Dennis Coxe

Dennis Coxe

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Ballparks of Philadelphia

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Waterford Beach in December

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  • @stevewixom9311
    @stevewixom931118 күн бұрын

    Loved to have seen a game at Crosley Field. There was just something special about the old ballparks. Each seems to have it own personality.

  • @JonEoinSaoradh
    @JonEoinSaoradh20 күн бұрын

    Its wild seeing just how drastic the curve was going into the left field fence at Crosley Field... Its stuff that literally will never exist again, short of weirdo kitsch

  • @JonEoinSaoradh
    @JonEoinSaoradh20 күн бұрын

    The Palace of the Fans is imo one of the most venerable pre-modern baseball parks...

  • @bigbadredsox
    @bigbadredsox23 күн бұрын

    Crosley Field was the best MLB ballpark ever, no doubt to me. Riverfront sucked!!!!!

  • @XXX-rc6qt
    @XXX-rc6qtАй бұрын

    I was sitting in the upper deck behind home plate, for the last game at Connie Mack, it wasn’t as bad as you stated. Pretty sure nobody was seriously hurt and Maybe a few arrests. It was a good game too. Otherwise nice work👍

  • @johnu1100
    @johnu1100Ай бұрын

    Reds were not actually expelled by the league. They left the league rather than sign on to the alcohol ban.

  • @CrazyTruckinS10
    @CrazyTruckinS10Ай бұрын

    Auch creative team names hahahahaahah

  • @pennyandwoody
    @pennyandwoody2 ай бұрын

    I wish I could have seen Crosley field with my own eyes. But my dad got to see it. He was like 8 or 9 when we went to a reds game.

  • @ricpic1
    @ricpic12 ай бұрын

    Bad Dream A youngish man sits in the upper deck of a ballpark. His wife sits at a distance, As unreadable as a sphinx. He leans over and sees The broken owner of the team lying in the lower deck. There are other men sitting in the lower deck. Big men. They have attractive wives and beautiful daughters and The best seats for viewing the game. It is an injustice! And will be forever. The youngish man has a paddle To save the broken owner. He extends the paddle... ...my eyes open.

  • @pauleilerman3
    @pauleilerman33 ай бұрын

    GABP is an absolute gem. I hope it can start to see some success

  • @EmergencyGuy
    @EmergencyGuy3 ай бұрын

    I’ve been to the bank twice. Great place to watch Phillies baseball. My first ever trip there was on a bus.

  • @nkynightowl
    @nkynightowl3 ай бұрын

    Excellent! I learned so much! Thanks for the photos of the old Crosley field with surrounding housing. My grandfather was born on W Liberty.

  • @jesusm2159
    @jesusm21595 ай бұрын

    Can they make stadium similar to that one

  • @highbidder3952
    @highbidder39526 ай бұрын

    My father sold news papers near the entrance of the park during a Reds game. I went to the park a few times as a kid. This was fun to watch. Thanks Dennis.

  • @michaelcanney7218
    @michaelcanney72183 ай бұрын

    Small world......I used to buy newspapers near the entrance of the park

  • @luv2sail66
    @luv2sail667 ай бұрын

    Excellent presentation! This was very detailed and obviously took a lot of research. I enjoyed it very much and I’m not even a Phillies fan.

  • @3WordsCollector
    @3WordsCollector7 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video

  • @jameslandolt5835
    @jameslandolt58357 ай бұрын

    Really enjoyed the video. DC stadium was the model for the era of the multipurpose stadiums including Veterans stadium and opened in 1961 for football and 1962 the Senators moved from Griffith stadium. It was natural grass and never artificial turf. The Phillies were always my NL team (until Nats III) and loved Veterans stadium.

  • @johnkelly6925
    @johnkelly69257 ай бұрын

    I saw the last doubleheader in June 1970. I remember Johnny Bench hitting a ho 4:06 4:07 me run off the scoreboard clock against Fred Norman a future teammate

  • @michaelcanney7218
    @michaelcanney72183 ай бұрын

    Johnny who?

  • @TheBatugan77
    @TheBatugan778 ай бұрын

    The 1894 Phillies were an offensive juggernaut. They had FOUR .400 outfielders!

