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Thank you all for another great presentation.

My late father, Giants fan, would have enjoyed this.

Thank you for the discussion. The Team That Time Won't Forget was a terrific read. If we read Joshua Prager's The Echoing Green and David Ritz Branca's Pitch along with this fabulous piece, the situations culminating in the playoff between the Giants and Dodgers in the fall of '51 become quite clear regardless of our affiliation. A fascinating time in baseball history and a topic worthy of discussion and debate in a civilized and intellectual manner.

Wonderful video story. I’ve been a Dodgers and Diamondbacks fan for decades, but the rivalry versus the Giants has been great fun over the years. Thank you for this wonderful presentation.

Fantastic! Norm is a great guy and his baseball and Giants collection is world-class.

This was an extraordinary catch but it was been way oversold over the years.

This iconic baseball play was nearly one of the first to be played to a national audience. For some of us, the fifties baseball were unforgettable. Thomson's homer, Larsen's perfect game, and this catch were the Triumvirate of Fifties baseball. Then Mazeroski's brought in the new decade.

Mays didn't take a direct route to the ball because CF was the sun field. The Polo Grounds ran due east-west. At that time of year the sun was behind home plate @ 3 in the afternoon. He took a (somewhat) circuitous route to get a better angle on the ball.

Feller wanted to pitch game 4 but Lopez went with game 1 starter Lemon on two days rest. No open dates in that series. Lemon was shelled. Feller was 13-3 in 1954. Lopez also screwed up his pitching in 1959 starting Wynn on 2-days rest in game 6. Wynn lasted 3 1/3 and was shelled. Youda thunk it that Lozez would have learned something by then but he didn't.

Arnold Hano's "A Day in the Bleachers" is a well written enjoyable account of this game by someone who was there that day.

Merkle stole 49 bases in 1911. Giants in 1911 stole 347 bases; record never to be broken. Lost the WS to HR Baker and the A's.

Harry Coveleski won 22 games in 1914 for Detroit, then 22 in 1915 and 21 in 1916 his only good years. Lifetime 2.39 ERA 9 seasons.

phil muschnick is feminist liar period

phil muschbick is a dirtbag

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Great video, hopefully I get there soon.

Wish i could have been there but I live in FL and haven't been back to NYC in a very long time. The PG was my second home growing up and the Giants were my first love. I have no idea how many games I saw there but I would guess well more than 50. I was crushed when they left but the truth is that the fans had stopped supporting the team which made it easy for Stoneham to go. I was there for Game 1 in the 54 series and clearly remember "the catch" though the throw was even more incredible. I missed the "shot heard around the world" as I was away at school. I never stopped being a Giant's fan though it's not quite the same. But, then again, neither am I. All the best to the NYGPS. Wish I could be a part of it.

Great discussion and turnout involving a subject that still permeates the current paradigm. The all-powerful television revenue debate. It's great to learn the O'Malley money grab did not end with the immoral but cost-effective (meant facetiously) acquisition of Chavez Ravine for his Dodgers. One of the great things a society like this reminds us of historically is that the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers are frauds. It can be debated that former NY Giants such as Hank Schenz, Herman Franks, Sal Yvars, and Bobby Thomson deserve CREDIT, not condemnation for helping Leo knock 'Dem Bums off their perch back in '51. Members, I apologize for the negativity, but the Dodgers bring out the worst in me and I was born in '72! I actually cheered on the Yankees in the '77, '78, & '81 Series and we rarely rooted for the American League. I rooted against the AL in Battle of the Network Stars! Seriously, thanks for the great work on camera and behind the scenes of this fantastic group reminding the country of the origins of the Giants. A rich history that will be preserved thanks to Gary and you all. Thanks.

I never knew Larry Bird had a twin !!

The stonehams are my great great and great grandfathers! Thanks for posting this!

Another terrific show with a very interesting writer and topic. Excellent listen.

Speaking of McGraw being one of the first managers to utilise relief pitchers, the book "Manager of Giants" by Lou Hernandez points out that Doc Crandall led the National League in games finished for five straight seasons (1909 to 1913), making Crandall "the closest thing there was to a relief specialist in this era". During that span, 132 of Crandall's 185 pitching appearances were out of the bullpen.

love this. my dad was a dodgers fan but i enjoy the history btwn the new york baseball teams.

The insights into the composing of the song are fascinating. It is not just about Baseball.

I actually saw major league baseball played at the Polo Grounds. It was the Mets in the first two years. They were my first games as a kid.

