A lot of the structural stuff from Braves Field is still intact, as is the playing field. There are some high-rise dorms still overlooking the field, which was being used for soccer and field hockey when I was there. Would've been pretty cool to live there while the Braves were still playing there.

When I visited the site of Ebbets Field, now a slum tenement, there were tons of fliers around from bus companies offering discount fares for conjugal visits to Attica.

Forbes was by far the coolest; a line of brick runs across streets and sidewalks marking where the outfield wall once stood. (Part of the wall is still standing, too.) A plaque on the sidewalk marks where Mazeroski's homer cleared the fence, and home plate remains embedded where it's always been -- only now it's inside the ground floor of a U-Pitt building, covered with clear lucite.

And, off topic: The Counting Crows' cover of the song referenced in Jon's headline is actually pretty darn good.

I saw Forbes Field's home plate last year. I was told it was moved a bit from its original position so it wouldn't in a bathroom. Freshman orientation groups at Pitt (although they prefer Pittsburgh) were all told where it was and about the history of Forbes Field.

I don't know if there is a nicer new park in baseball than PNC Park. All it needs is a team better than the current Pirates playing in it.

Am I to assume that you are currently posting from your low horse?

He wanted to give O'Malley the current site of Shea Stadium instead.

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Greg B.

It is, as they say, the site of "commercial stores" now. The main one being Safeway, where we do our grocery shopping.

It also has Office Depot, Old Navy, Blockbuster, Togo's, Pete's Coffee, Radio Shack, Boston Market, Ross, and a couple other little stores. Your basic modern-day strip mall.

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Note: "Clearly Glazed"

I recall that just a few years ago construction crews excavated the remnants of the dugouts at the Gilmore Field site. Not sure if it was due to the Grove construction, or an expansion of the CBS TV facilities.

I used to work at CBS Studios, and it wasn't the Grove shopping mall that was built over old Gilmore Field, it was Television City. There is indeed a plaque near the audience waiting area for one of the studios (either studio 41 or 43) that pays tribute to Gilmore Field and the Hollywood Stars.

On one of the walls deep in the bowels of TVC, where the public can't see it, is a photo history of the less-famous Gilmore Stadium, which stood on the corner of Beverly and Fairfax, adjacent to Gilmore Field and Farmer's Market. From what I can remember, they used to hold drag races and exhibition football games there.