[75] In 1930, Josh Gibson made his premiere for the Grays at Forbes Field. Specialty Museums, Sports Camps & Clinics. Like a centerfold, TV leaves little to fantasy. You can kiss that one goodbye!” – Pirates, 2-0. There was a large, uncovered bleacher section down the left field line, and a smaller set of bleachers positioned behind the right field fence. The facade featured a buff colored terra cotta with steel painted light green and red tinted slate roof.
Please choose a different date. Wanting to expand its campus, Pitt purchased Forbes Field in 1958 with an agreement to lease the ballpark to the Pirates until a replacement could be built. It also was where the team that would become the Pittsburgh Steelers played their first games. It is a marvel of which people in other cities can have no adequate conception until they come here and see it. The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924. A press box that became known as the “Crows Nest” was constructed in 1938 on the top of the grandstand roof behind homeplate. [21] During the final game of the 1960 World Series, Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek was struck in the neck with a ball that bounced off the hard dirt surface, breaking up a potentially rally-killing double play and causing Kubek to exit the game. See more ideas about Forbes field, Forbes, Baseball stadium. ", Defunct stadiums of the National Football League, †= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time, Defunct ballparks in Major League Baseball. Forbes Field’s inaugural campaign, although just half of one, would be a delightfully memorable one for Barney Dreyfuss and the Pirates. Three hundred miles to the west, the Phillies’ main foe turned green. The 1951 movie Angels in the Outfield was filmed at Forbes Field.
The walls were so far back at Forbes, it was assumed that no outfielder would ever crash into one chasing a deep fly. The view from the upper deck must have seemed like something out of Oz. You could do it, add bleacher seats.
“The House of Thrills it was, and in memory still is.”. Ralph Kiner hit 175 home runs at Forbes Field. To the Pirates new ballpark, Forbes Field, as the team is in the midst of winning 110 games and going onto the 1909 World Series.
Dreyfuss knew he had to find a better place to play than a flood zone within one of Pittsburgh’s more unfriendly neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, Bob Costas, 8, retired to his room. “But I kept mute for 24 hours – protesting this cosmic curse.” In suburban Pittsburgh, Larry Lucchino, 15, was walking home from school. Duquesne University also played many of their home games there in the 1930s and 1940s. [58] The left-center and center field brick wall with "457 FT" and "436 FT" painted on it still stands at its original location, along with the stadium's flagpole, adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh's Mervis and Posvar Halls.
But the NL wanted to contract from 12 teams to eight for 1900—with Louisville as one of the casualties. The 1960 Pirates drew a record 1.7 million fans to Forbes, but the decade to follow showed a still-competitive team tolerating a decaying ballpark living on borrowed time as local politicians argued over the This and That of Three Rivers Stadium. For left-handed, dead-pull sluggers, the closer reach provided with a chance to poke a routine fly past the right-field foul pole, a temporary boon that lasted seven years until 1932 when the Pirates erected a screen measuring anywhere from 14-to-18 feet above the wall from the pole to 376 in right.
Please choose a different date. Wanting to expand its campus, Pitt purchased Forbes Field in 1958 with an agreement to lease the ballpark to the Pirates until a replacement could be built. It also was where the team that would become the Pittsburgh Steelers played their first games. It is a marvel of which people in other cities can have no adequate conception until they come here and see it. The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924. A press box that became known as the “Crows Nest” was constructed in 1938 on the top of the grandstand roof behind homeplate. [21] During the final game of the 1960 World Series, Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek was struck in the neck with a ball that bounced off the hard dirt surface, breaking up a potentially rally-killing double play and causing Kubek to exit the game. See more ideas about Forbes field, Forbes, Baseball stadium. ", Defunct stadiums of the National Football League, †= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time, Defunct ballparks in Major League Baseball. Forbes Field’s inaugural campaign, although just half of one, would be a delightfully memorable one for Barney Dreyfuss and the Pirates. Three hundred miles to the west, the Phillies’ main foe turned green. The 1951 movie Angels in the Outfield was filmed at Forbes Field.
The walls were so far back at Forbes, it was assumed that no outfielder would ever crash into one chasing a deep fly. The view from the upper deck must have seemed like something out of Oz. You could do it, add bleacher seats.
“The House of Thrills it was, and in memory still is.”. Ralph Kiner hit 175 home runs at Forbes Field. To the Pirates new ballpark, Forbes Field, as the team is in the midst of winning 110 games and going onto the 1909 World Series.
