Mays in action June 2 1962
June 2, 1962 – Willie Mays in action as the Giants take on the Mets in a double header at...
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June 2, 1962 – Willie Mays in action as the Giants take on the Mets in a double header at...
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On March 2, 1909, future Hall of Famer, Mel Ott is born in Gretna, Louisiana. Known as “Master...
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New York Giants Stun Cleveland Indians 1954 World Series The 1954 World Series matched the...
Read MoreThis Day in Ballpark History: Final Sporting Event at Polo Grounds December 14, 1963 New...
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At the Polo Grounds, Pete Rose hits the first pitch of the game from Jay Hook for a homer. It’s the only score as the Reds win, 1 – 0. Jim Maloney strikes out 13 Mets in the win.
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July 14, 1963 – At the Polo Grounds the Houston Colt’s sparked by a three-run triple...
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June 7, 1963 New York Mets Duke Snider hits a three-run walk-off home run to give the Mets a 3-2 win over the Cardinals at the Polo Grounds.
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Al Jackson goes the distance in the Mets’ 15-inning loss to Philadelphia. The hard-luck lefty, who throws an astounding 215 pitches during the contest, gives up only six hits, but third baseman Mel Roach, who entered the game in the 11th inning as a pinch-hitter, strokes a two-run single in the fifteenth frame that proves be the difference in his 3-1 defeat at the Polo Grounds.
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With his sixth home run in three consecutive games, Frank Thomas ties a National League record when he goes deep off Cincinnati’s Joey Jay in the bottom of the seventh inning of a Mets 8-6 loss at the Polo Grounds. The right-handed slugger, who equaled the mark with a pair of round trippers in each game, will add another homer to his club leading total in tomorrow’s contest.
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On June 17, 1962, At the Polo Grounds, during the first inning of the first game of a twin bill...
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On May 12, 1962, New York Mets reliever Craig Anderson wins both ends of a doubleheader against...
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Milwaukee Braves 8, New York Mets 5 Game Played on Friday, May 11, 1962 (N) at Polo Grounds V MIL...
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On September 29, 1957, the New York Giants played their final game at the Polo Grounds, losing to...
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May 17, 1956 – In New York’s Polo Grounds, Warren Spahn outpitched Ruben Gomez for a 7-3 Braves...
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1956 – The New York Giants football team switches its home games to Yankee Stadium, leading to speculation that the baseball team will soon vacate the Polo Grounds as well.
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August 27, 1955 – In 11 innings at the Polo Grounds, the Braves completed a three-game sweep of...
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September 30, 1954 Once again, the visitors started quickly but could not hold their lead. Al...
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September 29, 1954 – Al Rosen of the Cleveland Indians is doing a mighty stretch in an...
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In a game which will be best remembered for Willie Mays making a spectacular over-the-shoulder grab of a ball hit to deep to center field, robbing Vic Wertz of an extra-base hit, Dusty Rhodes becomes the second player in World Series history to end a game with a homer. The Giants pinch-hitter’s walk-off three-run home run off Bob Lemon beats the Indians 5-2 in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.
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On April 29, 1953, Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves becomes the first major league player to...
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Giant reliever Hoyt Wilhelm homers in his first major league at-bat, a fourth-inning blast off Dick Hoover in the team’s 9-5 victory over Boston at the Polo Grounds. During the next 21 years, covering 1070 games and 432 official at-bats, the knuckle-balling future Hall of Fame hurler will never homer again.
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October 3, 1951. Over 34,000 fans came too see this one-game playoff between the New York Giants...
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Monte Irvin clubs two homers off Ralph Branca as the Giants edge the Dodgers, 5 – 4. The second homer, a three-run shot in the 8th, gives the win to reliever Sheldon Jones. The Dodgers now lead the Giants by five games.
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On August 16, 1950, Hank Thompson of the New York Giants hits two inside-the-park home runs at the Polo Grounds in a game against the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. Thompson becomes the first player to achieve the feat since Terry...
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1950 – Sid Gordon of the Boston Braves hits the first National League grand slam of the season, as Boston beats the New York Giants, 10 – 6, at the Polo Grounds. There will be 35 grand slams in the league and 68 in all this year. Both are records but both will later be topped.
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Sam Jethroe, former Cleveland Buckeyes star of the Negro American League, becomes the first black player for the Braves. The 33 year-old highly-touted prospect, who will lead the majors with 35 stolen bases, will be named the National League’s Rookie of the Year.
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At the Polo Grounds, Dodger Rex Barney no-hits the Giants, 2-0. The Brooklyn 23 year-old right-hander had to endure a one-hour rain delay, as well as showers in the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings to finish his gem.
