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Obstructed views at Mets game are tradition

How about this awesome find!

With all the talk of obstructed views at Citifield and whether the tickets should be labelled as such, I found this ticket stub from the Polo Grounds 1963. The obstructed view obviously was a girder and that was my seat. These seats were only sold during a sellout so there must of been over 55,000 there. Also note that there is no game or date designation for these seats.

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This is a shot from an actual seat at Wrigley Field. Surprisingly it was unused so I sat down and snapped this pic. I imagine the Polo Grounds had similar issues.

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3-D Tour Of The Polo Grounds

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This is way cool. For those of you under 30, or those who own major league baseball teams - the Polo Grounds was the first home of the New York Mets, and also is rumored to have been home of a team called the New York Giants who according to legend played in New York around the same time as the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Amazing Mystery of The New York Giants (Part 2)

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Yesterday we told you about a rumored baseball team that called itself "The New York Giants." We here at the Mets Police do not believe this team actually existed, because if they did, surely the Mets would not have totally ignored them while constructing Citifield.

However, some do believe, and are going at great lengths to perpetuate this fraud.

Look at this carefully created World Series program from 1954. Are we really supposed to believe that this alleged "New York Giants" won the World Series in 1954, and they are never ever mentioned in the new Citifield design?

Are we really to believe the Mets NY logo is not really their own, but borrowed from these alleged ancestors?

Next, look at this pennant. Again, another phony trying to trick us into believing there was ever such a team in New York.

This photo on the left alledges to be of Willie Mays. All Mets fans know that Willie was an old outfielder with bad legs, surely not someone to be honored at a ballpark. Some claim he hit 660 home runs. Ridiculous! Everyone knows he only hit 14 as a part-time player in two seasons.

Finally we have this relic, recently uncovered by famous archaeologist Indiana Jones. It was found near the site of the former Mets stadium, the Polo Grounds. If it said Mets I might consider it to be authentic, but since it says Giants it has to be be part of this conspiracy.

This is all very silly. The only team that played in New York before the Mets were the Dodgers, and as everyone knows they folded in 1957 and there is no place on earth where the Dodgers legacy can be honored. Thank goodness we have Fred Wilpon looking out for the defunct Dodgers, and thank heavens the Mets do not fall for this "New York Giants" unicorn-like nonsense.

Memorial Day and Eddie Grant

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Had you read the New York Times on May 30th 1921 you'd have seen this

MEMORIAL UNVEILING TODAY; Eddie Grant Monument to Be Uncovered at Polo Grounds.

So now you're asking - Who is Eddie Grant?

Well Grant played for a number of teams including the never-spoken-of New York Giants. Not ana amzing bplayer by any means. Eddie was killed during World War I in 1918.

In 1921 the Giants unveiled a plaque in Eddie's memory, and there it stayed until the Giants last game in 1957.

It was uncovered recently and now is in the possession of these guys:
http://www.baseballreliquary.org/EddieGrantPlaque.htm

How about we put this plaque back in a baseball stadium. How about Dodg, I mean, Ebb...um Citi Field which as you know honors the Polo Grounds with green seats.

Thanks to contributor Louie Maz (no relation to Lee Maz) for the heads up on this one.

The Mets Never Played In Brooklyn

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The Mets act is af if they won the 1955 World Series.

Say Hey, Giants Fans Show Their Wistful Side
By RICHARD SANDOMIR

The members of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society know this: Their team’s history is just as rich as that of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Their Giants won more pennants and World Series titles than the Dodgers did.

They had Christy Mathewson, John J. McGraw and Willie Mays.
Yet these 60 or 70 Ottophiles, nearly all men — and mostly of a certain demographic that saw those Giants play — cannot stir a revolution.

They cannot alter this irrefutable fact: They long ago lost the nostalgia battle to Pee Wee and the Duke, as well as to Jackie Robinson’s civil rights breakthrough, and to the deep connection between the Dodgers and their borough and the Dodgers’ 1955 World Series victory.

For half a century, the Dodgers have bathed in waves of wistfulness denied the Giants, who have no match for the Boys of Summer sobriquet created by Roger Kahn in his elegiac 1971 memoir.
“Very few are standing up for Buck Ewing and Amos Rusie,” said the historian John Thorn, referring to a couple of antique Giants Hall of Famers.

Consider this outrage: The Mets used Ebbets Field, particularly its rotunda (named for Robinson), as an architectural model for their new Citi Field. No recognition has yet been accorded the quirky home of the Giants.

“They didn’t incorporate any of the Polo Grounds in the design,” Steven Rappaport, a member of the society, who grew up among Dodgers fans in Flatbush, said during the nostalgia society’s meeting last Thursday.

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