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Tribute to Yankee Stadium...

Ken GuthrieKen Guthrie1,000+ posts
Hope some of you watched it.

I thought ESPN did an outstanding job with their broadcast.

Some of the highlights I took from last night...

- When they introduced passed players and/or family members of deceased Yankees, every one of them ran to their position. You could see even the elders felt obligated to attempt to jog to their positions. I thought that was awesome.

- If ARod doesn't believe Jeter owns the town by now, I don't know if he ever will. Jeter made a heart felt speach to the fans after the game from the mound which again showed what a class act he is.

- I didn't see any mention of Torre in their tribute. That was weird.

- If anyone has ever been to a game, there is no mistaken public address announcer Bob Sheppard's voice. He no longer is healthy enough to announce. I thought it was fitting that Jeter had him make a recording and will forever be announced by that recording of Bob Sheppard's voice. Anyone who has been to Yankee Stadium will remember this voice clearly.

- David Wells is in the same shape now as he was when he played. Loved when they showed him drinking a beer in the stands during the game with David Cone.

- How special is it that Thurman Munson's locker still sits empty in the Yankee's clubhouse?

- The most special moment of the whole broadcast was when the game was over and they did a piece with Yogi Berra and the past century at Yankee Stadium and New York. That gave me goose bumps. Is there a cooler man alive than Yogi Berra?

I feel honored to have experienced Yankee Stadium. Yeah, even a wannabe bullpen catcher got to experience what that place was all about. 99' lent the opportunity to even experience a playoff atmosphere there. I've walked the upper deck, took pictures in front of the memorials, and endured the wrath of the fans in right field during BP.

I guess like all good things, their time comes to go. Unfortunately at the expense of profit, Yankee Stadium will only offer memories from here out.

What a place, what memories, what an organization.

Yankee Stadium, glad I got to meet you.
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C catcher1,000+ posts
Went to NYC with Mrs Catcher in May of 1996. Mrs Catcher says lets go to a broadway show and I say OK, but we must also go to the Stadium. She picks one night and I get the other night for the Stadium....

While Im on Broadway watching "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" starring Matthew Broderick, Dwight Gooden is at the Stadium throwing a NO No...The next night, me and Mrs Catcher watch the Yankees get beat by the Mariners...nice

Get ya some of that...
A ACowboyFan100+ posts
Finally something Mr. Ken Guthrie and I can agree on.

Great tribute to a fine institution.

Unfortunately for me my first Yankee game was at Shea in 1975 but at least it was with my dad.

The next year when the first "new" Yankee Stadium opened we were there and the baseball thing took hold of me and I have been a fan of baseball and the Yankees ever since.

I have attended over 80 games at Yankee Stadium including 20+ Boston games. The history is so real while you are in the stadium. I was there for Dave Winfield’s first game and the game that Bo Jackson had 5 strikeouts. Thurman will always be a hero to me.

I have experienced the club house and the bleachers and it is all greatness.

Our family made one last trip to Yankee Stadium this summer on our vacation, my 5 and 7 yr olds to a game played there with there dad just like I did with mine.

My dad passed on the stores about Yankee Stadium and the Yankee greats to me and I have started the process of passing along my stores to my sons.

I remember one game where Ricky Henderson was having a bad day and as he was coming off the field from the outfield in between innings he starting walking in from about second base. The fans in our section started riding him hard. Ricky being Ricky started to jog a little might but also started mouthing off back to the fans. The Yankee fans know the game and want all the players to respect the game and the pinstripes.....Ricky did come up to bat that inning...and hit a homerun, he turned to section we were in and just jawed at us.

I will miss the old girl like I miss my dad but both will forever be vividly with me.

Thanks Ken for starting this great thread.
cheapseatscheapseats1,000+ posts
Cheapseats son and I also made a pilgrimage to NYC this summer to catch a Yankees game before the walls come down. It was very special to view the Monument Park in the outfield on our stadium tour....I understand they are moving it to the new ball park as well.

I'm glad we got to see the stadium....now we need to start making plans to catch a game in the new stadium across the street. Smile
A ACowboyFan100+ posts
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Originally posted by cheapseats:
Cheapseats son and I also made a pilgrimage to NYC this summer to catch a Yankees game before the walls come down. It was very special to view the Monument Park in the outfield on our stadium tour....I understand they are moving it to the new ball park as well.

I'm glad we got to see the stadium....now we need to start making plans to catch a game in the new stadium across the street. Smile


But will the ghosts cross the street as well??????
R reggie-3-77100+ posts
My first trip to The Stadium was in 1966 as an 8 year old. The Yanks were not very good, but I was going to see Mickey Mantle. It was a Sunday double header and when they announced the starting line up and Mickey was not starting. He did not play in either game. I was a disappointed little kid. I was lucky enough to see him play the next 2 years (67 and 68), he wasn't The Great Mickey Mantle any more, but it was still amazing to see my idol in person.

Over the next 30 years I went to well over 100 games, including the 1978 playoff game where George Brett hit 3 HR's off Catfish and Thurman Munson hit a 2 run homer off of Doug Bird in the bottom of the 8th to win it 6 to 5. In the early 80's we were at a Red Sox game where a Yankees fan reached on to the field and took Jim Rice's hat after he lost it due to a collision with Rick Burleson. Roger Clemens raced into the stands to get the hat back. I have never figured out what Roger (a Red Sox)was thinking going into the stands at Yankees Stadium after a hat!!

In 1996 we moved to Texas. The start of the last NY W/S run. Not great timing, but we did get to the Stadium 5 times in the last 13 years including the 2000 World Series with the Mets (The game Roger threw the bat at Piazza) and we got to watch a game from George Steinbrenner's box 3 years ago, that was also pretty cool. It is a special place!!

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