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On April 24, 1947, Johnny Mize of the New York Giants becomes the first major leaguer to hit three...
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On June 23, 1946, Eddie Waitkus and Marv Rickert of the Chicago Cubs hit consecutive...
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On April 15, 1946, Mel Ott hits the 511th – and final – home run of his career. The 37-year-old slugger connects against Oscar Judd of the Philadelphia Phillies. Ott’s milestone blast lifts the New York Giants to an 8-4 victory at the Polo Grounds…
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1942 – Powered by first-inning home runs by Indians shortstop Lou Boudreau and Tigers first baseman Rudy York, the American League All-Stars defeats the National League at the Polo Grounds, 3 – 1. Mickey Owen also homers for the third run. He will not hit a single home run during the regular schedule. The game features the first and only starting sibling battery in All-Star history as losing pitcher Mort Cooper throws to backstop Walker Cooper, his brother.
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August 8, 1940. After a Daily News story reported that the New York Giants’ bullpen had an...
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A crowd of 53,997, a National League record for a night game, watches the Dodgers beat the Giants, 8 – 4, on Mel Ott Night at the Polo Grounds.
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Carl Hubbell is routed when Boston’s Tony Cuccinello, Max West and Elbie Fletcher hit successive 4th-inning homers.
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On June 26, 1938, at the Polo Grounds Carl Hubbell goes the distance in a 5-1 win over the Chicago...
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At the Polo Grounds, Carl Hubbell wins his 4th straight and his 20th in a row, subduing the Cubs, 4 – 1. The game is scoreless for six innings. Hubbell matches the mark of Rube Marquard, who won one game in 1911 and 19 straight more in 1912.
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On July 5, 1935, brothers Tony and Al Cuccinello hit home runs in the same game. Tony homers for...
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Carl Hubbell’s 45.1 consecutive scoreless innings streak ends when Randy Moore strokes a two-run single in the sixth inning of the Giants’ 3-1 loss to Boston at the Polo Grounds. By blanking Boston for the first five frames, the future Hall of Fame southpaw surpasses Ed Ruelbach’s National League mark of 44 innings established in 1908 with the Cubs.
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At the Polo Grounds, umpire Charlie Pfirman officiates in his 1,700th consecutive National League game, as Carl Hubbell leads the New York Giants to a 1 – 0 victory over Fred Frankhouse the Boston Braves.
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Prior to a pre-season contest in New York, (and exactly one week before Schoolboy Rowe’s official major league debut), the highly touted Tigers pitching prospect launches a batting practice bomb into the Polo Grounds’ center-field bleachers, a feat never before performed since the stadium’s 1923 reconfiguration. It will be more than 15 years—July 18, 1948, to be precise—before Rowe’s feat is finally matched in the course of a game, by Negro Leaguer Luke Easter, and roughly 20—i.e. April 29, 1953—before the first major league version, courtesy of Joe Adcock.
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Brooklyn’s 10-inning, 2-1 victory over the Giants at the Polo Grounds makes reliever John Quinn, at the age of 49, the oldest player to win a major league game. Johnny Frederick, who will have a total of only six home runs during the entire season, hits a ninth inning game-tying homer off Carl Hubbell, his fourth round-tripper as a pinch hitter, establishing a new major-league record.
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1924 – At the Polo Grounds, Brooklyn ace Dazzy Vance wins his 13th in a row, beating the Giants and pulling the Robins within a half game of the top.
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On October 15, 1923, .At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth two-out homer in the first started the...
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October 11, 1923 – After hitting his 2nd homer of the game, this one in the 5th inning, and...
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Behind Art Nehf’s complete game five-hitter, the Giants repeat as World Champions, sweeping the Yankees in five games, including one tie. George Kelly’s RBI single fuels the comeback 5-3 victory during the three-run eighth inning at the Polo Grounds.
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1922 – For the first time, the entire World Series will be broadcast over the radio. Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing of the New York Giants-New York Yankees Series for station WJZ, in Newark, NJ, whose signal is relayed to WGY in Schenectady, NY.
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1922 – The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A’s, 10 – 3, in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the A’s in the second, 2 – 1. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, and then open in Yankee Stadium next spring.
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At age 31, pitcher Dazzy Vance makes his Brooklyn Robins debut and loses to Phil Douglas and the New York Giants, 4 – 3. In 1915, when Vance made one start for the Pirates, it was Douglas who beat him. Since then Vance has been in the minor leagues. Despite his late start, Vance will win 197 games in a 16-season career and a place in the Hall of Fame in 1955.
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