Published 11/8/2008
at Yahoo! Sports - MLB News
With the help of a few legendary players and Bronx teenagers, the New York Yankees carried pailfuls of dirt taken from home plate and the pitchers' mound at their old home to a new one Saturday. Under a steady rain, 15-year-old Gabriel Nieves shoveled about 5 pounds of dirt from Yankee Stadium's home plate into a blue and white pail, while his mother, Audrey, watched with tears streaming down her...
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