DVD of the Last NY Giants Game at The Polo Grounds

A testimony to the greatness of a DVD of the last New York Giants’ game at the Polo Grounds that was played on September 29,1957, recorded and produced by baseball historian Moe Resner is the many times my mind opened new and old “doors” concerning the people who come to life via the DVD, on the hallowed green of the Polo Grounds that day.

Mr. Resner recorded it and it is a treasure. I once heard esteemed hockey announcer Mike Emrick talk of how God (I add, or at least some force) creates memories, but one great thing us humans did was create ways to preserve those memories.

In this case Moe Resner hit the jackpot having taken a five cent subway ride from the Bronx to the Polo Grounds that September 29, 1957 and brought with him a camera.

He recorded it and now it is available to be watched over and over, a true treasure which includes pregame/last game ceremonies that brought back so many Giants’ greats.

Among other things, the festivities enabled great Giants’ lefthanded pitchers of different eras, Rube Marquard and Carl Hubbell, to meet for the first time.

Mrs. John Mc Graw, the widow of the legendary Giants manager, is shown and in the game won by the Pittsburgh Pirates (9-1) over the Giants, two of the greatest players I ever saw and anyone ever saw play, the Pirates’ Roberto Clemente (3) and the Giants’ Willie Mays, (2) combined for 5 hits.

“Everything that dies someday comes back,” Bruce Springsteen sings in the song “Atlantic City.”

Maybe that is so as the winning pitcher for the Pirates in the last game at the Polo Grounds was Bob Friend. Less than 7 years later, the New York Mets, whose birth in 1962 brought National League baseball back to New York, opened their new Shea Stadium in a (4-3) loss to the Pirates. The winning pitcher was Bob Friend, Roberto Clemente had 3 hits.

Mo Resner’s great DVD which includes music from Perry Lee Barber, who once was an opening act for Mr. Springsteen, opened my heart and mind to all of the above and much more. It is a priceless item. The DVD is available for purchase contact Mr. Resner at mrresner@aol.com