Dreyfuss knew he had to find a better place to play than a flood zone within one of Pittsburgh’s more unfriendly neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, Bob Costas, 8, retired to his room. “But I kept mute for 24 hours – protesting this cosmic curse.” In suburban Pittsburgh, Larry Lucchino, 15, was walking home from school. Duquesne University also played many of their home games there in the 1930s and 1940s. [58] The left-center and center field brick wall with "457 FT" and "436 FT" painted on it still stands at its original location, along with the stadium's flagpole, adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh's Mervis and Posvar Halls.
But the NL wanted to contract from 12 teams to eight for 1900—with Louisville as one of the casualties. The 1960 Pirates drew a record 1.7 million fans to Forbes, but the decade to follow showed a still-competitive team tolerating a decaying ballpark living on borrowed time as local politicians argued over the This and That of Three Rivers Stadium. For left-handed, dead-pull sluggers, the closer reach provided with a chance to poke a routine fly past the right-field foul pole, a temporary boon that lasted seven years until 1932 when the Pirates erected a screen measuring anywhere from 14-to-18 feet above the wall from the pole to 376 in right.
Please choose a different date. Wanting to expand its campus, Pitt purchased Forbes Field in 1958 with an agreement to lease the ballpark to the Pirates until a replacement could be built. It also was where the team that would become the Pittsburgh Steelers played their first games. It is a marvel of which people in other cities can have no adequate conception until they come here and see it. The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924. A press box that became known as the “Crows Nest” was constructed in 1938 on the top of the grandstand roof behind homeplate. [21] During the final game of the 1960 World Series, Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek was struck in the neck with a ball that bounced off the hard dirt surface, breaking up a potentially rally-killing double play and causing Kubek to exit the game. See more ideas about Forbes field, Forbes, Baseball stadium. ", Defunct stadiums of the National Football League, †= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time, Defunct ballparks in Major League Baseball. Forbes Field’s inaugural campaign, although just half of one, would be a delightfully memorable one for Barney Dreyfuss and the Pirates. Three hundred miles to the west, the Phillies’ main foe turned green. The 1951 movie Angels in the Outfield was filmed at Forbes Field.
The walls were so far back at Forbes, it was assumed that no outfielder would ever crash into one chasing a deep fly. The view from the upper deck must have seemed like something out of Oz. You could do it, add bleacher seats.
“The House of Thrills it was, and in memory still is.”. Ralph Kiner hit 175 home runs at Forbes Field. To the Pirates new ballpark, Forbes Field, as the team is in the midst of winning 110 games and going onto the 1909 World Series.
Dreyfuss knew he had to find a better place to play than a flood zone within one of Pittsburgh’s more unfriendly neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, Bob Costas, 8, retired to his room. “But I kept mute for 24 hours – protesting this cosmic curse.” In suburban Pittsburgh, Larry Lucchino, 15, was walking home from school. Duquesne University also played many of their home games there in the 1930s and 1940s. [58] The left-center and center field brick wall with "457 FT" and "436 FT" painted on it still stands at its original location, along with the stadium's flagpole, adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh's Mervis and Posvar Halls.
But the NL wanted to contract from 12 teams to eight for 1900—with Louisville as one of the casualties. The 1960 Pirates drew a record 1.7 million fans to Forbes, but the decade to follow showed a still-competitive team tolerating a decaying ballpark living on borrowed time as local politicians argued over the This and That of Three Rivers Stadium. For left-handed, dead-pull sluggers, the closer reach provided with a chance to poke a routine fly past the right-field foul pole, a temporary boon that lasted seven years until 1932 when the Pirates erected a screen measuring anywhere from 14-to-18 feet above the wall from the pole to 376 in right.
