Yankee Stadium [I] (1923 - 1973)

[alpineinc]

Babe with "Little Ray" Kelly, Ruth's hand-picked mascot, probably about 4 years old here. Love his glove hitched to his belt.

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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006010981/

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/sp...-pal-dies.html

[Lpeters199]

Yankee Stadium and surrounding landmarks flat and in 3D.

[SultanOfWhat]

12 DIFFERENT COLOR 35 MM SLIDES OF YANKEE STADIUM 1968

http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-DIFFERENT...item25724a9e3c





Some oldies on ebay:

[Lpeters199]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yankee-Stadi...item3cc803c200

[SHOELESSJOE3]

Early plans for the new park, Yanks home.

[alpineinc]

Very interesting, Marble Hill, now that's uptown! And imagine a staggering 550 feet to center field!

Apparently owners Farrell and Co. ran out of money, and the idea was shelved during 1914, where "work on the new park was abandoned after the property had been filled in and graded." The scene shifted to the Bronx when Ruppert came on board, who "is known to have extensive real estate holdings in the Bronx, and it is believed that the establishment of a new baseball park in that county would open up a new field of patronage which has never before been seriously considered."

Complete article and other articles following the story below.

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The Bronx idea is now in the mix.

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A new year, and new owners - for the price of "$500,000, which is a record figure for a franchise which does not include a baseball park and a manager." LOL

But where to put the park? Maybe at 145th St and Lenox, with two parks in Harlem? Better hurry, Giants want you out by 1916, lol.

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With some investigative reporting, the NY Times found out it was indeed, going to be in the Bronx, in good old Clason Point. Clason Point?

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After that, the Yanks settled in for an extended stay at the Polo Grounds, until finally, in 1921, 161st Street it is, and the article that many of us have seen before.

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[SultanOfWhat]

Nice to see those pre-YS and early YS articles gathered in one post.

I still wish we knew more about the Yankees' investigation of 42nd Street in Manhattan as a possible location for YS. I came across that letter (forget if Ban Johnson was the sender or recipient) a while back (it's posted in one of the threads). The NY media noticed it a few months later. Not sure if any new information has arisen since then.


EDIT:

Here is the original post in this thread, with a good look at the letter (it was written by Huston to Johnson):

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showth...01#post1905901

Maybe there were architectural drawings of Yankee Stadium near the NYPL or Grand Central. Probably didn't get to that stage, though.


Here's the NY Post article about the letter.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...Co3TZTXP5a0JTO

[Lpeters199]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAX-PATKIN-C...8#ht_500wt_822

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yankee-Stadi...6#ht_899wt_689

[SultanOfWhat]

Checked Getty and found that they have a bunch of "new" photos of old YS added. If you save the photos and view them in Picasa, there are captions visible.

[SultanOfWhat]

Better versions of the 1936 WS photos posted earlier in this thread:





















Resuming Getty pics:

[SultanOfWhat]

[DiggerODell]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yankee-Stadi...item3cc803c200

Good photo Lpeters, however, almost more fascinating than Y.S. in this one are all the automobiles in the parking lot. Damn I miss when "rides" had style! I'd give my left (never mind) to have any one of these shown ;-)

[Lpeters199]

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?co..._id=mlb&ampv=3

[Lpeters199]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-195...item3a770a7f83

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandy-Koufax...item27c6acb7d9

[alpineinc]

Don Larsen with his WS MVP prize, a '56 Corvette, outside the Stadium.

[alpineinc]

Not OYS, but too cool to pass up.

L-R, Jackie Gleason, Toots Shor, Don Larsen & sports agent Frank Scott sharing a table at Shor's legendary restaurant, October '56.


Slightly larger

[Lpeters199]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msepIOYDTps

[alpineinc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msepIOYDTps

Slightly obstructed seats, lol. Great find.

[Chef Bill]

More good stuff about Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor's on page 35 of the Ebbets Field Thread....

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showth...49#post2022649

[alpineinc]

I still wish we knew more about the Yankees' investigation of 42nd Street in Manhattan as a possible location for YS. I came across that letter (forget if Ban Johnson was the sender or recipient) a while back (it's posted in one of the threads). The NY media noticed it a few months later. Not sure if any new information has arisen since then.


EDIT:

Here is the original post in this thread, with a good look at the letter (it was written by Huston to Johnson):

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showth...01#post1905901

Maybe there were architectural drawings of Yankee Stadium near the NYPL or Grand Central. Probably didn't get to that stage, though.


Here's the NY Post article about the letter.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...Co3TZTXP5a0JTO

Looks like 42nd St and 1st Ave was the location, a small blurb in the NYT about it. Apparently word got around about that site when they met up in Chicago (as in that letter I put up again below), but quickly quashed by Ruppert. Likely a site that Johnson was pushing and maybe the Yankee owners were not too keen on? Either way. apparently the feasibility study wasn't very favorable at all.

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Original letter again:

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Additional mention of Manhattan site(s) in October, but the locations largely dismissed by then, although the Times is now convinced the stadium will be in Queens, at the foot of the 59th Street Bridge. Feelin' Groovy! Alas, not to be.

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[SultanOfWhat]

Those are two great articles you found. Thanks for posting them. We can't be sure that Ruppert and Huston looked at 1st Avenue and 42nd, but that's the only description related to 42nd Street aside from the letter to Ban Johnson that I've seen. Nice to see some "new" info on the 42nd St. issue.


I found some items from 1913 about the Yankees plans to play in the Polo Grounds, and their reincorporation under a new name in that year:

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showth...61#post2038761

[Lpeters199]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-195...item3a77730364

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BILLY-MARTIN...item3f1a2267b4

[SultanOfWhat]

I'd love to see a decent scan of this image, depicting that September 9, 1928 double-header vs Philadelphia. It's from the NYT Mid-Week Pictorial. These issues were over-sized, so the original would provide a very nice view.




From same issue:

[The Monument]

Nice shot of the eagle medallions above the Stadium entrance. The NYS designers opted for the painted-over version. Guess the classic look wasn't in the budget {1.5 billion}

[Gary Dunaier]

Looks like 42nd St and 1st Ave was the location

Fascinating.

I don't know what the area was like in 1915, but by the next decade there were so many slaughterhouses and such that the designers of the Tudor City apartment buildings which overlooked the area designed the three buildings facing the East River in such a manner that the walls had few windows - just the hallways, I think.

If you visit 1st Avenue and 42nd Street today you'll immediately recognize it as the location of the headquarters of the United Nations.