![]() “It’s always, ‘Ebbets Field was this.’ And then the Mets build a duplicate of it basically, and then they sit there and tell you, ‘Well, the green seats (at Citi Field) are for the Polo Grounds.’ The Giants, I think in New York as the years went by, probably considered themselves third-class citizens behind the Yankees and Dodgers.” “Especially the stadium,” said Mintz, whose group has regular video meetings, and more than 2,500 followers on Facebook. Gary Mintz, organizer of the New York Giants Preservation Society, said that at times, the Giants’ legacy in New York absolutely feels pushed aside relative to the Dodgers’. Fred Wilpon, the former Mets owner, designed Citi Field as an homage to the Dodgers’ old home, Ebbets Field, not the Giants’ Polo Grounds of Manhattan. Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book about them. Empirically, major figures of subsequent generations have written and spoken more about the Dodgers. All the Broadway theater performers attached themselves to the Giants, not the Dodgers.”īut being Broadway’s flame was not enough to widely sustain the Giants’ legacy. “Hopper became famous for reciting ‘Casey at the Bat’ the first time in public, and then did it 10,000 more times. ![]() ![]() John Thorn, MLB’s official historian, had one name jump to mind, a fellow who died in 1935. “I’ve never thought about this before, but I can’t tell you off the top of my head somebody that’s going to wax nostalgic about the New York Giants, as far as somebody you identify (as),’ Oh, he was the diehard Giants fan,'” Dodgers historian Mark Langill said. ![]()
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