Baseball fans are drawn to NYC housing project built over fabled sports palace the Polo Grounds

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The ghost of the Polo Grounds still haunts old-time baseball fans today. 

The sprawling New York City sports arena occupied a nook of Manhattan along the Harlem River called Coogan’s Hollow.

It still occupies a giant part of baseball lore. 

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The footprint of the Polo Grounds, now a housing project, has become a pilgrimage site for baseball fans searching for the glory days of the game.

"Baseball began in New York City and it gave the sport a populist place to start and to grow and to spread around the rest of the country," baseball historian Eric Miklich of New York told Fox News Digital. 

Babe Ruth, left, and Ty Cobb, two of the American League's heaviest hitters, stand together during pregame exercises at the Polo Grounds. (Getty Images)

"The Polo Grounds was absolutely central to the sport's growth."

The New York Giants called the vast arena home from 1891 until they left for San Francisco after the 1957 season.

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"The Giants won the pennant! The Giants won the pennant!" — one of the most memorable calls in sports history — with Bobby Thomson's home run at the Polo Grounds in 1951. 

Wilie Mays made his miraculous over-the-shoulder catch near the "483 feet" marker of centerfield at the Polo Grounds in the 1954 World Series. 

Aerial of the Polo Grounds taken during the second playoff game between the New York Giants and