The Baker Bowl

[@PhiladelphiaBaseballHistory]

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[@gusjimmy2092]

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[@jaxxgianni1008]

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[@gusjimmy2092]

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[@gusjimmy2092]

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[@jaxxgianni1008]

@Gus Jimmy Glad I could help :)

[@williamford9564]

It is amazing to see that in that bandbox hitter's ballpark, Grover Cleveland Alexander won 30 games 3 years in a row from 1915-1917 and won 27 in 1914 with ERAs under 2 ( and 1.22 in 1915) in the 30 win seasons.

[@cdw3088]

So much history that I was completely unaware of. Thank you sir for your work.

[@AmishEcstasy]

I saw my first Phillies game in Connie Mack Stadium in 1967 or 68. The Phillies played the Chicago Cubs in a night game. I saw Ferguson Jenkins pitch, Ernie Banks at shortstop and Ron Santo. Chicago manager Leo Durocher got ejected in the 2nd or 3rd inning. Thanks for a wonderful and entertaining channel!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

When they tore down Tiger Stadium, the found over a thousand dollars in coins, some dated as far back as 1902.

[@joevanlear7566]

I found a picture of Ty Cobb! I can't wait to get it signed! 🙊

[@thebigchugger]

You nailed it, these places are holy ground. Just went to Google Maps to see what the Baker Bowl location looks like today and it's terribly sad.

[@pp3k3jamail]

Why is it sad tho, I'm not a Phillies fan but from everything that I've heard the baker bowl was a dump so why do you care about it so much. I heard that stadium was considered outdated even back in the 30s

[@cadaverdog1424]

My grandpa remembers taking a crap there in 1922!!!!! But he doesn’t remember the actual game at all?????!!!!!⚾️⚾️⚾️

[@JohnnyLaps]

Why can't people just say the neighborhood is black now and fucking dangerous.

[@TM-vq1bf]

You can still see the indent of baker bowl at broad and Lehigh / 15th and Huntington . I drove it last week

[@JohnnyLaps]

And get some damn good weed

[@richarddenny5340]

my all time favorite ballpark

[@Classicrocker6119]

I’m a baseball history nut residing in western Canada. This was an absolutely outstanding,fascinating and informative video. I really enjoyed learning about the Baker Bowl and the history of MLB in Philadelphia. And yes…I’ve already subscribed!!

[@robertheaps797]

Wow. Just discovered your video. Thank you very much!! Great video, I've been a Phillies fan 67 years now. When I was a kid in the late 50's early 60's while attending a Phillies game at Connie Mack Stadium, with my dad, I remember him telling me about the old Baker Bowl, where the Phillies use to play. I remember him telling me the Baker Bowl was a small place that was a mess. I never knew where it was located in Philly. Now I know! Thank you very much. .

[@cedricgist7614]

Baker Bowl. One of my favorite players has been Chuck Klein and I’m glad he made the Hall of Fame. Your video says it was 1980 - a pretty good year for Philadelphia. I thought Chuck Klein hit 300 home runs based on a book about sluggers I read decades ago. I try not to stress the long-ball so much, yet I know it’s been the measure of a slugger since Ruth. I’d heard that Baker Bowl had a short right field - but I’d never seen the layout until recently. It was a different game back then and Klein was a complete hitter as best I can tell. So, I’m sorry the friendly dimensions postponed his election to the Hall. I know Chuck Klein was a Philadelphia treasure - and a reason to cheer during some lean years. Thank you for your video!

[@davidswift7776]

Interesting insight and some rare pictures of the old park. I didn’t realize it’s proximity to Connie Mack, simply fascinating! Thank you for the KZbin post 👌

[@eronavbj]

When I was a Philly cop back in the late 60s, I patrolled that area. Connie Mack Stadium was 5 blocks up the street, and the former Baker Bowl site was a drive-through car wash in a high crime area. After baseball, that site was a racetrack.

[@pjdolont9012]

New subscriber here, this is an underrated channel.... Great information about a great baseball town... Fun stuff.

