Flushing Meadow stadium groundbreaking ceremonies - October 28, 1961 address by Robert Moses.

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Robert Moses waxes poetic about baseball and sports language during the groundbreaking ceremony of Flushing Meadows stadium.


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