From The New York Times:
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
Published: January 22, 2011
Warren Bellefond, a 72-year-old retired postal worker from Washington Heights, held up a clear plastic cube with a dirty, brown, smudged baseball in it, and described to Willie Mays how Mays hit the ball to him during batting practice on Sept.29,1957, the last game the Giants ever played at the old Polo Grounds.
The Giants, Bellefond’s favorite team, were about to leave New York and a small legion of fans who never severed their loyalty the way bitter Brooklynites did with the Dodgers, although they, too, felt rejected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/sports/baseball/23giants.html?_r=1&ref=sports
Also see:
Mays, at Home in Harlem, Connects With Its Children
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/sports/baseball/22rhoden.html?ref=baseball
Polo Grounds, and Its Former Tenants, Emerge From the Shadows
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/sports/20polo.html?ref=baseball
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