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There Used To Be A Ballpark / A Tribute To Yankee Stadium With Frank Sinatra
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Bronx Banter: Penultimate
Baseball Toaster —
It was a near perfect afternoon in the Bronx yesterday as the Yankees and Orioles played the final day game at Yankee Stadium. Amid sharp shadows and under a cloudless sky, the Stadium gleamed, the cool early autumn air adding a crispness to the day. The Yankees and Orioles played scoreless baseball for eight-plus innings, but the lack of action on the field mattered little as most everyone on hand and watching at home was more concerned about drinking in the doomed ballpark, which has rarely looked more welcoming or more vibrant. Afredo Aceves got things started off in style in the first inning. Following a Brian Roberts lead-off double, Adam Jones popped up a ...
Tribute To Yankee Stadium (Videos)
Hip 2 Da Game —
If you have never gotten a chance to visit Yankee Stadium, well, you never will. Today is the final game to ever be played at Yankee Stadium and you can count me as one of the people lucky enough to have watched a game there. Make no mistake about it though, Yankee Stadium is not just about the Yankees. Sure, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Derek Jeter and countless other Yankee greats have called Yankee Stadium home, but there have also been great moments in Yankee Stadium from the NFL, College Football, and Boxing. You can check out a timeline of all the great sporting events on the ESPN Yankee Stadium ...
Yankee Stadium Tribute Video - Last Game
Knuckle Curve —
The last game has been played at Yankee Stadium. The stadium, which opened in the early 1920s, will likely go down in history as the most famous baseball stadium ever.
With over 80 years of memories tied to Yankee Stadium, it is hard to include everything — however the video of the Yankee Stadium tribute at the end of this entry does of very good job.
In the last game every played in the stadium, the Yankees fittingly won the game. Their 7-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles kept their very slime playoff chances alive but more importantly, it ended the Yankee Stadium era on a high note.
Here is the tribute video for Yankee ...
There Used To Be A Ballpark
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IRON HORSE SAYS GOODBYE —
NY Post: Sports 9/21/2008
The Post concludes its look at the 25 most memorable moments in Yankee Stadium history. Next week, Shea's No. 1 moment: July 4, 1939 Out of the thousands of games and events held at Yankee Stadium, it is a speech that stands atop the list as the...
FORMER VENDOR BURBRIDGE —
NY Post: Sports 9/21/2008
YANKEE Stadium is all about the memories. No one around has more memories of this place than Bill Burbridge. Burbridge, 73, started as a vendor in 1949 and still works at the Stadium as a management assistant and will be here tonight when the Final...
ONE LAST TIME FOR PETTITTE —
NY Post: Sports 9/21/2008
Andy Pettitte has been a pressure performer, but he'll toe the rubber in tonight's final game at Yankee Stadium pitching not for a pennant or a playoff spot, but for history and his place in the pantheon of pinstriped lore. "So much has been done...
LAST CALL —
NY Post: Sports 9/21/2008
* Even as a die-hard Mets fan, its going to feel like a wake after that last game at Yankee Stadium tonight. The memories, oh, there are plenty: From Chris Chambliss' home run in 1976 to get the Yankees into the World Series, to Reggie Jackson's...
BILLY THE KID —
NY Post: Sports 9/21/2008
WHEN the final game at Yankee Stadium ends tonight, there surely will be players, coaches and team personnel grabbing a handful of dirt from the field as a memento. Too bad Billy Martin isn't around to give that dirt one last kick. The fiery Yankees...
