Comments on: Must-click link: some awesome old pics of Yankee Stadium

By: stuffnobodycaresaboutdotcom

stuffnobodycaresaboutdotcom — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:30:04 +0000

Thanks Craig for featuring my web site. I hope your readers will peruse and enjoy the other baseball articles that are featured there as well. – regards, B.P.

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:27:17 +0000

Looking at the photos of the stadium before it opened, I had two thoughts: 1-they built it out in the sticks in 1923, and 2-they missed out big time by not buying more land and holding onto it.

I’m surprised people didn’t know the monuments were in play. I remember watching on TV in 1963, when Yogi had his last inside the park homer at Yankee Stadium, hitting a rope over the Red Sox center fielder into the monuments, with Yastrzemski finally digging it out too late to get Yogi at the plate.

By: makeham98

makeham98 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:34:09 +0000

My first games were at the “old old” Yankee Stadium and the newer parks have never matched it. From the poles to the wooden seats, the roof, the massive outfield. Watching grafitti covered trains pass behind the outfield. Datsun was the official car, and before a doubleheader we enjoyed watching Joe LaHoud of the Brewers hit a ball into the bullpen, breaking the side view mirror off of the car (which they drove the relievers down to the field in before those stupid baseball cap golf carts). Hopefully they are more durable now.

By: deafrecon

deafrecon — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:32:50 +0000

this song started playing in my head as i viewed those photos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rOBSeuZfzo

By: thatyankeedude

thatyankeedude — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:49:40 +0000

That’s awesome!

By: stackers1

stackers1 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:49:31 +0000

I was at the old, pre-renovated stadium as a kid – the 1976 to 2008 stadium a thousand times and now the new stadium several times. The old versions were great, and my memories will never fade if I live to be 100. But the new stadium is certainly not a “mall” as the writer described it.

I’m going to the Yankees-Blue Jays game Thursday with my brother. We park in Fort Lee & take a gypsy van over the bridge. Then the subway down to the stadium and to our $15.00 seats in the left field bleachers. Sure, I’ll pay $22.00 for a sausage sandwich & a coke, but I still get a thrill out of going to Yankee Stadium.

The thing about New York is, they never mind change. Grand Central Station, Madison Square Garden, Penn Station – if it gets old and out dated, tear it down & build a new one.

By: Tim OShenko

Tim OShenko — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:47:47 +0000

Three things I was surprised to learn:
1) There was a friggin’ flag pole in the field of play.
2) Datsun is “the official Yankee car.”
3) A homer to left-center in old Yankee Stadium would have to travel about 9 times as far as a homer to right in the current stadium.

By: protectthishouse54

protectthishouse54 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:36:22 +0000

Very cool photos. I always heard about the monuments being in play, but this provides some great shots that actually show it. I think it would be cool to bring back those half circle flags that hang from the upper deck…give the new stadium some old school flair.

By: natslady

natslady — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:30:25 +0000

That was great, Craig. Thanks!