The Metro-dome is horrible. Baseball should never be played in a football stadium. Try sitting down either foul line and watching a whole game. You need neck surgery by the time the 7th inning rolls around.
2007-04-14 11:42:14
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answered by Brian B 2
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Yes, Candlestick cost him allot of HRs. Before the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958, they played in the Polo Grounds where Willie hit well. Maybe Candlestick cost him HRs, but the numbers are basically the same. He hit 50+ HRs twice, 1955 in NY and 1965 in SF. One other factor, is that Willie missed most of the 1952 season and all of 1953 because he served in the military during the Korean War. This may have cost him 80 HRs, tack that on to the 660 he has, and theres 740. So he would have actually broken the Babe's record, maybe 3-4 years before Aaron, and would have probably never been traded to the Mets in 1972. When Willie Mays came back to NY with the Mets in 1972, I once heard him say in an interview that the team lost something psychologically when they moved to SF, and maybe that cost him some HRs playing in Seals Park. In that same interview, I heard him say that the winds in Shea Stadium were worse than Candlestick. The Polo Grounds was a big ballpark and there were no cheap HRs there. I was there as a small kid and to a 6 year old it was gigantic. Willie Mays looked at Candlestick as his "home" ballpark, and never used the winds and the cold as any kind of an excuse, like allot of other guys who played there did. I often wondered what NY baseball would have been like had either the Giants or Dodgers stayed when the other left. Of course, there would be no Mets, but often wondered what it would be like today, and how many championships they would have won, and where they'd be playing now.
2016-05-20 00:38:56
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answered by ? 3
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