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Polo Grounds (III) (left) and Manhattan Field (aka Polo Grounds II) (right) c.1900. Polo Grounds III was the stadium that made the name nationally famous. Built in 1890, it initially had a completely open outfield bounded by just the outer fence, but bleachers were gradually added. By the early 1900s, some bleacher sections encroached on the ...
Polo Grounds I: New York Giants (NL, 1883–1888) New York Metropolitans (AA, 1883–1885) 1880 1888 Apartment buildings Metropolitan Park: New York Metropolitans (AA, 1884) 1884 1884 Now occupied by a complex of residential, commercial, and school buildings. Polo Grounds II: New York Giants (NL, 1889–1890) 1889 1910 Rebuilt as Polo Grounds III
This list of closed stadiums by capacity shows demolished, unused, or otherwise closed sports stadiums ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the stadium could accommodate seated.
[citation needed] The suffixes "Field" and "Park" were still used, but many professional ballparks were "Grounds". The last major league "Grounds" was the Polo Grounds in New York City, which was razed in 1964. The term "stadium" has been used since ancient times, typically for a running track and its seating area. As college football gained in ...
The Polo Grounds was located on the Manhattan side of the Harlem River, at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. Huston and Ruppert purchased the lumberyard from William Waldorf Astor for $600,000, equal to $10.9 million today. Construction began May 5, 1922 and Yankee Stadium opened to the public less than a year later.
The event runs Nov. 17 through Dec. 31 and hours are 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday to Thursday and 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
The largest stadium used by a professional team falls at number 15 on the list. Not included are several large stadiums used by teams in the now-defunct NFL Europa, as these were all built for and used mainly for association football, or Rogers Centre, located in Canada (although it does host occasional American football games). Currently ...
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