On Friday we released the latest ‘A Brief History’ podcast. The Subway Series, Part I is about the great New York City baseball rivalries between the Yankees, Giants, Dodgers and Mets over the past 100+ years.
The Polo Grounds
The Polo Grounds (version 2) opened in 1890 at 155th and 8th Avenue (now Frederick Douglass Blvd). Version 1 was located in Central Park and originally used for — wait for it — polo. When the city wanted to expand its grid system, the site was demolished and moved to upper Manhattan.
Back then baseball fields were built to the specs of the lot.