*One correction, the Giants were known as the “Gothams” previously at the first Polo Grounds, the Metropolitans were a separate Franchise who played there.

I'm a huge SF Giants fan and I once visited where the Polo Grounds used to be. There is also a plaque that marks the approximate location of home plate at the Polo Grounds housing.

My dad took me to the Polo Grounds in the early 1950s to see the Giants, my favorite team at that time, play the Pittsburgh Pirates. I saw my favorite baseball player, Willie Mays, make a fantastic, over the shoulder catch to take away an extra base hit. Wow, what special memories, a real treat for a youngster!

Yankee Stadium on the hill across the river. And I remember looking down into the Polo Grounds from outside Yankee Stadium when I was a kid. So close together!

my father was a big Brooklyn Dodger fan I went to the polo grounds In 1957 with him to see the Dodgers and Giants .I was 7 .Jonny antonelli against don drysdale .the Dodgers won 1 to 0 After the game they let you walk on the field to exit .I still remember looking up at stands and the lights . Never forget it after all these years.

The Polo Grounds also hosted the Championship game of Gaelic Football in 1947. The game between Kerry and Cavan was the first and only time the All Ireland final was played outside Ireland.

Went to several games there in '62 & '63 as a 10 & 11 year old Mets fan. 60 years later I'm still true to the Orange & Blue.

My dad would take me to the Polo Grounds in late 40s. Always sat in right field seats; close enough to talk the players. Great time.

As a kid one of the things that frightened me was passing the polo grounds when the demolition was happening. Really made me sad.

As a huge fan of old time baseball I would have loved to have gone to a game at the Polo Grounds

As an MLB The Show player, this stadium is the bane of my existence

I would LOVE to see the polo grounds rebuilt. The Mets missed an opportunity when they build Citi Field. The Field of Dreams game proved the fans crave nostalgia, and a rebuilt polo grounds would have drawn HUGE.

SF Giants fan here, thanks for this. I love hearing and seeing the history of the franchise from its original roots in NYC.

The Jets and the Titans are the same franchise; they changed their name to Jets in 1963.

One of MLB's former ballparks I wish I could have watched a game at.

All I remember as a kid was that Lou Brock hit one 460 feet off of Al Jackson. Lou Brock was a tremendous athlete.

I wish we had a ballpark with these kinds of bananas dimensions today.

The Polo Grounds should have been preserved. So much sports history was written there. Imagine being able to visit today and see the old baseball diamond and walk in the outfield where Willie Mays made that legendary catch.

1:23 Babe Ruth hit 54 and 59 HR in the polo grounds, which had 450 foot fence in right field, before Yankee Stadium was built. This makes his superman.

I saw one Mets game there in 1963 in the stadium's final year. It had an awesome baseball atmosphere.

Big fact: the main reason the Giants moved out west is that the Dodgers had made a handshake deal to move to L.A. and the league would only approve the relocation if another team went with them. The owners of both teams got together and struck a deal with the league, so they both went out west the same season.

483ft to dead center when the Giants played there, and 475ft when the Mets played in '62 and '63. I'm always trying to find pictures, and documentation on the 2nd Polo Grounds, later known as Manhattan field. It was an odd, but interesting little park with very strange dimensions that somehow managed to make dead center the most shallow part of the outfield

That Willy Mays Catch was 436 ft long

I just bought MLB The Show 2022 and you can play at this field. It's really fun. I've hit 440 ft drives to dead center that were (barely) caught for outs but if you pull it down the lines it's like 250! Fun ripping liners off the facade or hitting moonshots onto the roof. They have a bunch of old parks, including Sportsman's Park which my dad and grandpa went to before Busch Stadium I was built in the mid-'60s.

When I was a kid I received a set of mini baseball stadium replicas; included were Wrigley, Fenway, and the original Yankee Stadium (this being when it was still open), along with Ebbets Field, Tiger Stadium and-of course-the Polo Grounds. I knew about the Giants having been in NY, but I didn't know where they played, and was amazed at how much their stadium resembled a football stadium more than baseball

Excellent video. I was born in 58 so I missed this era. If you can do a video on Dexter Park in Cypress Hills. Many great players passed through this park. Thank you

Thanks for making this! I always love learning more about the past of the Giants

A stadium with character.

my favorite place to play on mlb the show, haha

That was a great one to do you should do Ebbetts field next and still think maybe you can do memorial stadium in Baltimore and the RCA dome too?

i can remember goint to the Polo Grounds to see the original Mets play. Incredible that it was over 480 feet to dead center. If I remember correctly, the club house was located in a portion of the stadium in center field so the players had to walk all the way out there to get to their locker rooms. I remember the video of Bobby Thompsons home run and Ralph Branca and the rest of the Dodgers having to walk all the way out there as the Giants celebrated winnig the pennant. Talk about adding to the pain! I grew up playing baseball in Roosevelt Stadium in Union City, NJ which had similar, all though not quite, as big as the Polo Grounds. I believe Roosevelt Stadium was 460 to dead center and under 300, at least down the right field line. Great video. Thanks!

