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Land of the Giants: New York's Polo Grounds by Stew Thornley, More than thirty years after its demolition, the Polo Grounds -- like some other urban neighborhood parks such as Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, event park raider richton sports and Wrigley Field -- still holds a place in the hearts of baseball fans. The Polo Grounds was the home of the New York Giants from John McGraw event park raider richton sports and Christy Mathewson to Carl Hubbell event park raider richton sports and Mel Ott to Willie Mays event park raider richton sports and Leo Durocher. It was also home to the Yankees when Babe Ruth's home run production was soaring (which led to "the House that Ruth built") event park raider richton sports and home to the Mets in their painful early years. From "Merkle's Boner", which cost the New York Giants a pennant, to Bobby Thomson's homer, which won them one, Stew Thornley retells the legendary events of the park event park raider richton sports and its legendary personalities. He reveals little-known facts too: When the championship Giants event park raider richton sports and Yankees played in the 1921 event park raider richton sports and 1922 World Series, it wasn't a "subway series", because the two teams shared the same ballpark. The team Mays was playing for when he hit his first home run in the Polo Grounds was not the Giants, but the Birmingham Black Barons. The Polo Grounds was also the site for the Negro World Series games in 1946 event park raider richton sports and 1947. Fans cherish not only the historic moments event park raider richton sports and team traditions of these stadiums, but treasure their physical peculiarities. Like the "Green Monster" at Fenway Park, the unusual horseshoe shape of the Polo Grounds made the park a special place to play. Stew Thornley analyzes the effect of the very short porches along the foul lines event park raider richton sports and of a cavernous center field on home run production event park raider richton sports and hitting in general. Baseball wasn't the only sport played in the Polo Grounds. The football Giants played here from 1925 to 1955, but thestadium was better known for some of the great college games, including the 1924 Army-Notre Dame game in which the "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame were christened.
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A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium by Richard Bak, On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan event park raider richton sports and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters event park raider richton sports and their families for more than a century. Bennett Park was torn down event park raider richton sports and replaced by a concrete event park raider richton sports and steel structure named Navin Field in 1912, was expanded event park raider richton sports and renamed Briggs Stadium in 1938, event park raider richton sports and finally was given the name Tiger Stadium in 1961. Richard Bak traces the importance of the corner of Michigan event park raider richton sports and Trumbull in the history of Detroit event park raider richton sports and its people. During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan event park raider richton sports and Trumbull to watch the Tigers' 7,800 home games, as well as to attend numerous Other sporting, social, event park raider richton sports and civic events, including high school, collegiate, event park raider richton sports and professional football games, prep event park raider richton sports and Negro league baseball contests, political rallies, concerts, event park raider richton sports and boxing event park raider richton sports and soccer matches. A Place for Summer covers baseball in Detroit from its beginnings in the 1850s through the Tigers' 1997 season, event park raider richton sports and offers a history of Detroit's playing grounds before Bennett Park, including the Woodward Avenue cricket grounds, the original Detroit Athletic Club, Recreation event park raider richton sports and Boulevard parks, event park raider richton sports and the many places where the Tigers played bootleg games on Sundays at the turn of the century. Bak presents attendance records from the Tigers' Western League days onward event park raider richton sports and a complete account of every opening day since 1896. A chapter is dedicated to the football Panthers of the 1920s event park raider richton sports and their more enduring successor, the Lions, who playedat Michigan event park raider richton sports and Trumbull through 1974.
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Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio and Sports Event Analyst - The Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Analyst and Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Event Analyst made their debuts at the awards show in different years — 1993 for the Studio Analyst award and 1997 for the Sports Event Analyst award. Before 1993, an Emmy was awarded in just one combined category.
Richton Park, Illinois - Richton Park is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 12,533.
Atlas Games (sports event) - The Atlas Games are a sporting event created by the International Atlas Committee. It is promoted to be the world’s largest amateur sporting event and will be held in Athens, Greece every two years starting in August of 2007.
Event (sports) - In Olympic terminology, an event is one competition for which one set of medals is given, such as men's 100m run or women's volleyball.
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