Friday: 7 June 2009
Happy Father's Day : June 21.
Someone else's Dad but the photo rekindles the memories. Business and
worries were not on his agenda for the day. It was Dad's day (or son's day) going to the
ballpark to root for our team. Nothing else on our minds but the crack of the bat,
the crowd cheering on the home team. Throw in a bag of popcorn, coke, pretzel and
a hotdog to top it off. I'll never forget those days. That's some 50 years ago but
it's fresh on my memory as if it were yesterday. Thanks for the memories. Happy
Father's Day.
New products that are arriving.
New arrivals coming in for these new 100% cotton/6.5 oz tee-shirts with
center chest logo is a jersey applique.
Left sleeve logo is a flock print.
Mitchell & Ness woven jocktag on lower left hem. For more teams Click Here.
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Equipped with Script.
When one thinks of the quintessential baseball uniform, it is often adorned with a team or city name angled across the shirt front in script lettering. The first big league club to use this design was the 1914 Federal League Buffalo Blues (also known as the Buffeds). It was not until 1930 that the script lettering was reintroduced into big league baseball. In that year, the Detroit Tigers adopted the style that has since been embraced by nearly every major league club at some time during its history. The earliest known use of script lettering on any professional team uniform is 1902, when the style was used by both Oakland and San Francisco of the California League.
At left: Members of the 1914 Federal League Buffalo Blues
Click here > for more of lettering trivia.
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Cooperstown Gift Mall !!
Field raised 4 feet in 1949 to help with drainage. On 1609 and 1874 maps, the location is shown to be underneath the Harlem River. The water table was only 2 to 6 feet below the playing surface, and drainage was complicated by rainwater cascading off the 115-foot-high Coogan's Bluff down onto the site.
In 1929 the first attempt was made to wire umpires for sound and connect them to the PA System. It didn?t work very well.
Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World" homer occurred here at 4:11 PM on October 3, 1951 against the Dodgers and ended the "Greatest Game Ever Played."
Demolition started on April 10, 1964, using the same wrecking ball that had demolished Ebbets Field.
The Polo Grounds Towers (four 30-story apartment buildings) now stand where the field used to be. Willie Mays Field (an asphalt playground with 6 basketball backboards) is where center field used to be; a brass historical marker notes the spot.
