NEVER THE SAME | Before the Giants' final game at the Polo Grounds, Bobby Thomson pointed to the spot where his famous home run landed. The last person out of the park that sad September afternoon was John McGraw's widow. "I still can't believe it," she said of the team's move to San Francisco. "This would have broken John's heart. New York will never be the same." A new National League franchise, the Mets, would move into the Polo Grounds in 1962, managed by none other than former Giant Casey Stengel. The Polo Grounds were demolished in 1964, Despite the Mets' eventual success and citywide popularity, thousands of old-timers who remember the days of Mathewson, Terry, Thomson, and Mays still agree with Mrs. McGraw's verdict: New York without its Giants has never been quite the same.

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