Posted on 10/10/2018 9:50:07 AM PDT by Jolla
Casey Stengel’s Inside-the-Park Home Run Wins Game One of the 1923 World Series!
The 1923 World Series pitted the Yankees against the Giants for the third consecutive year. The three consecutive matchups between the Yankees and Giants marked the only time that three straight World Series featured the same two clubs. The Giants won the first two meetings, but the third time proved to be the charm for the Yankees, as they prevailed against John McGraw crew four games to two.
He also hit the first home run in Ebbets Field.
Wow...I remember Casey Stengel, from his Yankee days, and his Mets days. Brings back memories. My Dad hated the Yankees. We lived in Rochester, NY, and because the Rochester Red Wings was the farm team for the Baltimore Orioles, the Orioles were his favorite. He also liked the Cleveland Browns. Every weekend, it was baseball, football, and wrestling on TV. One of his favorite football players was Chick Jagade of the Browns. It was great growing up in the 50’s.
It was great growing up in the 50’s
Between ‘49 and ‘58 a New York team was in the World Series and won. Yankees, Giants, Dodgers all won championships in the ‘50s
Yep. That's the reason my Dad didn't like them. Said they won too much. And yeah...my Dad was a Democrat. Born in 1904, came to this country in 1912 with the rest of the family, and worked on the NY Central Railroad his whole life. And of course he was a Union supporter. But if my Dad was alive today, he wouldn't recognize the party, and would be ashamed of it. He was a hard worker, and a good father.
I was surprised to learn that Brooklyn’s Duke Snider hit more home runs in the ‘50s than any other player, 326. Had assumed it would have been Mays, Mantle, or Aaron.
It was great growing up in the 50’s
Duke began playing full time in 1949 and played most of the decade in the small confines of Ebbets Field.
Mays hit the bigs in 1951 but missed most of 52 and all of 53 serving in the military, Korean War. Also not easy to hit dingers in the Polo Grounds where he played until 1958.
Mantle did not start playing full time until 1952.
Hank Aaron begin playing in 1954.
Mantle did not start playing full time until 1952
Mantle played in the 51 World Series, in one game on one play - Willie Mays hit the ball, Mantle went for it, DiMaggio called him off and caught the ball.
Mantle did not start playing full time until 1952
Mantle played in the 51 World Series, in one game on one play - Willie Mays hit the ball, Mantle went for it, DiMaggio called him off and caught the ball.
I guess Casey would tell me "you can look it up."
For the prior several years, the Yankees and Giants had shared the Polo Grounds. (Neat ballpark, BTW.) The Giants were the dominant team in town, but the Yankees were up and coming, with the biggest gate attraction in baseball.
The Yankees and Giants had met in the World Series the prior two years(1921-22), with the Giants winning. Those are two of the three World Series played entirely within one ballpark. Can anyone name the other one? (It was not in NY.)
The Yankees’ emerging popularity and their on-field success led John McGraw, the Giants’ crusty manager (known as “Little Napoleon”) to expel the Yankees from his ballpark.
So Colonel Ruppert, the Yankees’ primary owner, decided to build a baseball palace “where McGraw will have to look at it every day.” And so he did. The south end of Yankee Stadium was at 157th St. in the Bronx, and the north end of the Polo Grounds was at 157th St. in Manhattan, just across the river. (When the Mets played at the Polo Grounds, given that thee two teams were never in town at the same time, they would use each other’s paring lots as overflow parking and shuttle people across.)
Stengel wound up playing for five teams, all in the National League: the Giants, Dodgers, Pirates, Phillies, and Braves. During his twelve-year tenure as Yankee manager, the Yankees won ten pennants and they faced five different opponents in the World Series: the Dodgers, Giants, Phillies, Pirates, and Braves.
In the 1950s, the three greatest centerfielders in baseball all played in the same city: Willie, Mickey, and the Duke, to quote Teerry Cashman. Is it any wonder Duke Snider was underappreciated?
The foul lines at the Polo Grounds were ridiculously short — shorter than the infamously short porch at Yankee Stadium. I believe that the RF line was 276, if memory serves me correctly. But like Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds had a very deep center field — 505. That was whee Mays made the incredible catch in the 1954 World Series off Vic Wertz.
Tiger Stadium was somewhat similar. I wish we built ballparks like that today.
I assume you mean that he hit the first World Series home run in Yankee Stadium
Yes, that is why the title says 1923 most baseball fans know the first world series was 1903
Yes, I know that the first World Series was in 1903. I didn’t think they could have gone all the way to 1923 before anyone hit a home run in a World Series game (even if home runs were much rarer before Babe Ruth came along). In 1909 Ty Cobb had the most home runs in the major leagues—9.
In 12 years as manager of the Yankees, Casey Stengel won 10 pennants. The only two teams who beat his Yankee teams were the 1954 Indians and the 1959 White Sox.
They had the same manager. Do you know who it was?
Hall of Famer Frank “Home Run” Baker earned his nickname by hitting 12 one year.
my dad said dimaggio never made a great catch, because he moved so quickly on the ball he got there in time for a routine catch
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