Old baseball stadiums had amazing architecture. I love how they had odd dimensions and great designs. I wish I could go back in time and visit stadiums like Forbes Field, Ebbets Field, and Comiskey Park and walk around them and then watch a game. Ever since I was a kid I've been amazed by baseball stadiums.

@prisonersforprofit

2 ай бұрын

i've watched games at old comiskey, while i get the nostalgia of all the great old-time players having played there, the new stadiums are much more fan friendly.

The Bambino's final HR, number 714, sailed over that RF roof. Look at how high and far that was!

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

I think I recall that the roof was 90' above field level. The only thing that made it possible was that it was a mere 300' down the RF line. I saw both Willie Stargell and Rusty Staub (as a member of the Astros) clear the roof...it a hell of a poke.

I'm not from Pittsburgh but even so I'm always a bit sad that many old ballparks like Forbes Field and Ebbets Field are now gone. But I'm also a Red Sox fan from Boston so my favorite park that I've gone to all my life is still there. Change is necessary and things do change but sometimes it's nice when certain things stay the same.

Love these old fields. Magic

I always thought this was the most beautiful of all the old ballparks. Looks like some of the sightlines for viewing a game would have been horrendous, but for the outsider looking in its contours, angles and lines are unique and have an enormous visual appeal. I love the terra cotta and metal lattice work of the exterior; I love how its gargantuan playing surface is offset by the intimacy of its C-Clamp shaped stands, and the pastoral outfield backdrop of Schenley Park is an aesthetic feature unparalleled in baseball history. If ever a stadium could be called a "park," this was it.

@jamesgrinder2491

3 жыл бұрын

John Edwards. Aside from the General Admission seating along the Left field line, General Admission was also around the infield. It was way back underneath the second level. Yes, it was notorious for having poles partially obstructing your view. All in all though, I don't think the sightlines were as bad as 3 Rivers. 3 Rivers was a horrendous place to watch a baseball game for about 40% of the seats, in my opinion.

nicel done - my hang out as a youngster. I was at the last game at Forbes Field and the First game at Three Rivers Thank you for a nice walk down memory lane.

@dcasper8514

2 жыл бұрын

Carmen....you have some Wonderful memories to cherish.

😢to sad to sad to see my memories go & yet here it is on here ...

@ron88303

3 ай бұрын

As someone once said, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

Absolutely GREAT baseball field

One distinctly sad thing about today's parks is not the glamor & glitz that distract from the game (though there's certainly plenty of that to go around) but the disconnect from city neighborhoods. Ballparks once were centerpieces of neighborhoods that brought in everything from needed revenue unity in otherwise tumultuous times. Now the parks tend to be in suburbs or even remote zones to the metro area the teams represent, with acres of parking to walk through before you can even reach a gate. There are a few that remain in the urban environment, but only a few. Instead of "Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio ?", it's "Where have you gone, Ebbets Field ?" Sigh...

@robertwayne808

8 жыл бұрын

+Tim Callahan The problem is parking. Everybody drives to games nowadays and there's nowhere to park when stadiums are in the middle of urban neighborhoods. I used to love going to games at the Astrodome and the parking was really convenient. Now the Astros play home games at Minute Maid Park in the middle of Houston and the parking lots are piecemeal here and there and it costs a fortune to park anywhere near the stadium.

@wadegarrett2053

7 жыл бұрын

Cloud Dweller because of the ridiculous amounts of crime that non Europeans brought to the cities

@kevinmiller1985

5 жыл бұрын

The one exterior shot of For bes kind of reminds me of E bbets Field while the roof sh ot of Forbes kind of reminds me of Boston's old Braves Fi eld.

@jjj1951

4 жыл бұрын

@@wadegarrett2053 racist a hole

@TheBatugan77

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjj1951 ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 WLM!

Honus Wagner and Roberto Clemente both played there.

@jimnething1264

2 ай бұрын

yep 🙂

Thanks for posting.

Great park. Was there a couple times in the 60's. Revisited in 1997, where home plate has been preserved in a hallway, as well as the center and right centerfield wall.

@jamespicklehead5610

7 жыл бұрын

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@prausch65

6 жыл бұрын

I understand the actual place where home plate was is in the men's room.

