Lost artifacts of stadiums.

[compaq]

I got the idea after reading the Polo Grounds Thread. It was about a missing plaque.
http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=56604&page=41 Reply 1016
Any other tale like this.

[TinoM24]

well as has been talked about in the last month, someone recently found the pennants that used to hang on the frieze at YS in some storage room at the Stadium.

[Perseus71]

I had a thread going on about Ebbets Field Artifacts, but I didn't get much feedback.

A few interesting things:
1) There is a flagpole from Ebbets field standing outside a business in Brooklyn.
2) The lights from Ebbets Field were repurposed for Randall's Island Downing Stadium(Track & Field). The lights were removed in 2002 I believe...

Other than that, there's really not too much online about EF. I couldn't find anything on the scoreboard, which was rumored to be shipped to a minor league team.

My guess is most people who knew the whereabouts of certain objects either do not go on the Internet or they are dead.

[compaq]

I had a thread going on about Ebbets Field Artifacts, but I didn't get much feedback.

A few interesting things:
1) There is a flagpole from Ebbets field standing outside a business in Brooklyn.
2) The lights from Ebbets Field were repurposed for Randall's Island Downing Stadium(Track & Field). The lights were removed in 2002 I believe...

Other than that, there's really not too much online about EF. I couldn't find anything on the scoreboard, which was rumored to be shipped to a minor league team.

My guess is most people who knew the whereabouts of certain objects either do not go on the Internet or they are dead.

I'm sure they're rumors out there.

[Astros]

Here are some artifacts from the Astrodome.

They were on display at the 2004 All-Star FanFest in Houston.

The photos show the last home plate, original Astroturf, grounds crew space helmet, a section of the original scoreboard, upper deck home run seats (Jimmy Wynn and Doug Rader) and a huge oil painting of the Astrodome that used to hang in team owner Roy Hofheinz' office.

[The Monument]

In the mid-80's I worked with a guy who told me that a neighbor of his had worked on the Stadium renovation in the demolition phase. The neighbor had bought home a piece of the facade on the back of a truck. I don't know how big the piece was, but my co-worker described it as "huge". Don't know where it was kept, as the guys lived in Brooklyn and there wasn't much yard space or garage space. I lost touch with the guy almost twenty years ago, and a few years ago I'd heard that he'd died. He had a brother that also worked with us. I'm going to do a little detective work to see if I can track the brother down. If so, I'll verify the facade story. Then, I'll see if the neighbor is still around, contact him, and photograph this treasure of an artifact. It would fit perfectly in the Stadium Artifacts chapter of my Yankee Stadium book, but I'll share the info here. It's a long shot, but this thread has given me the motivation to do it.

[Kentucky Bomber]

I lived in Coney Island as a teenager and the American legion or VFW post a couple of blocks from my home had a flagpole in front of it with a plaque stating the pole was from the Polo Grounds. I'm pretty sure it was on the northern edge of Seaside Park. But it was a long time ago and the nieghborhood is very different now. If you're in the area look for it.