The one place you could have seen

As I’ve mentioned here before, one of my main hobbies is collecting original broadcasts of sporting and news events. On the eve of me turning 45, and as my wife and 2-year-old daughter are asleep, I sat out on our front porch smoking a Cuban and enjoying a dram of a single malt. And I listened to the 6/20/67 game between the Mets and Phillies, with Lindsay Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner on the call.

The one thing I hope to find in this hobby is a video clip of a game at Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium. In this hobby, there are clips from Crosley Field, the Polo Grounds, and Forbes Field, among other dearly departed parks. But this audio broadcast is glorious. I could picture Dick Allen hitting one high off the scoreboard for a run-scoring triple, or Larry Jackson striking out another batter. I'm not a Phillies fan, but I'm a stadium fan of this era, and imagining a game in this ballpark is absolutely glorious. I love Victorian architecture, and this stadium to me will be the most beautiful stadium ever constructed. I just wish I could have seen it in person (I was born around the time the wrecking ball laid waste to it, in 1976).

ok, I'm a little buzzed. Don't care. Shibe Park is beautiful. Wish I could have been there. Suffered a terrible ending. What place do you wish you could have seen in person? Maybe in the afterlife, I’ll be able to see a game in the left-field bleachers here, as Dick Allen or Johnny Collison smacked one over the right-field wall.

 

Don't have much to add except to say your words and visual are lovely, @Corky Ramirez up on 94th St. And happy birthday!

 

What Gingerbread said.

Not sports related, but the library at Alexandria still haunts me. Other places would be great to see, but they are simply place-holders for past events. The energy is long gone.
Olduvai Gorge
Beale Street as it was before Boss Crump and the decline
The Globe

 

Detroit in its heyday.

Anthony Bourdain described it as our Roman ruins. I love Chicago, but whenever I’m in Detroit I note just how gigantic the footprint of the city is. I cannot imagine what that city was like to be in when it was the major cultural and economic force of the Midwest.
By the time I started visiting my uncle in the 1980s, it was already in deep decline.

 

From history:

Colussus of Rhodes

The Sphinx in its original form

Machu Pichu in its prime.

from sports:
The original Maple Leafs Garden with Foster Hewitt’s Gondola.

Elysian Fields in Hoboken (one of the alleged birthplaces of professional baseball).

 

To witness DiMaggio playing one of his greatest games live in Yankee Stadium and to feel the crowd. Maybe he tracks down 2 or 3 long flies in the gap, gliding I think is the normally accepted description, and he hits a home run, a double, and maybe gets thrown out in a close play at first.
My father played fastball, loved baseball and spoke of him all the time. I have been curious as to how the DiMaggio legend grew to include places like Winnipeg and my Dad passed before I could even think to ask him if they listened to the WS on the radio or how they knew how great he actually was. Was it all word of mouth, I wonder.

 

When Team USA beat Russia on ice.

When Vesuvius swallowed Pompeii.

 

I would have liked to have been somewhere in the US during August 1945. Maybe catch a ballgame at Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds, then see everyone's reaction when the atomic bomb hit Japan, and have everyone be like ... "We destroyed an entire city with ONE bomb?", then witness VJ Day. Would have to have been one of the most insane days in the country's history.

 

I wish I could have seen the Coliseum before the marble was striped from it. Or gone back to see it used.

The height of Chichen Itza and seen the glories of Mayan math.

To see a play in The Globe before it burned down.

Stadium Era, as a Giants fan I have to say the Polo Grounds. But honestly any of those old ball parks circa 1920s or 30s.

 

RFK with Riggo, Gibbs and Hogs and the place going nuts with Hail to the Redskins.

Sayers big game.

Immaculate Reception

Maz beats the Yankees

Beatles at Shea.

 

Dinner and cake and coffee at the home of Joseph and Mary to see what happened before bedtime.

 

I'd rather have seen the $100,000 infield, Jimmy Foxx, Home Run Baker, Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, and Lefty Grove at Shibe than anyone from the Phillies.

Would like to have gone to the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, League Park, Griffith Stadium and Braves Field, sitting in the Jury Box.