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The leader of the New Netherlands, Wouter Van Twiller, makes a deal with the Canarsee Indians for the island now known as Governor's Island. He is believed to have obtained the land for his personal use, in exchange for two axe heads, a string of
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May 9, 2013 The same shade of brown colors every apartment door on the third floor of a hulking building in the Polo Grounds Towers, a public housing complex in East Harlem. Except for a door at the end of the hall that one is a deep red. The fresh
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Italian explorer Giovanni Da Verrazano becomes the first European to sail into New York harbor. Today the suspension bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn bears his name...The seeds of Bloomingdale's Department store are sewn when the
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Patrick Burns/The New York Times Casey Stengel, the Mets' manager, protesting a call on April 9, 1963. After all, it was on April 9, 1963, that the Polo Grounds hosted the last opening day in its long history. The Mets not the Giants, who left for
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Examiner MoMo's, across the street from AT&T Park, is so busy during opening weekend that it has to keep a trailer full of extra alcohol at the ready. As baseball returns to the ballpark by the Bay, it brings with it brisk business for the
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Yankees A tall, white-haired great-grandfather, he stood at the plate, under pressure to hit a home run...Nonetheless, he crushed one into the right-field stands, then woke up...About 82 years earlier, when Sandlock lived about three miles from where
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Yankees For the last two decades, the Giants have acknowledged their inner Christy Mathewson, their inner Monte Irvin, as part of their heritage...A cadre of Giants, including one Willie Howard Mays Jr., will return to the ancestral home in the next
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01 a.m., Nov. 10, 2012 On a recent Monday morning, still grinning after Game 4 of the World Series the previous night, Arthur Freddolino walked out to his mailbox with a broom and a sign. He was perhaps the only Giants fan in Fallbrook to assemble a
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Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection The Polo Grounds was the Giants' home field during the 1912 World Series...It's too early to know whether the 2012 World Series between the Giants and the Detroit Tigers will supply the exquisite
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October 1, 2012 Playoff baseball will soon be in the air; however, it is doubtful if any moment will take place to compare with what happened in Manhattan those long years ago. Throughout the long history of baseball there have been poignant,
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