Three thousand spectators witnessed the ground-breaking ceremony for the $18,000,000 Municipal Stadium in the Queen’s Flushing Meadow Park. The future home of the Mets, as well as the NFL’s Titans, is expected to ready for Opening Day in 1963, will be known as Shea Stadium in honor of Bill Shea, the lawyer who helped to bring back the National League to the Big Apple.
On Candlestick Point, an area in which the rocks resembled candlesticks, construction begins on the Giants’ new ballpark in San Francisco. The transplanted team will play their games at Seals Stadium until a new ballpark on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay is ready.
October 28, 1954 – Ace lefty Warren Spahn underwent surgery in an Oklahoma City hospital to repair his damaged left knee. The previous day, Spahn’s partner in crime Lew Burdette went under the knife in Milwaukee to fix a hernia.
Major league owners vote down the sale of the Philadelphia A’s to a hometown syndicate. A week later the Mack family sells a controlling interest to Arnold Johnson, who will move the team to Kansas City.
Red Barber resigns as a Brooklyn Dodger broadcaster and will take the ‘catbird’ seat with the rival New York Yankees. The ‘Old Redhead’ is reported to have left the team because he was upset with Brooklyn owner Walter O’Malley, who refused to support him when he failed to get a higher fee from Gillette, the sponsor of the 1953 World Series on television.
The Red Sox trade catcher Les Moss and flychaser Tom Wright to the Browns for backstop Gus Niarhos and outfielder Ken Wood. The deal will have little impact in Boston (6th place) and in St. Louis (7th place) as both teams will finish in the second division.
On Lou Boudreau Day, held in his honor by the citizens of his hometown, Harvey (IL), the Indians skipper tells an audience his Indians were lucky to win the recent World Series. The Cleveland player-manager cites his infielders driving in more than 400 runs and the lack of injuries to key players as reasons why his “third-place” club excelled this season.
Giuseppe DiMaggio, a retired fisherman, and his celebrated baseball star son, Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees, examine the day’s catch on the stern of the crab fishing boat operated by Joe’s brother Mike in San Francisco, Oct 28 1937 Later after the US and Italy are at war , Giuseppe DiMaggio would be…
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