Local police refer to the stairway as “the felony steps”

Great show 24

Well done

Thank you, Davey Williams is my father. Meant the world to me to hear the stories and kind remembrances. Best regards, Lori

Thank you once again to the New York Giants Preservation Society for the wonderful discussion on a terrible day. When one of our heroes passes, in our case, the greatest ballplayer that ever lived, a small piece of all of us withers away with them. Thank You Willie for the great memories that you provided the fans of New York and San Francisco. You made us and continue to make us proud to be a National League baseball fan in and around New York City albeit interleague play ruined the distinctivness of our league. We have loved Willie and will never forget his contributions to our wonderful game and how Willie represented the Giants and later New York Mets. He will be missed by us all. Thanks to the society as well for the wonderful book recommendations. After recently finishing Arnold Hano's, A Day in the Bleachers, this has been more emotional. I wish I was old enough to have seen Willie play, but his memory will endure in the hearts and minds of baseball fans for eternity. Condolences to the Mays family and all who have been affected by his loss. We love you Willie.

What a fitting tribute to the Say Hey Kid. RIP Willie!

A great night. I was there at Shea Stadium.

I definitely cannot agree with Baker's take on Robert Moses and Walter O'Malley. Moses did not so much evaluate and reject O'Malley's stadium proposal as he summarily ignored that proposal. When the rest of the New York City government finally grasped that Moses had given O'Malley the back of his hand, they were outraged. Alas, by that time it was too late, as O'Malley had already formed a relationship with the Los Angeles municipal authorities, which had given him the land on which he could build his own stadium. All that New York officials could offer O'Malley by that point was a municipal stadium in Queens, an offer which had no chance of being acceptable to him. If New York City had had a functioning government at the time (which is another way of saying: if Robert Moses had not been so unaccountable), then that government would surely have reached an arrangement to acquire the necessary land, and the privately-funded Dodger Stadium (note: not the domed stadium of some of the more fanciful plans) would have been built at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Fourth Avenue rather than in Chavez Ravine. It is true that an Atlantic Avenue stadium would have caused the displacement of the people living in the residential buildings that would have been torn down, just as the Chavez Ravine stadium caused the displacement of the entire community of Mexican-Americans who had been living on that land. But that stadium would have arrested the perception of Brooklyn - and, more generally, of New York City and of Eastern cities overall - as being in decline. The sociological effects would have been profoundly beneficial. What's more, a Dodger Stadium at that location would have been accessible to the entire City by subway, while also being accessible by the LIRR to the former Brooklynites who had moved out to Long Island. If we imagine Koufax and Drysdale and the 1960s Dodger teams there, we have to concede that they would have had the same two-million-plus in yearly attendance that the team drew in Los Angeles. The area would have experienced a boom, with restaurants and bars creating a thriving baseball District; and that Marriott hotel on Jay Street would have been built a good fifty years earlier than it was actually built. An Atlantic Avenue stadium would certainly have been a net economic positive for our whole City. I have bought Baker's book, and I am sure that I will enjoy it and that I will learn a great deal from it. But Baker will never dissuade me from the conclusion that O'Malley was kicked out of Brooklyn by the monstrous megalomaniac Robert Moses, nor will he convince me that O'Malley's having been kicked out was a good thing for our City, for the borough of Brooklyn, and for that particular area.

This session is absolutely priceless. Carl was a gem -- on and off the field. And this session --- when Carl was 94 --- is mesmerizing.

32 yr old Cleveland baseball fan ... love the purpose here to preserve history on the real New York Giants ... Kevin's book was excellent, great audio book as well! So many entertaining and interesting facets to baseball's history, particularly in New York. Quite the bygone era.

Enjoyable Evening

Is this Larry Bird? Thank You Mr. Bird !

Wow. Great story. Love the home museum. Congratulations Norm.

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Happy 93rd birthday to the GOAT of baseball, Mr. Wilie Howard Mays.

While you were there, did anybody ask you for an autograph thinking you were Larry Bird? ;-)

Funny how a public school stands at the exact spot where Willie Mays made The Catch. Always wondered if there's a specific floor or wall marker indicating the approximate place?❤

Happy Birthday Willie.

Happy birthday Willie

Thank you Josh for taking the time a year ago to appear on this terrific forum of like minded individuals. Your book is nothing short of spectacular and is a modern literary master class. Thank you.

Excellent presentation. I just found your channel. As a huge fan of baseball history I think I Will enjoy it.

I want a Tokyo Giants cap also My mother lived at the Polo Grounds years ago

I have never in my life seen so many All Star and World Series level talent unsigned and available: Brandon Belt, Kim Ng, Trevor Bauer, Evan Longoria, Donovan Solano, Brian Sabean, JD Davis (Oakland) THIS SPORT IS A MASSIVE JOKE

This is too cool--thank you so much for sharing this experience. As a native New Yorker, will definitely take this walk when I make my way back home sometime.