[@sixersfan21]

Great video!! Thank you for putting this together!!

[@magpie1869]

A pitcher was doing poorly in a game at the Baker Bowl and the manager walked to the mound to remove him. The pitcher angrily fired the ball off the high tin right field wall. The right fielder had his head down, heard the sound of the ball hitting the tin and swiftly ran to the ball and fired a strike to 2nd base. ---- I heard this many years ago from a baseball historian on a sports radio program.

[@michaelward9880]

The right fielder was Hack Wilson of the Cubs. It is said he was a little hungover that day and wasn't paying too much attention. He reacted instinctively to the sound of the ball hitting the metal plate wall.

[@TheBatugan77]

@@michaelward9880 Correct. Hack hit whiskey better than baseballs!

[@michaelward9880]

@@TheBatugan77 I think he was a great hitter until the booze got the best of him. It's another "if only he didn't drink so much" stories. He did hold the NL record for HR's in a season until the steroid monsters took the field.

[@markhenry1239]

As a born and raised Pittsburgher, I've never been a fan of any Philadelphia teams (old NL East rivalries and such) 😆. I do, in fact though LOVE baseball. It's constant markings of the eras and the passing of time are incredible! I absolutely love watching presentations of baseball history like this. Although so many of the newer ballparks keep attempting to incorporate items and replications of the past, it really never seems to work unfortunately. 😥 I wish I could've seen a game at Forbes Field, but my first game attendances were at Three Rivers Stadium. I've been to the old Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, have attended a game at Coors Field and Camden Yards. I've seen Old Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, and Wrigley Field. There's definitely something to be said for the old parks. IMHO new parks should be like those with the only alterations being newer technologies and facilities.

[@kevinmiller6380]

Imagine how many career home runs Babe Ruth would have wound up with had he played at the Baker Bowl?

[@jacksmith5692]

Playing in Yankee Stadium with the 295 foot right field line and 350 to right field wasn't bad. In my day, it was 296 down the line and 344 to right field out to 407 in right center.

[@eronavbj]

Aside from the short (less than 300 feet) right field in Yankee Stadium, the fence was about 3 feet high and not the towering height of Baker Bowl’s right field barrier. These features may have just as likely affected Ruth's numbers negatively.

[@jacksmith5692]

@@eronavbj It was 296 right down the foul line. It immediately jutted out to 344 and then it zoomed out to 407 in right/center that was massive and kept going to 461 in center field. Ruth was not known to be a dead pull hitter. He actually hit 367 homers on the road and 347 homers at home. Ruth hit 259 homers in Yankee Stadium of his 714 homers! So much for his Yankee Stadium advantage!

[@TheBatugan77]

@@jacksmith5692 Correct. In Ruth's day the fences were even deeper. 495-505 to center. 470 to left-center, 400+ to straight away left.

[@df5295]

Ruth said he liked hitting in the Polo Grounds better than Yankee Stadium.

[@jacksmith5692]

Chuck Klein is in the HOF thanks to this joint and pitching in this joint made Grover Cleveland Alexander even greater!

[@cortjampole9391]

Cool

[@joevanlear7566]

I found a picture of Ty Cobb! I can't wait to get it signed! 🙊

[@TheBatugan77]

Yes.

[@robertadams5107]

Yes good video I've been a fan of fillies for a long time along with my hometown team the Baltimore Orioles and I appreciate stories about the old ballpark

[@PhiladelphiaBaseballHistory]

Thank you.

[@mikeyoung9810]

I love baseball history, especially it's stadiums of the past, so this was a very enjoyable video. Thanks. But it seems like many grandstands throughout history have been consumed by fire. And in Centennial parks case the team wasn't there. Was it being used for another function when the fire broke out?

[@gmoneys818]

What’s really crazy,,is the flatiron type building in the outfield..,Is still there

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

I'm 55 and whenever I hear "Baker Bowl" I think of Bill Campbell spitting all over the microphone!!

[@notvalidcharacters]

I'm 70 and I remember Bill Campbell but don't remember spitting on the mic. Probably the best play-by-play voice ever, certainly the most dramatic.

