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Yankee Stadium, Going the Way of Joe DiMaggio
Yankee Stadium, Going the Way of Joe DiMaggio
It was 1948 when Paul Simon suddenly realized he was a Yankee fan. Sixty years later, he reminisces about his experiences at Yankee Stadium. >
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Death of a Stadium
Sportsfrog.com — ... half a century. The Stadium has been the safe room of my house of memories. From Henry Kissinger: Yankee Stadium was an important stage in my discovery of America. I came here as an immigrant in 1938. In the summer of 1939, I started working in a shaving brush factory. Some of my co-workers turned out to be of Italian origin, and they took me to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium. A seat in the bleachers in those days cost 55 cents. From Paul Simon : I was sitting on my father's lap listening to a Yankee game on ...

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