Baseball has always been one of the most popular sports in the United States of America, and New York is one of the most important "centres" of these fascinating and vivid world, built around the passion of the fans and the hard work of players. Between 1947 - 1957 New York City experienced a real "golden age" for baseball, being unoficially the baseball capital of the nation, for no less than three major teams - Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants - had their headquarters here.
The Museum of the City of New York is trying to bring back the long passed days of glory through an exhibition with the title "The Glory Days : New York Baseball 1947 - 1957", a show which explores those years, how New York City gained such a place in the heart of fans and players, and how and why this "reign" came to an end in 1957. Also, baseball works as a medium of examinings, rediscovering and presenting the changes and evolutions in New York's city life, after the war.
The sheer number and diversity of the baseball memorabilia assembled for the show is astounding, ranging from art and amateur photographs to film footage, ephemera, uniforms, sport equipment, trophies, a great number of collectibles - very praised by fans - and many others. Curators have by all means gone to a great extent in order to provide the best, as the show is the most comprehensive examination of this episode in the history of American baseball.
photo : mcny.org
2007-10-15
