Yankee Stadium Fire Sale

DaveKingman posted 7/24/2008 from www.dugoutcentral.com [flag]

Writer Harvey Frommer looks at what happened the last time the Yankees played their last game at (the old) Yankee Stadium and how the place was ravaged by souvenir-hungry fans. [link]

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Top O' The Order: DON'T buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack
Published 7/24/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... 3. A fan who was in attendance at the last game of Yankee Stadium I in 1973: "By the sixth inning of that last game, all you heard was hammers ... People had come not only to see the last game but to take pieces of the Stadium, and they were tearing it apart. Back then, they didn’t have that much security.” [Dugout Central] ...

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