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Goodbye Yankee Stadium

 
           It has been 85 years and now we must say goodbye.  Watching the New York Yankees' final home game of the season—and of course the last game that will ever be played at Yankee Stadium—I couldn’t help but get chills.  While my memories of Yankee Stadium may not be as storied as others, they are my memories.  For my 16th birthday I asked my parents for one thing:  Take me to Yankee Stadium.  About five months after turning 16, I entered the house that Ruth built.  Mike Mussina was pitching, we sat on the third-base line, I took home a Yankees bandana as a souvenir, and the Yankees took home a loss.  Although my first game at Yankee Stadium ended in the loser column, I knew my first time there would not be my last.              In the summer of 2006 I interned for the YES Network.  After shooting a commercial with Yankee ... (link)

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