02/20/09

New York City Locations of Significance to Baseball History

The locations below appear in Roadside Baseball, a book I picked up through Amazon.com.

1. Cooperstown (not actually in New York City, or anywhere near it, but no baseball trip to New York is complete without a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and Doubleday Field)
2. Former Site of the Polo Grounds (157^th St & 8^th Ave)
3. Former Site of Hilltop Park (622 W 168^th St)
4. Babe Ruth gets married (144 W 90^th St)
5. Babe Ruth’s apartment (110 Riverside Dr)
6. Babe Ruth’s apartment (345 W 88^th St)
7. Babe Ruth’s apartment (173 Riverside Dr)
8. The Babe dies (424 E 68^th St)
9. Former site of Huberts Flea Circus and Museum (228 W 42^nd St)
10. Lou Gehrig’s birthplace (1994 2^nd Ave)
11. Joe DiMaggio Highway (from Battery Park Place to W 72^nd St)
12. Parish of the Yankees (917 Morris Ave, the Bronx)
13. Edward Grant Memorial Highway (from Jerome Ave to MLK Blvd, the Bronx)
14. Jackie Robinson School/Public JHS 320 (46 McKeever Place, Brooklyn)
15. Former site of Ebbets Field (Bedford Ave & Montgomery St, Brooklyn)
16. Ebbets Field Flagpole (Utica Ave & Farragut Road, Brooklyn [at casket company])
17. Former site of the Brooklyn Excelsiors (133 Clinton St, Brooklyn Heights)
18. Jackie Robinson Parkway (Interborough Parkway, Queens and Brooklyn)
19. Former site of Washington Park [Dodgers] (3^rd and 4^th Ave & 1^st St, Brooklyn)
20. Parade Grounds (Parkside Ave, Parade Pl, Caton Ave, Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn)
21. Brooklyn Dodgers Headquarters (215 Montague St, Brooklyn)
22. Roy Campanella Occupational Training Center (64 Avenue X, Brooklyn)
23. Gil Hodges Way (on Bedford between Avenues L, M, N, Brooklyn)
24. Gil Hodges School/PS193 (2515 Avenue L 7, Brooklyn)
25. Gil Hodges Field (Knapp between Avenues V and W, Brooklyn)
26. Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Bridge and bust (Brooklyn and Rockaways)
27. Andy Coakley Field at Columbia University (Broadway & W 218^th St)
28. Mickey Mantle’s restaurant (42 Central Park South)
29. Former site of Dexter Park (Jamaica Ave between Dexter Court & 76^th St, Queens)
30. Ansonia Hotel (2109 Broadway)
31. Birth of the NL @ Grand Central Hotel site (673 Broadway)