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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Powerful tubes will suck up trash and recycling debris at 60 miles per hour in a new $32 million garbage system being built at the New York City Housing Authority’s Polo Grounds in Harlem. The ...

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 ...

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 ...