The Polo Grounds, a name that once echoed with the roar of New York fans and the legends of baseball's past, also carried some of the darkest chapters the sport has ever known. From a ferocious fire ...

JMT Photography and Media/Shutterstock.com Ebbets Field hosted Jackie Robinson’s debut Ebbets Field in Brooklyn hosted Jackie Robinson’s regular-season debut for the Dodgers on April 15, 1947. He made ...

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 ...

A look at a long-defunct stadium with history, after-the-jump ….. Although it was demolished over fifty-five years ago, the Polo Grounds meant a lot to my late father, who grew-up as a fan of the NY ...

We can add little to the tributes to Willie Mays, the greatest man ever to play on the diamond. Our colleagues on the sports pages, led by baseball scribe Bill Madden, know much more about Mays the ...

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 ...

On Sept. 18, 1963, New York Mets manager Casey Stengel waves goodbye to the Polo Grounds as he leaves with his wife, Edna, after the Phillies beat the Mets 5-1 in the final game at the ballpark. 50 ...