brotherhood Park Home of: New York Giants – PL (1890) New York Giants – NL (1891–1957)
Hilltop Park was a ballpark in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the home of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1903 to 1912 when they were known as the "Highlanders". It was also the temporary home of the New York Giants during a two-month period in 1911 while the Polo Grounds was being ...
New York Giants (1924–27) Boston Red Sox (1933–42, 1946–58) Chicago White Sox (1960–88) Demolished (became public park of same name) Pelican Stadium (a.k.a. Heinemann Park) 1915 1957 New Orleans: Brooklyn Dodgers (1921) New York Yankees (1922–1924) Demolished (became Fountainbleau Hotel) Plant City Stadium: 1988 1997 Plant City ...
Giants Stadium finally scrapped the grass in favor of FieldTurf for the 2003 season, a surface that remained in place until the stadium closed. The New York Jets left Shea Stadium and moved to Giants Stadium in 1984 after years of suffering under onerous lease terms imposed at the insistence of baseball's New York Mets. When they moved across ...
MetLife Stadium: New York Giants New York Jets: East Rutherford, New Jersey: 82,500 FieldTurf Core [32] Open 2010 [33] Nissan Stadium: Tennessee Titans: Nashville, Tennessee: 69,143 Matrix Helix Turf with organic infill [34] Open 1999 [35] Northwest Stadium: Washington Commanders: Landover, Maryland: 62,000 Bermuda grass: Open 1997 [36] [37 ...