Originally Posted by Ciaran (Post 312897)

I have no interest in present day baseball whatsoever but have a strong interest in vintage imaginery of the early New York Yankees' sides.

For many years, I've collected original Yankees photographs from their origins in 1903 through to the late 1940s, with a particular liking for items from the 1920s. I'm not really sure what started the interest but just find this vintage imagery so alluring and way ahead of its time.

Originally Posted by AtLastHome (Post 313109)

GO GIANTS!!! Fuck YEAH!!! There will never be a team like last year's again. Pure heart!!! It felt like the old days of baseball for me watching them.

Originally Posted by Ciaran (Post 313113)

The old days of baseball? Like when the Giants and Dodgers were New York teams ;)

As a European sports fan, I just don't understand (or like) the US franchise system where teams with long-established routes in one city can up and leave to another part of the country like that.

Originally Posted by AtLastHome (Post 313118)

My "old days!" My first games were at Seal Stadium in SF right after the Giants were uprooted.

Originally Posted by AtLastHome (Post 313118)

I can see your point here. My parents were huge baseball fans- and "courted" when the Giants and Dodgers were NY teams. Since they eventually settled in northern CA, they were happy about these teams ending up here. Although, they sure talked up the days of the "Bums".

Originally Posted by Ciaran (Post 313134)

Presumably one of the grounds where the SF Seals played? Until recently, I had a Japanese program for a goodwill tour that the Seals made to Japan in 1949.

My young nephew is half-Japanese and the Japanese are very interested in baseball so I'm determined that he'll be raised as a Yankees fan :)


KEWL!!


Their history was so romantic - always the bridesmaid and never the bride ... until 1955 when "next year finally came" :) ...... one of the best stories of sporting history.

Sure did!! I have so many great memories of seeing them play back then- and Willie Mays. My brother played Triple A ball (catcher) was scouted by the Giants. His HSW team took the state championship one year. Never made it though, but baseball was such a part of my childhood. I was the "bat girl" for his HS and triple A team. And he broke my fingers more than once and my nose when I would catch for him because he wanted to be a pitcher. I played softball, but back then, girls sports were nothing. Pre-Title IX. Sucked. But we had hella baseball games in the neighborhood that were co-ed. My parents both played, too.

Ken Burns' Baseball, a documentary series from the early to mid 1990s, is a great program with some absolutely fantastic footage.

Originally Posted by Greyson (Post 313600)

Go Dodgers!


The Dodgers trounced the Giants pretty good this weekend for the opening of the season.