Shown below is Baseball's One True Cathedral on April 19th, 1923, the day AFTER Opening Day:
The subway was there but this is before the Bronx Courthouse was built, before any of the businesses we know today such as Stan's and the Bowling Alley, and before any attempt was made to build any ... parking lots.
I'm really not sure why the place was filled to capacity on Day 2 of the season (refrigerator magnet day?), but look at all the cars in the adjacent lots ... all of the parking towers had yet to be built to accommodate the crowds.
Please also look also at all those open, grassy spaces and just how big that outfield was.
Soon we'll be back there.
Please stay safe, everyone.
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Beautiful photo. Not a cloud in the sky.
The Yanks beat the Red Sux 8-2 that Thursday afternoon before a crowd of 12,000. Babe Ruth was 2-3 with a triple, a RBI, two walks and two runs scored. Bullet Joe Bush got the complete game win and went 3-4 at the plate. Game lasted 1:58.
TWW: Thanks for doing that research.
Eight runs scored and still the game was less than 2 hours!
MLB could take a lesson from that today...
I'm pretty sure you got fined if you didn't swing at the first pitch. And I think only the Babe was allowed to draw walks back then. It was in the rule book. Maybe? Not really sure about either of those things ...
@LBJ...no commercials, no stepping out of the batter's box, no throwing out baseballs after they hit the ground, no DH, no constantly stepping off the rubber...for starters...
Thanks, LBJ, just beautiful!
Buuuutttt...if, as the Warbler says—and we've no reason to doubt her, she's never lied to us (intentionally) before, there were 12,000 fans on hand in Game 2 of the 1923 season...then this is a photo of Game 1. Or some other game.
Logic, Watson!
Anyway, it's still very cool, and the sentiments are wonderful, too.
Incidentally, regarding all the cars:
Shortly after World War I, there were more cars in New York City than there were in all of Europe.
True fact!
Just like Notre Dame- it is now lost to the next generation as a place. At least losing that cathedral was an accident.
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