My dad and uncle went to a game in 59 at Forbes Field. I was almost four at the time. We moved to Cleveland later that year, and I never saw the Bucs play there myself. I did get to see them play at Three Rivers. I live in Virginia now, but will forever be a Pirates fan. Part of me will always be overlooking the Mon River, and the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at the foot of the hill where we lived.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

Three Rivers was a great place to watch football, but it sucked for baseball. The sight lines for baseball were horrendous, and there were far too many seats where parts of fair territory were obstructed. If you sat in all but the first few rows of the Level 200 boxes, pop ups and medium depth fly balls were cut off by the upper deck overhanging the seats. If you sat anywhere in the 600 Level, the curve of the upper deck below you cut off big slices of fair ground. If you sat in the 500 or 600 levels of the outfield, you could not see any plays made at the fence directly below you. Three Rivers was a shitty place to watch baseball. It was as bad as PNC Park is tremendous. Now, if we only had a Major League team playing there..................... #NuttingBlows

@RRaquello

Жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 I had an uncle who lived in a small town about an hour's drive from Pittsburgh, and while visiting him, we took in a Pirates game at Three Rivers. The team was terrible (around 1985) and there couldn't have been more than 5,000 people at the game on a Sunday afternoon, and it was HOT. Over 100 degrees. And in that crummy stadium, where we were sitting, there was no shade. It was more of a dump than Shea Stadium, which is saying something. At least at Shea, you got a constant breeze, which was nice in baseball season, but not in December for Jets football, LOL. We eventually moved to seats that were a little better. There were about 50,000 empty one to chose from.

475 to Deep Center Field Wall the place was Massive!! We used to sit in Right Field seats just to watch The Great One Roberto Clemente throw guys out at Third Base after fielding the ball off the wall!!!

A friend of mine was in English class at Univ of Pittsburgh at the time Mazeroski hit his HR to win Game 7. The students could hear the cheers from the crowd in the classroom. I had a chance to visit the remaining wall today. But I can't picture where the field was because it's been paved over by roads and buildings. I think the actual location of the old home plate is in the women's bathroom in the building across the street.

They kept the batting cage on the field in center during games. A charming oddity.

@johnnypastrana6727

5 жыл бұрын

I remember Dick Stuart hitting a ball off of that batting cage one time...

@kevinmiller1985

5 жыл бұрын

To Joe Vignolo-Like or not o ne of these times even Fen- way Park will be demolished as will Wrigley Field. Nothin g lasts forever, not even ma- n.

@jamesgrinder2491

3 жыл бұрын

James Picklehead, I was going to say that until I read your comment. Also the tarp was actually situated between Home and Third base, under the ground. An automated system brought up to ground level when needed. Considered high tech in it's day.

Thanks for the visual memories.

i will miss it

Well done!

In its entire existence, Forbes Field NEVER saw a no-hitter.

@8avexp

3 жыл бұрын

The very first batter hit a single, which proved to be a omen.

@frogger1952

2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching the Pirates play the Mets in a doubleheader at Forbes in 1969. The Mets won both games 1-0 and in both games, the Mets' pitcher drove in the only run!!! A couple of balls the Pirates hit to dead center that must have gone 420 to 430 feet were run down for outs. So surprising never a no hitter.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

I think Bob Moose came the closest in 1968. I remember him taking a no-hitter into the 8th inning against Houston before Julio Gotay broke it up.

@RRaquello

Жыл бұрын

​@@russs7574 Julio Gotay. An ex-Pirate, if I recall correctly.

@graciemaemarie11jones16

19 күн бұрын

cause it was a dump

Awesome!

goodbye, Forbes Field! 😢

Just curious . .has anyone been to both Forbes Field and Crosley Field (Cincinnati) to see a game, and if so, which one did you prefer or left a more lasting impression?

@cumulus1234

4 жыл бұрын

Murphy O'Toole I saw games at Crosley field and enjoyed the intimacy of the players on the field and the slope near the warning track. Forbes field looks like it had similar traits that Crosley had. Ebbets field looks very similar to Crosley though.

@murphyotoole9014

4 жыл бұрын

@@cumulus1234 Thank you very much for your input. Take care.

If a batted ball hit the left field scoreboard, or the clock above it, was the ball in play just like it was if it hit any fence? Was there a special ground rule? I realize that at one time there was a fenced in area in front called Greenberg Gardens or Kiner's Corner, but I do not believe they existed at the time of the 1960 World Series.

