“And there used to be a ballpark where the field was warm and green. And the people played their crazy game with a joy I’d never seen. And the air was such a wonder from the hot dogs and the beer. Yes ...

M.E. Anderson, founder of the popular MLB Cathedrals Twitter account, is a Sporting News contributor. Follow him @MLBcathedrals . This photograph taken at the Polo Grounds with Yankee Stadium in the ...

The 2017 MLB season will be the first one in 67 years without Vin Scully in the broadcast booth, but the legendary announcer is still in the news. Ben Nuckols of The Associated Press spoke to Scully ...

Sixty years ago this year, the Giants played their final season in New York before moving to San Francisco. Team owner Horace Stoneham had been looking for a new ballpark, and he found one on the ...

(OLD) HOME RUN: The San Francisco Giants are donating $50,000 to help fix up a stairway named for John T. Brush that once led down to the Polo Grounds. AP They’ve been gone from New York for 54 years, ...

The name “Polo Grounds” was originally just a generic name describing the function of the place – grounds where polo was played – and got transmogrified into a proper name. Like another Manhattan ...

Michael W. Mitchell still remembers the old days fondly. From his childhood home on 162nd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, he and his family would walk two blocks to the John T. Brush Stairway, down ...

The Polo Grounds! The storied venue that once sat perched on the upper end of Manhattan played host to, among other sports spectacles, Giants home games for much of their New York history. Now, via ...