In 1962, Homer was supposed to run around the bases at the Polo Grounds after the Mets connected.

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On Oct. 3, 1951, Thomson, an outfielder with the New York Giants, hit a pennant-winning home run off of the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds.

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Meanwhile, the Giants have not won a World Series title since they moved to San Francisco, last winning when the Polo Grounds was still in existence in 1954.

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We didn't hear a lot of stories about, you know, listening to baseball games on transistor radios on tractors or going with their grandfather to the polo grounds.

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Last year, after all the confetti had been cleaned up and the players had gone home, Willie Mays took the trophy back to the site of the old Polo Grounds in New York.

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Boston started a season by scoring seven or more runs in consecutive road games for the first time since 1919 when they beat the Yankees 10-0 at the Polo Grounds and defeated the Washington Senators 8-0 at Griffith Stadium.

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The horses were part of the Venezuela-based Lechuza Caracas team and were being kept at the team's trailers on the grounds of the International Polo Club Palm Beach.

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