@Mikey300

7 жыл бұрын

Thomas Wolf the way I remember the ground rules is that a batted ball striking the scoreboard was in play, but one striking the big Longines clock or the football clock to the center field side of the clock was a home run. The batting cage was stored in the deepest part of center field near the 457 ft. mark and was in play, but there were yellow stripes on the outfield light towers that if a ball hit on or above the stripe it was a home run. My first game at Friendly Forbes was 29 August 1964.

@clouddweller1195

6 жыл бұрын

No and no.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mikey300 You got it exactly right. The scoreboard was in play....the football clock was a home run. And the giant Longines clock was a HR as well.

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

@@clouddweller1195 You don't know very much, do you? You've showed your ignorance several times on this board.

@TheBatugan77

Жыл бұрын

​@@clouddweller1195 You're getting verbally buffeted by mikey, clod dweller. Deservedly so, I might add.

The left field fence where Maz hit his famous homerun over still exists. The field is now part of a college campus. I think it's Pitt but I'm not sure.

@8avexp

3 жыл бұрын

The section with the 406 mark is gone; that's where Roberto Clemente Drive cuts through. There is a plaque that marks the spot where Maz's home run cleared the wall. The 406 mark itself is preserved at Heinz Field.

@dcasper8514

2 жыл бұрын

DF....yes, that's Pitt's campus ,across the street, that now owns the property.

Where was Kiners Korner?

@8avexp

3 жыл бұрын

Left field, in front of the scoreboard. They moved the bullpens to the outfield, shortening the distance by some 30 feet.

A most unusual MLB ballpark indeed! No where else were the bleachers in foul territory down the left field line, while having a roofed double deck grandstand (from 1925 onward) in fair territory as far as right center field! Now, in Toronto, their main grandstand became the left field bleachers, while the rest of the stands were uncovered (but those bleachers were really chair seats and only a single deck, while both ends of the seating structures were too far from the field for baseball viewing, unlike at Forbes Field! Well, they finally built the new PNC Park just about the best in MLB after thirty years of that big round (actually slightly oval) Three Rivers Stadium that they played baseball and football in! Whereas, in Toronto, the SkyDome was built alright for its time, but out of date after the wave of retro classic and retro modern parks to be built in the last twenty two years or so!

@davidlafleche1142

8 жыл бұрын

+Zach LaFleur The backstop was insanely far away, at 109 feet!

@zachlafleur6651

8 жыл бұрын

David Lafleche That's correct, it was 109 (or 110) feet from home plate from when it was brand new in 1909 until the 1925 addition (then, for some unusual reason, they decentered the diamond towards the first base side)! Imagine if they would have built the same style of grandstand in left field? Then, there probably wouldn't have been a need for Three Rivers Stadium (nor even PNC Park), unless Forbes Field would have been falling apart by 2000, that is?

Where the steelers wore the striped jerseys

How did kiner win 7 hr titles in this huge park. Mantle hit picnic tables beyond right field at his 1st at bat in Forbes field. No wonder Clemente hit to the gaps, vast power alleys

@russs7574

2 жыл бұрын

When the Pirates had Hank Greenberg on the team, (after World War II) the team fenced off an area in front of the left field scoreboard and wall and relocated the bullpens there. It was called "Greenberg Gardens" made it about 30' shallower, and removed the necessity to hit a ball over that scoreboard to get a home run. If I recall correctly, the scoreboard was a little over 25 feet high. The bullpens were left there for Kiner, and the area became known as "Kiner's Korner," which is where the name for his pre- and post- game shows for the Mets came from.

@roadtrip2943

2 жыл бұрын

@@russs7574 that's a great factoid to consider. Quite a few 50s era ballparks were huge in power alleys, center field I always thought Forbes was one of them.

@kevinmadden1645

Ай бұрын

Mantle did not homer in the first 1960 World Series game . He homered in games 2,3 and 6.

Who sings this song?

Good video but I had to turn off the music, which I found to be kind of hippy sounding. Anyhow good video.

@kevinmiller6324

3 жыл бұрын

@Nimfa McDonald Takes one to know one.

@markmartinie9409

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmiller6324 great tune if you ask me.;)

@TheBatugan77

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmiller6324 Watch your mouth. Punk.

Some of you... You know who you are... Should STILL be ashamed of yourselves.

It doesn't make any sense, the Pirates stayed in Pittsburgh anyways

Uncle Elmer

This place was a dump with a capital "D" . There were sandlot fields with better maintained infields.