I remember being overwhelmed by the size and scope of this stadium in May of 1962 as i watched from the cheap seats in left field as the METS dropped 2 to the DODGERS on their return to the east. Of all the features of the plant, I think I was impressed the most by the fact that the visitors bullpen was on the warning track just below us.

The Polo Grounds is the only MLB stadium to be the primary home stadium for 3 different teams with Giants, Yankees and Mets. I believe County Stadium in Milwaukee has hosted Braves, Brewers and White Sox games but the White Sox it was just for a handful of games for a few years, never their primary home stadium.

I play at this field most of the time in mlb the show for PS5 - this was the most stood out stadium that ever existed! I wish they never destroyed it - I could only imagine how it would look now

Hey forgotten places! I have a quick video suggestion, I think you should make a video on the rise of Orlando. Me and my grandparents were driving through Orlando and noticed just how much it has grown. They said it was nothing but orange groves and trailer parks until Disney came in. Keep up the great work on your videos!

Waited for this vid forever

I wish current stadiums would have a CF wall as far back as the one in the Polo Grounds. Nowadays, owners are more worried about casual fans cheering for home runs.

My Dad grew up as a fan of both New York Giants teams and often told stories of his pastor treating the altar boys to games at the Polo Grounds. They would sit in the center field bleachers which doubled as end zone seating for football.

I am a lifetime baseball fan, and I have heard about the Polo Grounds from the beginning, but this is the first article, story, or video that I have ever seen or heard about the facility itself.

She was an important part of baseball history, let her not be forgotten

When I was a mere stripling living in Brooklyn, my late father was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and when National League baseball left NYC, there was a void in his ( and many others ) hearts. When the Mets brought NL baseball back to NYC in 1962, I was almost 3 years old and just barely remember going to the Polo Grounds. I recall absolutely nothing about the game, just how big the stadium was.

Gone but never Forgotten!

The Bobby Thomson home run was pretty famous too. THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!!

I'd give almost anything to have been able to see a ballgame there.. a Dodger/Giants game would have been awesome.

Very interesting, thank you for posting this.

Quick corrections; It wasn't actually IN Central Park - It was across 110th st, adjacent to Central Park. Second, saying that they moved from Central Park to Manhattan is redundant. Central Park is in Manhattan.

I grew up in New Jersey and we were giant fans . The last time I went to the polo grounds was in 1963 to see the Mets play the SF Giants . I don’t recall much about the game as I was 13 and I’m 72 now but I do remember seeing a football game here as kid , an AFL game with the titans I guess . The short right and left field porch was so weird with such a deep center field . My father called anyone who hit a homer down the line a “ Chinee Homer “ . The meaning was that it was cheap . He told me Mell Ott hit 500 home runs but 350 were Chinee! 😝

What's crazy about the Polo Grounds is, with its what we would consider insane (middle-school foul lines, gargantuan CF) dimensions, the two plays it's best known for would be impossible today: the Shot Heard 'Round the World would be off the Monster at Fenway and a routine fly ball anywhere else, while the smash that Willie May's ran down and Caught would be so far gone that the center fielder wouldn't even bother turning around, much less giving chase.

Once located at 155th and Fredrick Douglas Blvd which is now an Apartment Complex

I just love your content

Very cool little video

There were some famous boxing matches there: Dempsey/Firpo, Louis/Conn 1 and the rematch of Patterson/Johansson.

I “went” to the Polo Grounds a few weeks ago when I time traveled via Classic Baseball on the Radio for a Sunday 1963!Doubleheader ( If I don’t know what happened it’s live no matter how many years later) between the Mets and Pirates. In reality The Polo Grounds was before

My father and grandfather were both NY Giants fans, and took me to games in the early 1960s when the Mets played there (terrible teams, but fun banner parades and Casey Stengel humor). I remember ALMOST snagging a foul ball, which slid beneath my rickety seat, and also recall sitting in outfield seats with impeded site lines, where you could only see part of the infield.

Along with Ebbet's, my two favorite stadiums.

July-August 1958 saw an event that filled both te Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, a commemorative plaque can be found on the Monument Walk

I saw a Mets game in Polo Grounds during their first year. Also went to a NY Titans football game. The stadium looked like it was about to fall down.

