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Joshua Prager

The Echoing Green

Joshua Prager

The Echoing Green

The Echoing Green

Polo Grounds

Jul 9

Written by Josh Prager

Before Thomson came to bat, Don Mueller injured his left ankle stepping on third base. He is shown here being carried off the field. The disruption focused Thomson. "I was like a mechanical doll," he says. "I wasn't aware of anyone else in the ba

Among the reporters seen here in the Polo Grounds press box in 1957are Bill Roeder (with pipe)and John Drebinger (standing, in overcoat and hat, to Roeder's left). It was behind this same chicken wire that Red Smith wrote of the Thomson home run:

Looking for the sign from batter’s box to bullpen was discreet. The pen is in view here as Willie Mays bats on September 29, 1957 — the last game the New York Giants played at the Polo Grounds.

Giant owner Horace Stoneham watching a game from the clubhouse above center field, 1957. Beginning on July 20, 1951, manager Leo Durocher stationed coach Herman Franks one flight below, there to spy on the signals of the opposing teams’ catchers.

Sign Stealing

Oct 3, 1951

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