You Can’t Just Blow Up History

Respect Jeter's Gangster found this 3/30/2008 on www.nytimes.com [flag]

The demolitions of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium will not resemble those of Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds in two significant ways: No wrecking balls and no explosive charges. [link]

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Old Yankee Stadium
Published 3/30/2008 by Roberto Alejandro at Respect Jeter's Gangster
The New York Times has three great articles dealing with Yankee Stadium. (1, 2, 3). They make for good, if not nostalgic reading. It will be odd to think that this is the last year I will be able to go to Yankee Stadium. The first time I went was when my family was living in Princeton, New Jersey. We traveled to those hallowed grounds because my grandfather, a life-long Yankees fan (and the reason both my brother and I adore this team) was visiting from Puerto Rico. Yankee Stadium holds a lot of special memories, and meaning, for a lot of ...

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Lobby of Numbers: Los Angeles (and Brooklyn!) Dodgers

Rover found this 4/2/2008 on www.battersbox.ca

Do you realize that the Dodgers have played moreseasons in Dodger Stadium than they played in EbbetsField? They've played and won more games in Dodger Stadium than they did at the old yard in Flatbush. They did have a better home winning percentage in Brooklyn (.576) than they have in California (.571). Ebbets Field was a quirky park, and the home team did seem to have a distinct advantage. ...

This Day in Baseball History: April 5th

Posted 4/5/2008 on SOX1FAN

In 1913, the Dodgers play their first game in Ebbets Field in front of 25,000 fans. Brooklyn beat the New York Yankees, 3-2, in an exhibition game… Casey Stengel hit the park’s first home run (an inside-the-park HR). In 1925, Babe Ruth collapsed at railroad station in Asheville, North Carolina, and would later be hospitalized in New York. He would undergo an operation for an ulcer on April ...