Polo Grounds

Polo Grounds was the name of three different sports stadiums in Manhattan, New York City, all of which were used as baseball stadiums by the New York Giants - sometimes overlapping in time - from 1883 until they moved to San Francisco in 1957. While the first stadium was located immediately north of Central Park, Polo Grounds II and III were built immediately adjacent to each other in the southern part of Washington Heights at 155th Street on the north side of the island.

The name Polo Grounds originated as a generic descriptive name for the first stadium of the name built as Polo Stadium, evolved into a true name for the Giants' stadium, which followed the team as the stadium changed to the new stadium, each under a different name of already existing stadium. This got to the point where Polo Grounds II and III were in operation at the same time, and when the Giants switched from II to III, II became Manhattan Field, while the stadium previously called Brotherhood Park now became the third Polo Grounds. After the 3rd Stadium was rebuilt after a fire in 1911, it was called Brush Stadium until 1919. In 1963, the 3rd and final stadium was demolished.

In addition to the primary user, the New York Giants, MLB teams the New York Yankees, the New York Mets, and the New York Metropolitans also played at Polo Grounds for a few years each.

Polo Grounds was also used for other sports. So it was home stadium for a total of four NFL teams New York Brickley Giants (1921), New York Giants (1925-1955), New York Jets (1960-1963) and New York Bulldogs (1949) and was used again and again for football matches, among other things, Israel played its first international match here on 26 September 1948 (USA - Israel 3:1). The third stadium was also used for big boxing matches.