[@andrewcaldwell4478]

does anyone know of original baker bowl seats?

[@ChiSoxEdits]

What an interesting field, they don’t make them like this anymore.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

The famous graffiti on the Lifebuoy ad appeared in 1935.

[@mordechaibenpesach1855]

What could possibly be inappropriate for kids in this video?

[@scottdeluca2929]

I would love to find out if there are any 19th century ball parks that are still existing?!!

[@TheBatugan77]

Yes and no.

[@TheBatugan77]

A RF wall even I could've reached.

[@mightya]

Since when is 21st street 3 blocks away from 15th street?

[@davmil23]

Correction....Foxx and Klein are not the only MVP's both a cities team in the same year. Ernie Banks of the Cubs and Nellie Fox of the White Sox were MVP's in the 1959.

[@trapezemusic]

What is on the site today?

[@TheBatugan77]

Correct.

[@trapezemusic]

@@TheBatugan77 How does "Correct" answer my question?

[@TheBatugan77]

​@@trapezemusic👈🤓 Right you are!

[@scissors656]

why was babe ruth's braves jersey spelled BAVES ?

[@notvalidcharacters]

Haha, you think like me. My thing is the dogged attachment of the definite article-- "The" Baker Bowl, rather than simply "Baker Bowl".

[@harlow743]

He was a member of the Boson Baves

[@garymorris1856]

This is great to watch, but why the warning and disclaimer about children watching this ? What is wrong about it ?

[@TheBatugan77]

Phillies W-L records in the 1930s were obscene.

[@oldesalt10310]

I wonder what happened to the soap sign….

[@fishbone3333]

Chuck Klein made the Hall of Fame thanks to that 280 foot right field wall. Over a five-year span from 1929 to 1933 here were Klein's combined stats at home, converted to a season's worth of games. (So in other words, if he played all games at the Baker Bowl between 1929 and 1933, this would have been his average season: Batting average: 0.424 Slugging average: 0.772 On Base + Slugging: 1.28 Hits: 264 Doubles: 54 Home Runs: 49 Runs scored: 156 RBI's: 176

[@TheBatugan77]

One year I believe he had 44 assists. If they'd cut that total in half, he'd have led the NL TWICE.

[@mmmmbopf_u8306]

Darby had a Negro League team? Probably the best thing to ever come out of Darby. Fun facts!

[@allenmurray7893]

Sorry, but I just can't handle the narration. However, i love the pics.

[@TheBatugan77]

How many home runs would the Babe have hit at Baker Bowl? Sophisticated algorithms, parameters, sabermetrics and quadratic equations give us the answer! A shitload.

[@dennisholiday1868]

But he never hit a home run there! Baker Bowl will always have that record that it is the only major league ball park that Babe Ruth played and didn't hit one.

[@TheBatugan77]

@@dennisholiday1868 Correct. And Ruth's Red Sox played the Phillies in the 1915 Series. Ruth did not pitch despite going 18-8 that year.

[@dennisholiday1868]

@@TheBatugan77 He did had another chance to do it when he was with The Boston Braves in his year as a player. After his last game at Baker Bowl he took it out on The Pittsburgh Pirates!

[@bemore1134]

@@dennisholiday1868 Actually his last game at Baker was his last game, period. His 3 homer game at Pittsburgh was like 5-6 days before that.

[@TheBatugan77]

​@@dennisholiday1868 Hey dennis. Looks like you got figuratively pantsed by bemore, who decided to play a historical 'Mr. Helper'. Thoughts?

[@Rebel-eq7ul]

Shibe

[@roncaruso931]

Todays ballparks have no character. They are all the same.

[@ChristopherHagee]

Phils moved outta Phila., Penna.'s former Baker Bowl during 1938 aeason/started playing their home games in former, what was then called Shibe Park (later known as Connie Mack Stadium 🏟) sharing that ballpark w/then-Amer. League Phila. Athletics as venue's 2 main co-tenants