I seen tweets at the poll grounds.i was a young gamer school kid with a packed lunch on the bus with the local playground summer for kids.i loved it.

Gotta do a video of the historic Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey.

Leaving a piece of the stairway. Cool.

I would like to see an aerial view of the site now.

Cool video!

Home run Derby at polo ground lol. You're lucky to pull them down the line ahaha

Well Done!

man I would kill to see a polo grounds game, it would be so cool.

The field of dreams game was such a success, mlb needs to rebuild a replica stadium (actual location tbd) and play one game there every year. I’m sure they would need to make some ADA and other adjustments for safety but otherwise make it exactly the same. The demand would be massive

What an unique baseball park. It’s a playable stadium in MLB The Show

Interesting video

Nice job.

Verry cool Video watch the Video in my lunch break at 1 p.m.

It was also the site of the Dempsey-Firpo fight in 1923.

How about Roosevelt Stadium. Jersey City, NJ

Imagine if they built a stadium like that today. Home runs would be a rarity.

Does anyone know if anyone hit a homer to dead center field? I know in the old Yankee stadium when center field was 461, Mickey Mantle and Bill Skowren would bet who would hit the most homers over the center field fence during the season.

Nice video

0:54 my life long question for 30 years of what a "met" has finally been answered. Ahhhhhh

I saw what you did with that one photo fairly early on. You didnt want to show the man giving the finger that looked like a cigar but was indeed the bird.

Well the Polo Grounds had the kind of character that simply doesn't exist in todays stadiums. They were more intimate with the fans more connected to the players. But, modern stadiums have box sections for the wealthy, large screens to show replays and scores, and are generally better at protecting the spectators from the weather.

I saw my first major league games there when the Mets played there. I remember silver haired Duke Snyder playing center field

Isn't the Polo Grounds also the place in 1951 when " the Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant".

Just found out that the light structures were saved and are currently in use at Arizona states baseball field.

The baseball Giants were planning on moving to the Twin Cites in Minnesota, then Walter O'Malley decided to move the Dodgers to L.A. MLB wouldn't allow it unless another NL team went to California with them. Thus the Giants moved to San Francisco.

Seems like the Giants should have stayed in New York. Their net worth would be higher than it would be in San Francisco today most likely. I guess low attendance in 1957 forced them to do it.

I just played wiffle ball at the restored Katy Park at the Silos in Waco Tx yesterday. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig among others played there when the Waco Pirates were a minor league team there. Ruths bronze footprints are embedded at home plate where he once stood. I love historic old ball parks. I hit one off the fence but didnt get a homer. Maybe next time.

Great video. Just one correction, the Jets & Titans were the same franchise.

There is also a plaque in the housing project

Very neat

Oh, never poopoo a nickel, Lisa! A nickel will get you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake, AND a newsreel, with enough change to take the trolley from Battery Park to the Polo Grounds!

Now Baseball fans can witness the struggle of getting HRs in this stadium in MLB The Show

The Polo Grounds looks like a place where fast hitters could hit a bunch of inside the park home runs just by getting the ball past the outfielders.

I saw a frank howard blast into the night next to a roof top light stanchion 45 ° angle 1962

And we MUST bring back "handlebar mustaches".

I wish I had seen both the polo grounds and ebbets field, I was born after the moves

Playing there in MLB The Show 23 feels nostalgic

All five professional teams in one stadium.

Well, the "Fall" part of the Polo Grounds wasn't really its own fault at all. Ballpark designs were rapidly changing in the 1960's, and sadly settled into the Cookie Cutter dimensions that MLB has never gone away from since. A farfetched theory of mine is that if they really wanted to, the Mets could have spent more than enough money to renovate the Polo Grounds to the point where they wouldn't have needed Shea Stadium in the first place. It's sad to know that MLB (and any organized baseball league for that matter) will never try bold and daring ballpark dimensions like the Polo Grounds again, because I believe that is one of the key things sorely affecting baseball's popularity. The sport has become unimaginative, unfriendly, and over the top greedy against the fans.

They should rebuild the polo grounds in real life and inter league series

This is where Floyd Patterson regained the World Heavyweight title from Ingemar Johansson. Pow!

I don’t know how long Bobby Thomsen’s famous pennant-winning home run has been estimated to have been, but I’ve always assumed it wouldn’t have even _been_ a home run in another ballpark.

Me who just discovered this park through mlb the show 23… me now sad wishing this stadium was alive again 😂 no matter what though, not even Aaron judge can but a homer in the outfield of polo. Don’t know if they have a blocker or what, but it’s impossible. Sammy sosa can definitely crank one out, but they have to have a blocker on it prohibiting it