The Polo Grounds would be a great addition to your layout, Arnold! I didn't realize how close in proximity the Polo Grounds was to Yankee Stadium. I'm a huge baseball fan and love learning all I can about the great stadiums of the past.
I think you can pull of the Polo Grounds, just like you did for your Yankee Stadium. While I really appreciate those who can recreate perfect scale models of buildings - literally recreating a smaller version of reality - your job building this stadium is to give the audience the "feeling" of the stadium, not recreate reality. I view this similar to the different painting styles over the years. While realism has it's place and is impressive in its own right, an expressionist painting such as "The Scream" by Edvard Munch evokes an emotional feeling. You accomplished the feeling of Yankee Stadium with Monument Park and the white facade above the scoreboard, but it also maintains a sandlot feel - reminding us of the days when we would play with our friends and dream of playing in Yankee Stadium.
To me, a baseball nut, but not intimately familiar with NY, the Polo Grounds has the following distinctive characteristics:
1. The field's shape in general, but specifically the unusually deep center field and equally unusual short distance to the foul poles...actually it would fit nicely within an 031 oval. The scale is less important than the actual shape.
2. The clubhouse building, plastered with advertising (Chesterfield Cigarettes?), nestled into the center field bleachers
3. Willy Mays making the catch in deep center
4. Bobby Thompson's shot heard round the world "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maybe you could have a little sound clip play there with a push of a button?
5. People sneaking a peak from Coogan's Bluff
6. I didn't realize this before, but there was a huge rail yard right next to the Polo Grounds!
There are some nice pictures here: https://www.nydailynews.com/sp...on-article-1.2287046
