Part Three: Everything I’ve seen and read and heard about Ebbets Field has led me to dream about being there. … to hear the sounds of the “Sym’phony” and the yells from people who lived around the corner from the ballpark… In its day, the ballpark was a very important part of its neighborhood. Today [...]
In The History Books: Community on a Landfill
By: AnnexNate | Thursday April 8th, 2010
In The History Books: New Parks in New York and Another New Era.
By: AnnexNate | Saturday March 27th, 2010
PART 2: Last season saw the opening of two brand new ballparks in the Empire State. The Mets and Yankees, both one-time tenants of the same Manhattan stomping ground – the Polo Grounds – sent two of baseball ‘s most well-known ballparks to the wayside and moved into new hyper-modern replacements. Both Yankee Stadium and [...]
In The History Books: A Ballpark Experience – Introduction.
By: AnnexNate | Wednesday March 24th, 2010
With the start of the 2010 baseball season starting to poke its head through all of the TV’s basketball coverage, the ideas of summer ballpark trips are beginning their sugarplum-esque dances through my head. Every season I try to see a new ballpark and try to find some kind of new regional ballpark delicacy to [...]
In The History Books: The Real Purpose
By: AnnexNate | Thursday February 25th, 2010
PART FIVE: FINALE Bring In The Closer: There are a lot of players in the Hall that simply don’t match up with the others. And while it would be fun to come up with a list of all the said players (I’ve tried), it is very much impossible to do. The Hall of Fame has [...]
In The History Books: Home State Advantage
By: AnnexNate | Saturday February 20th, 2010
PART FOUR AND ONE HALF: New York, New York: When Jim ‘Catfish’ Hunter was inducted into the Hall in 1987 the option of what hat to wear was still his. However, he chose not to choose. Hunter was a dominant pitcher and one of the biggest names for two of the biggest franchises of the [...]
