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MELGAR posted:

Terrific, Arnold! I guess you have to be old enough to remember Bronx/Manhattan, Yankees/Giants in the 1950s to appreciate it fully. But that includes me!

MELGAR

Thank you, Melgar.

My only recollection of the Polo Grounds was the Mets playing there in the early 1960s, not the NY Giants beforehand. I chose the Polo Grounds for my layout because it was just across the Harlem River from Yankee Stadium, and so close to the Sedgewick Avenue Station on The Put. 

I do regard Willie Mays as arguably the greatest baseball player of all time. Growing up as a child of the 1960s in the NYC metro area and obsessed about baseball back then, the greatest of all was either Willie, Mickey and the Duke, as the comedian Billy Crystal says.

The Yankees are in my DNA; my Italian American father's idol was Joe DiMaggio and mine was Mickey Mantle. Before the Mets, my 2nd favorite team before the Mets would be the Dodgers because of the greatness of Sandy Koufax, the charm of Ebbetts Field and Doris Kearns Goodwin's delightful book, Wait Till Next Year. But location is everything, so the Polo Grounds, not Ebbetts Field, gets the nod as the 2nd ball park on my model railroad. Arnold

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