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In 1940, the baseball is known as America's Favorite game and the national pastime. There were sixteen major league teams, all in the Northeast and Midwest, each night more than a train ride all others. The teams have been around for two generations, and each had their own traditions, legends, its own loyal fan base, its own pantheon of heroes,
Admission prices were low and means can afford to go to the games from the bleacher seats fifty cents, one dollar grandstand, reserved seats and $ 1.75, as I recall, (I never sat in one) box, $ 2.25. When the war started, that nailed to ten percent amusement tax, and I especially remember a locker in which the soldiers paid thirty-five cents for grandstand seats.
There were no pictures of the companies or the luxury suites at the time, and artificial turf had not been invented yet. Games were played in ancient herb for men baggy flannel uniforms and if you're hungry during a game that had a choice of cooked sausages Harry Stevens (who has the name "hot dog" at the Pole Grounds) peanuts, Crackerjacks and bricks little vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream. If the thirst that was soda, beer and coffee.
There were three teams in New York City, the Giants and Dodgers in the NL, the Yankees in the American League. Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis, had teams in both leagues, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh had the National League teams, Cleveland, Detroit and Washington, the American League teams.
Most New York fans were children the Yankees. Babe Ruth to the Yankees had the most popular team in baseball before the transfer at Yankee Stadium in 1923. (John McGraw of the Giants, they were taken from the Polo Grounds, because with Ruth on their roster, were attracting more crowds than the Giants at Giants stadium itself.)
From 1936 to 1943, the Yankees won the Latin League pennant seven times, the World Series six times. Yankees Ten of those years were inducted into the Hall of Fame: Manager Joe McCarthy, general manager Ed Barrow and player Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Joe Gordon, Phil Rizzuto and Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio, in his first six years had a batting average of .340, slugging average over .600 and hit over 200 homers. He was paid $ 43,750 at the time and left the Yankees for three seasons to enlist in the Army Air Force. After the Yankees, the Dodgers were next in popularity and finally came my New York Giants.
The Giants are the richest history early. My father saw Amos Russia launched more than 500 entries in three seasons and had four seasons in which he won over 30 games. My father recalled John McGraw as a player and coach and Frank Bowerman, first receiver to use shin guards and that he had seen Roger Bresnahan, 'Joe Iron Man' McGinnity, 'ghost' Taylor and Christy Mathewson. Mathewson, along with Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth, Hans Wagner and Ty Cobb were considered the top five players in baseball history and became the first five to be voted into the Hall of Fame in 1936.
The Giants lost World Series to the Yankees in 1936 and '37, and after he went into a decline that lasted until 1950. It's easy being a Yankee or Dodger fan in the 1940s, but being a giant fan took strength of character, or maybe just pure stubbornness.
Baseball was the secular religion of United States in those days and the stages, each different from all others, were their cathedrals. When mixed through the turnstiles for the first time as a child and tore half of your ticket, you knew that his grandfather had taken her father before you were born and felt something that bordered on the sacramental now his father was taking you.
Traditions had grown around each of the sixteen teams around each of its stages and throughout the game itself. Each new season was unique, but at the same time, each one a link in the chain of all those who came before and all who were yet to come to the extent that the mind could see. The players, club owners, fans, sportswriters and radio stations that describes each field to field gambling, were part of that tradition and every one felt a personal responsibility to help carry it forward into the future.
Name: Herb Lobsenz
Website: http://www.oldtimewriter.com
I’m trying to prevent the disappearance of interesting people, places and deeds I’ve run into by preserving their memory in writing. So far my oldtimewriter blog covers Manhattan in the 1930s, 40s and 50s–marble shooting, stoop ball, punch ball, the milkman, the organ grinder, the streetsweeper, the iceman, Frankie the Fixer, Abner the Stooper, Lockup Bill, The Penguin, Cedric the Singles Hitter. Future recollections will include Joe Louis, the Polo Grounds, the baseball Giants, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Korean War.
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