You - my friend - have too much time on your hands.
Get a hobby.
The name will come to me sometime. It is on the tip of my tongue.
Guessing...
Nathan’s?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/opinion/15kriegel.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
There was a billboard at the Polo Grounds(during the Mets time there) advertising Hebrew National hotdogs.
I doubt that any tasty foods from our childhood . . . 50’s and 60’s, are still available. Sure, the brand name still exists, but chemicals and additives have changed it so that it is no longer the same.
I noticed that around the 70’s or so, the slogan “New and Improved” actually meant “Changed and Cheapened”.
Yankee Dogs
It would almost certainly be either Nathan’s or Hebrew National.
I didnt read down through the whole thing, but according to this Harry M. Stevens provided the Ebetts Field dogs.
http://www.baseball-fever.com/archive/index.php/t-46196.html
The best hot dogs ever, from my earlier days, were Schickhaus, made in New Jersey like many yummy things:
Wenning Foods, supply Schickhaus dogs to Max’s in Long Branch, NJ
732-222-3085, they will ship 40 dog box 10lbs
I can’t help you with New York, but at Dodger Stadium, the hot dogs were first provided by John Morrell & Company, which had a meat packing facility in Los Angeles, and later by Clougherty Packing, whose products were sold under the brand name Farmer John. I believe their facility was in Vernon or thereabouts. This company later merged with Hormel, which still uses the Farmer John brand name and still makes the Dodger Dogs you can get at Dodger Stadium.
Harry M. Stevens
what kind of dogs?
Good ones.
There is something yummy about a hot dog that has been stewing in hot water for hours
I don’t know about the two ballparks that you mention, but I remember getting David Berg brand hotdogs at Wrigley field in Chicago during the 60’s and they were outstanding. Plump, juicy, thick-skinned.. You almost had to bite all the way down before the skin broke and the flavor exploded in your mouth. Yummy!
No on the hot dog thing but guessing Nathans. But I am fortunate to have seen Willie Mays at the Polo Grounds and Duke Snyder up close at Ebbets Field. My dad grew up in NYC.
."...I know the difference between Yankee's hot dogs and the ones over at the mets. You get to eat Yankee dogs in October"
Sabrett’s
Just had some Hebrew National dogs on the grill yesterday - delicious? Nothing like an all beef hot dog. The Costco ones are good too but they are HUGE.
Not sure but former Dodgers/Giants mamager Leo Durocher, with backing from the mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Sinatra, and Joe D. controlled all concessions at both the Polo Grounds and Ebbets......