On Tuesday, July 4, 1950, a New York Giants baseball fan named Bernard “Barney” Doyle was sitting in the grandstands at the Polo Grounds in uptown Manhattan, waiting for a Giants–Dodgers doubleheader ...

“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 ...

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 ...

FRANCIS Giles stands on the sidewalk of 154th Street, pointing to a spot in the distance. “It was right over there,” he says. He points toward a small playground where children are climbing a jungle ...

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 ...