The game’s final out wasn’t without suspense; under darkening, threatening skies, New York outfielder Red Murray ran to make the final catch and, at that very moment, was knocked unconscious by a lightning bolt—and managed to still hold on to the ball. [20] On September 30, 1962, a crowd of 40,916 people saw the Steelers defeated by the New York Giants, at the Steelers' highest-attended game at the stadium.[45]. “Deep into right field! "[63] However, the original location of the home plate has been more recently determined by others to be approximately 81 feet (25 m) away from its current display, just inside the GSPIA/Economics Library, and not in a restroom as has been popularly believed. -Architect: Osborn Engineering “You got a lot of practice,” colleague Jim Woods once said. Forbes Field’s infield was as hard as rock—alabaster plaster, famed Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince frequently called it—and its unpredictable hops made cursing sailors out of choir boys whose jobs it was to get a glove on them. A year later, Sam died; a year after that, so did Barney. Originally the bullpens were located in foul territory down the first and third base lines. The stadium was named after its adjacent street, Forbes Ave., itself named for British general John Forbes, who fought in the French and Indian War and named the city in 1758. Inside, Forbes Field initially would consist of a double-decked grandstand that extended just past each base, a common sight among the new steel-and-concrete ballparks of the time before expansionmania hit in the 1920s. [21] 2,000 bleachers were situated along the left field side, tickets were sold for a maximum of $1. Relics from the ballpark, including stadium seats were sold for $5 each. You know something? [3] The closeness of the right field line from 1925 onward was the only area that compromised Dreyfuss' original design concept. Baseball links geography, and rivalry. However, just because Forbes Field was torn down, that doesn’t mean that it’s completely gone. [75] In 1930, Josh Gibson made his premiere for the Grays at Forbes Field. Specialty Museums, Sports Camps & Clinics. Like a centerfold, TV leaves little to fantasy. You can kiss that one goodbye!” – Pirates, 2-0. There was a large, uncovered bleacher section down the left field line, and a smaller set of bleachers positioned behind the right field fence. The facade featured a buff colored terra cotta with steel painted light green and red tinted slate roof.
Please choose a different date. Wanting to expand its campus, Pitt purchased Forbes Field in 1958 with an agreement to lease the ballpark to the Pirates until a replacement could be built. It also was where the team that would become the Pittsburgh Steelers played their first games. It is a marvel of which people in other cities can have no adequate conception until they come here and see it. The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924. A press box that became known as the “Crows Nest” was constructed in 1938 on the top of the grandstand roof behind homeplate. [21] During the final game of the 1960 World Series, Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek was struck in the neck with a ball that bounced off the hard dirt surface, breaking up a potentially rally-killing double play and causing Kubek to exit the game. See more ideas about Forbes field, Forbes, Baseball stadium. ", Defunct stadiums of the National Football League, †= Team's stadium under construction or refurbishment at time, Defunct ballparks in Major League Baseball. Forbes Field’s inaugural campaign, although just half of one, would be a delightfully memorable one for Barney Dreyfuss and the Pirates. Three hundred miles to the west, the Phillies’ main foe turned green. The 1951 movie Angels in the Outfield was filmed at Forbes Field.
The walls were so far back at Forbes, it was assumed that no outfielder would ever crash into one chasing a deep fly. The view from the upper deck must have seemed like something out of Oz. You could do it, add bleacher seats.
“The House of Thrills it was, and in memory still is.”. Ralph Kiner hit 175 home runs at Forbes Field. To the Pirates new ballpark, Forbes Field, as the team is in the midst of winning 110 games and going onto the 1909 World Series.
Dreyfuss knew he had to find a better place to play than a flood zone within one of Pittsburgh’s more unfriendly neighborhoods. In Los Angeles, Bob Costas, 8, retired to his room. “But I kept mute for 24 hours – protesting this cosmic curse.” In suburban Pittsburgh, Larry Lucchino, 15, was walking home from school. Duquesne University also played many of their home games there in the 1930s and 1940s. [58] The left-center and center field brick wall with "457 FT" and "436 FT" painted on it still stands at its original location, along with the stadium's flagpole, adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh's Mervis and Posvar Halls.
But the NL wanted to contract from 12 teams to eight for 1900—with Louisville as one of the casualties. The 1960 Pirates drew a record 1.7 million fans to Forbes, but the decade to follow showed a still-competitive team tolerating a decaying ballpark living on borrowed time as local politicians argued over the This and That of Three Rivers Stadium. For left-handed, dead-pull sluggers, the closer reach provided with a chance to poke a routine fly past the right-field foul pole, a temporary boon that lasted seven years until 1932 when the Pirates erected a screen measuring anywhere from 14-to-18 feet above the wall from the pole to 376 in right.
In 1925, the two main decks were extended with a pair of 40-degree turns, one cutting into right field and the other squaring up behind the existing outfield wall to right-center. [27] Harold W. Arlin announced the play-by-play action between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies over KDKA from a box seat next to the first-base dugout.