Remember Tal's Hill?
doubledragon
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That weird hill in Houston, and there was a flag pole on it, so you had to be careful not to run into the pole.
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A baseball oddity l, like the Tropicana catwalks above the field.
I always liked the ivory walls at Wrigley.
Anyway, cool baseball oddities.
The most legendary oddity, the Green monster at Fenway.
The beer slide in Milwaukee.
Bernie's Dugout, Miller Park.
The Chase Field swimming pool.
There was actually a tank of cow nose rays at Tropicana field, and the fans could pet and feed them during games.
I never saw anything like that pole in the outfield like that before
It is crazy, I got bored and decided to look at these weird baseball field oddities, cool stuff!
Polo Grounds, 483 feet to dead centerfield. It was conquered by few in about 80 years of play, and was the quintessential old-school ballpark that allowed few home runs to anywhere but down the lines, what a monster.
Just a behemoth of a ballpark, fascinating.
I wonder how many more HR's Mays would have had, had the Polo Grounds not been his home stadium, imagine if the Set Hey Kid played at EBetts Field??
Tiger Stadium and (for awhile) Comerica Park both had flagpoles in fair territory.
That was always one enjoyable aspect about baseball. The quirkiness of the stadiums. With no set dimensions like the other 3 major sports they could be constructed per the liking of ownership. All those old ads along the walls:Gem blades, Gillette razors etc. The scoreboards.
Remember the home run Apple at Shea stadium, it used to pop up when a Met hit a home run.
The home run Apple started to malfunction and had to be retired.
Another one of my favorites is McCovey cove, the people in the water trying to catch a home run ball.
I remember that hill. What a crazy idea.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
That's crazy. I don't know how I never knew that from all the ESPN Baseball Tonight I've watched unless it was before the early 90's
the skull-buster flag pole in old school Tiger Stadium...
i've been to many games at Minute Maid over the years -- many before Tal's Hill was removed. it's amazing the things you should remember but don't, and the crap you shouldn't remember but do. i can't remember where i put my car keys 10 minutes ago, but i'll never forget watching a guy named Andy Tracy (who played for Montreal) launching a missile to dead center that went over the 436 sign.
just to make sure my memory isn't failing me, i looked up his home runs.............all 13 of them during his career. sure enough, there it is on 8/5/2000 -- the year i moved to Houston -- against Jose Lima (Lima time, believe it!). he also hit another off of Lima a few months earlier, but that game took place in Montreal.
if he could have faced Lima every time he walked to the plate, he might have had more than a cup of coffee in the major leagues! ☕️
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
We enjoyed Lima Time briefly here in KC, as well.
I didn't know Comerica had one until I went to confirm my memory regarding Tiger Stadium. So if was news to me, too.
As for Tiger Stadium, I watched hundreds of games over the years. I don't recall the flagpole ever coming into play. Probably because it was roughly 8 miles from home plate.