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Baseball in the Five Boroughs

From the House that Ruth built to the Shot Heard ‘Round the World, New York has been home to baseball history for more than 170 years. Here are the places, some long-gone, where it happened.

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Yankee Stadium
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Yankee Stadium

The "House that Ruth Built" was, in fact, completed in 1923, and would go on to host 6,581 New York Yankees games before its 2008 closure.
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Ebbets Field
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Ebbets Field

Ebbets Field was home to the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957, when the team left town for Los Angeles. Three years later, the stadium was demolished.
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Washington Park
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Washington Park

This is the second Washington Park, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers (previously the Brooklyn Superbas, Bridegrooms, Trolley Dodgers, National Leaguers) from 1898 to 1913, when they decamped to Ebbets Field on the east side of Prospect Park.
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Hilltop Park
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Hilltop Park

Washington Heights' Hilltop Park was the home of the New York Highlanders, as today’s Yankees were then known, between 1903 and 1912. In 1925, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital broke ground at this site.
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Polo Grounds
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Polo Grounds

Home to the New York Giants baseball team, the stadium pictured is the third to use the name Polo Grounds: the first was located at the northeast corner of Central Park, and the second at an adjacent site in Coogan’s Hollow. A 1911 fire caused extensive damage, leading to the reconstruction of a concrete-and-steel stadium, the “fourth” Polo Grounds.
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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch

Parade honoring the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers passes under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza, September 29, 1941.
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