The Giants called the Polo Grounds home from 1891-1957, and on September 29 of 1957, the club played their final game at the old ballpark.

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There were 11,606 fans in attendance watching the Pittsburgh Pirates drubbing the lame-duck New York Giants that Sept. 29 of 1957. The final score was 9-1 Pirates.

Ticket stub for a New York Giants baseball game held at the Polo Grounds Stadium, September 29, 1957. It was the team's final game in New York following 75 years in the city, relocating to San ...

The Polo Grounds were home of the New York Giants baseball team. "The Giants left town September 29, 1957. It's embedded in my heard. I was at that game," Carmine Magazino remembers.

Mays played at the Polo Grounds from his rookie season of 1951 through 1957, after which point the Giants relocated to San Francisco.

As such, Bonds may have done just as well, if not better, at the Polo Grounds in 1957 than he did at AT&T Park in 2001.

The same wrecking ball that razed Ebbets Field four years earlier took down the Polo Grounds on April 10, 1964. The Polo Grounds Towers apartment complex was built on the site and remains there today.

Game-used baseballs are one of 11 lots — including a game-used Willie Mays bat — from former Polo Grounds superintendent Jim Trainor up for bids.