when they were covering a story on head trauma, went back and documented all of the times they could find news articles reporting Gehrig hitting his head whether it was HBPs or collisions on the base paths.
how diverse the crowd there is? Honestly surprised me for 1924. Baseball really has done some incredible things for equality in this country.
To me, I saw the opposite. From what I can tell, the majority of the fans in that picture are black. Considering the era, I assumed it was the “coloreds only” section.
how diverse the crowd there is? Honestly surprised me for 1924. Baseball really has done some incredible things for equality in this country.
To me, I saw the opposite. From what I can tell, the majority of the fans in that picture are black. Considering the era, I assumed it was the “coloreds only” section.
I remember being 5 or 6 & seeing old black & white photos & thinking, "So this is before color!", thinking that everything was black & white & then someone invented colors. Haha.
how diverse the crowd there is? Honestly surprised me for 1924. Baseball really has done some incredible things for equality in this country.
To me, I saw the opposite. From what I can tell, the majority of the fans in that picture are black. Considering the era, I assumed it was the “coloreds only” section.
Accept there are white people in there too.
There are. But the majority of that crowd is black and, the laws were ass backwards then. Blacks had places they couldn’t go, not white people.
There are. But the majority of that crowd is black and, the laws were ass backwards then. Blacks had places they couldn’t go, not white people.
Correct, the Senators' stadium was segregated. Diversity in that picture is from a few white people who, for whatever reason, chose to go into the section segregated for black fans.
Most likely to be closer to Ruth is what I figure Â
Sorry to jump in w a side thought, but thought it was related.
I had no idea until I saw 61 and my dad told me that monument park used to be actually in centerfield and the players had to avoid the monuments. Talk about stupid design and risking injury to your best players. Probably more then one concussion caused by that idea.
Sorry to jump in w a side thought, but thought it was related.
I had no idea until I saw 61 and my dad told me that monument park used to be actually in centerfield and the players had to avoid the monuments. Talk about stupid design and risking injury to your best players. Probably more then one concussion caused by that idea.
That was crazy. Hey, with the rules they’re thinking about now, I wouldn’t be surprised if something were proposed about putting obstacles in the OF because of some stupid argument like, “Fly balls are too easy to catch in today’s game.”
I remembered this incorrectly. It wasn't the monuments that were in left center, it was the flag pole that was in the field of play. This picture is from April 1931 Yankees Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Apologize for the previous text.
Sorry to jump in w a side thought, but thought it was related.
I had no idea until I saw 61 and my dad told me that monument park used to be actually in centerfield and the players had to avoid the monuments. Talk about stupid design and risking injury to your best players. Probably more then one concussion caused by that idea.
That was crazy. Hey, with the rules they’re thinking about now, I wouldn’t be surprised if something were proposed about putting obstacles in the OF because of some stupid argument like, “Fly balls are too easy to catch in today’s game.”
But, they, and the flagpole, were more than 450 ft. from homeplate. Not a lot of balls went there on a fly. There is a reason LCF in Yankee Stadium was known as Death Valley.
I remembered this incorrectly. It wasn't the monuments that were in left center, it was the flag pole that was in the field of play. This picture is from April 1931 Yankees Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Apologize for the previous text.
The monuments and the flagpole were in the field of play. I don't believe there were monuments yet in 1931.
Wasn't that suspected in the Dwight Clark case?
Close enough, get back in there.
I think you're right, that sounds familiar.
It was quite a few mentions.
To me, I saw the opposite. From what I can tell, the majority of the fans in that picture are black. Considering the era, I assumed it was the “coloreds only” section.
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how diverse the crowd there is? Honestly surprised me for 1924. Baseball really has done some incredible things for equality in this country.
To me, I saw the opposite. From what I can tell, the majority of the fans in that picture are black. Considering the era, I assumed it was the “coloreds only” section.
Accept there are white people in there too.
Yeah but he's a cop and looks like he's telling the crowd to back off
There still isn't a universal and objective way to diagnose a concussion; let alone how to treat it.
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how diverse the crowd there is? Honestly surprised me for 1924. Baseball really has done some incredible things for equality in this country.
To me, I saw the opposite. From what I can tell, the majority of the fans in that picture are black. Considering the era, I assumed it was the “coloreds only” section.
Accept there are white people in there too.
There are. But the majority of that crowd is black and, the laws were ass backwards then. Blacks had places they couldn’t go, not white people.
Correct, the Senators' stadium was segregated. Diversity in that picture is from a few white people who, for whatever reason, chose to go into the section segregated for black fans.
I had no idea until I saw 61 and my dad told me that monument park used to be actually in centerfield and the players had to avoid the monuments. Talk about stupid design and risking injury to your best players. Probably more then one concussion caused by that idea.
I had no idea until I saw 61 and my dad told me that monument park used to be actually in centerfield and the players had to avoid the monuments. Talk about stupid design and risking injury to your best players. Probably more then one concussion caused by that idea.
That was crazy. Hey, with the rules they’re thinking about now, I wouldn’t be surprised if something were proposed about putting obstacles in the OF because of some stupid argument like, “Fly balls are too easy to catch in today’s game.”
Please post them. Would be cool to see. Wonder if any other ballpark did the same thing.
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Now, go find pictures of cars parked in the outfield before there was a real fence in the OF...really.
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Sorry to jump in w a side thought, but thought it was related.
I had no idea until I saw 61 and my dad told me that monument park used to be actually in centerfield and the players had to avoid the monuments. Talk about stupid design and risking injury to your best players. Probably more then one concussion caused by that idea.
That was crazy. Hey, with the rules they’re thinking about now, I wouldn’t be surprised if something were proposed about putting obstacles in the OF because of some stupid argument like, “Fly balls are too easy to catch in today’s game.”