  • @Holylightt99
    @Holylightt9910 ай бұрын

    Not a bad video but your lisp is kinda annoying

  • @TheBatugan77
    @TheBatugan778 ай бұрын

    @holywhatever I'll bet you getting your teeth kicked in will be more annoying.

  • @robbieg416
    @robbieg41610 ай бұрын

    This was wonderful!

  • @jsryan11
    @jsryan1111 ай бұрын

    Great video. My grandpa has his picture in the front of paper from the early 1960’s catching a home run in right field behind a leaping Roberto Clemente. Every household in the family has it framed. The best part of the story is that he played hooky from school that day, and ended up getting busted by his dad when his boy-scout troop took a trip to the paper press the next day. And his face was front and center on the daily paper

  • @aaronwilliams6989
    @aaronwilliams6989 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating video!

  • @dariowiter3078
    @dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful history of a legendary ballpark. ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ 🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️ 😁😁😁😁😁

  • @dillonmason6051
    @dillonmason6051 Жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @robhammersmith2984
    @robhammersmith2984 Жыл бұрын

    There is incorrect information in this video. The Red Stockings did not move to Bank Street Grounds for the 1880 season. Nor did the Red Stockings get expelled from the National League. Also the reason the Red Stockings had to move to Findley and Western in 1884 has something to do with what really happened in 1879-80 in Cincinnati. The truth that the current Reds team hides from its history is that the 1879 Red Stockings were in such financial dismay that they failed to pay all their players for the last month of the 1879 season, submitted their official withdrawal from the National League (the letter was sold at auction a few years ago), and went bankrupt and defunct. Upon hearing of the Red Stockings demise, Justus Thorner, the owner of a semi-pro baseball club called the Cincinnati Stars, used the opportunity to submit the application for the Cincinnati Stars to join the National League, and they were accepted and played in the NL for the 1880 season. Justus Thorner was the manager of a local brewery and used his baseball team ownership to increase beer sales for his brewery. He was already doing that at Bank Street Grounds in 1879 when the Stars were semi-pro and did it again in 1880 when the Stars were fully pro in the NL. The Red Stockings never moved there. The Stars were already there. It was this beer selling that Thorner was doing that got his Stars expelled from the NL after their first and only season in the NL. Thorner was one of the key individuals behind the creation of the American Association, a new pro league that was also pro "beer and whisky". When the new American Association began play in 1882, Thorner's new team chose the name the Red Stockings instead of his old team's name the Stars, because the locals preferred the Red Stockings name over Stars as the Red Stockings name was used for four seasons in the NL and was also the name of the famous 1869/70 team. Thorner had a falling out with his new team in the middle of the first 1882 season, and he left. He went on to be part the of the new Union Association in 1884. And because his brewery was closely tied to beer distribution at Bank Street Grounds, he got the Red Stockings team that he created kicked out of Bank Street Grounds so that his new Outlaw Reds could play there in the UA. That is what sent the Red Stockings to Findley and Western.

  • @TheBatugan77
    @TheBatugan778 ай бұрын

    @rob Please... elaborate. 😧😦😮😯😲

  • @TheBatugan77
    @TheBatugan77 Жыл бұрын

    Kudos to all the Athletic supporters.

  • @richthehoser
    @richthehoser Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video. I really enjoyed watching this. Big thanks from up here in Toronto!

  • @k1ndalow
    @k1ndalow2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, Wanted to know all this and happy I found the video. Grandpa got to meet Johnny Bench a few times thru his job, Hell of a ballplayer and guy he said.

  • @tedharrington5432
    @tedharrington54322 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! We need another Beer and Whiskey League.

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    @ishdesai40804 жыл бұрын

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  • @coffeehubby
    @coffeehubby6 жыл бұрын

    Cool pictures!

  • @Mikey-mike
    @Mikey-mike12 жыл бұрын

    I remember that year too. I was 10 and went to a lot of the games with my dad. I remember my dad telling me that the new computers said the Phillies were gonna win; I thought it was all in the bag. I remember after the loss thinking that those computers weren't as good as they were hyped up to be. :)

  • @MickeyMorandini1
    @MickeyMorandini113 жыл бұрын

    great teams have an aura about them. they know how to close the door late in the game and late in the reason. The 64 Phillies just couldn't reach that level of greatness. Gene Mauch managed not to lose at the end and the Philly players played just good enough to lose the pennant overall. that has to haunt those of them who are still living. and will forever...