Thu. 06/04/09 07:29 AM
I remember back to my first ballgame at The Corner in 1977 when I was 10 years old. I can still look at the stadium grounds and see all the people lining the streets along with the venders selling banners, caps and whatnot. I remember the games with Rusty Staub, Mark Fydrich and watching the antics of the grounds keepers when the rain would come in. The old ballpark that began as navin field and went through so many changes over the many years it stood, deserves more than the wrecking ball. It is an historic landmark and needs to be remembered, not wiped from the face of the earth and forgotten. As the video on this site says, it was indeed like Grampa's house and Ernie Harwell was Grampa to all of us fans. The city needs to rethink this and realize it is making a mistake before it is too late.
