Dad's trip to NY in 1959 need help from stadium seats and program guys

[marvymelvin]

Wow guys thanks for the information. David that is amazing that you were more than likely at that game. I am curious the style of seat that would have been in that section that my Dad would have sat in. Would it have been the wooden slat flat back blue seats, curved wood, curved plastic???

[Kawika]

Brad: I went to a lot of games in those days. Almost always sat in the dollar-fifty grandstand seats. Curved wood backs is what I remember. Don't recall the flat back seats. Definitely wouldn't have been plastic. Don't buy a seat on my say so however. There's bound to be a stadium seat expert around here that will know for sure.

[marvymelvin]

I recently received in the mail a 1959 Yankees program that was claimed to be from this exact game. Throughout the whole program there is no identifier of what game or team it is from. Once I reached the score card I could see the team "Orioles" listed as the opposing team but still no reference as to what game. The card was scored so I then checked online resources up against the score, hits, players etc and it was in fact scored for game 4, April 25th 1959. I then saw after closer inspection the date in very faded pencil. I would have been happy with a generic 1959 program but this is so cool to have a program given out and used at the exact game and even scored. Dad did not have a program amongst his things.

But I do have another question. If the score card was not present and written on how would I know what game it was from? Did the Yankees print the same program for the whole season, and just insert a score card with the visiting team? And what if the score card was intact but not scored? Is there any other printing anywhere that one can use to identify the game?

Maybe I should be posting this story of Dad and questions about the game, stadium seats, and programs in the memorabilia section. I chose here because most everyone seems to check in here.

[ZenPop]

I just wanted to pipe in to say thanks for posting!

This is such a cool story and find. You must be so jazzed to have discovered that! What a treasure and story!

[kkkkandp]

I think this is a layout from about that time frame...

[moeson]

The Yankees would update their programs several times during a season. The scorecard insert would usually show a couple of upcoming homestand match-up which assists in pinpointing the month of the particular game being scored. Also look for updated rosters (e.g. "as of"...)

[TCMA]

Thanks for sharing this .