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Hard to believe this is actually being done. Oh well, the new stadium will be bigger and swankier, and only for the rich.
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Are they keepimg anything of Yanlee Stadium at all as a memory of the 88 yeras of baseball that was played there? I know a wall from Forbes Field in Pittsbugh still stands and the Pirate fans have...
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The hard part is watching them tear it down. Its a long painful process. When Comiskey Park (White Sox Park) closed in 1991 I worked downtown and rode the train. The train passed by the park and twice...
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I went to my first game at Yankee Stadium in 1963. Yogi Berra was in left field, playing out the string and Mantle hit a homer. There would be other trips back including Mickey Mantle's last game- I...
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I think it's insane to tear down The House That Ruth Built, with all its magic and spirit and history. Since I'm NOT a fan of the Yankees it's actually preferable and A-okay with me; but if I were a...
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MikeTheMook wrote: Hard to believe this is actually being done. Oh well, the new stadium will be bigger and swankier, and only for the rich. Like so many things these days.
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Butcher Benton wrote: I went to my first game at Yankee Stadium in 1963. Yogi Berra was in left field, playing out the string and Mantle hit a homer. Funny, they made Yogi an outfielder early in 1961,...
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I am not a Yankees fan ,Living here in Kansas City most of my life , we hate the Yankees. But it is very sad to see this happening. I can still remember The playoff game between the Royals and the...
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And Steinbrenner fired Dick Howser despite the fact that the Yanks had the best regular season record that year since 1927! It was the House Ruth built and lied in state in:
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The Sinatra song from the 1975 LP is certainly appropriate. I went to just one game there, and was JUST too late to get into the monument park, dammit. At least, if nothing else, in the 1974...
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I remember the Tony Horton thing....and then he left baseball after having a nervous breakdown...my first time up there was around 65 when the Yankees were starting their slide. The beginning of the...
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