Yankee Stadium [I] (1923 - 1973)

[JohnCropp]

Not sure if these have been posted yet, but a lot of nice interiors I have never seen before:

https://picasaweb.google.com/mrgerry...Stadium101973#

Those are great pictures!

[Chevy114]

Those are great pictures!

Yeah this is one stadium where the white wash effect actually worked!

[Gehrig27]

Absolutely fantastic set!

Would I be correct in assuming this is under the bleachers?

[jsontag]

Love the Earl Combs picture. Thanks so much for sharing. Earl Combs, in my opinion, is an under-appreciated Yankees great

[alpineinc]

Not sure if these have been posted yet, but a lot of nice interiors I have never seen before:

https://picasaweb.google.com/mrgerry...Stadium101973#

WOW, what a set, final game at OYS! Has to be one of the best albums that exist from the final days of the old stadium. A real stunner, what a find!!!

Couple of my faves -

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Cool tip with the Picasa web albums - the default view is smaller than the actual photo size (at 640 or 720 pixels across or so), but if you right-click and get the actual photo URL (right-click -> Properties on PC, right-click -> Copy Image Address on Mac), you can change the "S" number in the URL to the largest size available (1600 in the case of this album) to see the photos in their full size glory (S640 or S720 in the URL to S1600).

[Paul W]

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the walkways to the upper deck vomitories were there to the end.
great set, i shoulda taken more pix that day.

[Paul W]

pithy message, 4/29/59 before the siding was added to the back.
doubleheaders too!

[Paul W]

11/50, caption sez the grounds keeper is setting up a trap for a fox prowling the grounds.
sounds more like an 4/1 gag...

[The Monument]

Those are some great pix from Sept 30 & Oct 1 '73. Forty years later and buried treasures are still surfacing. Not sure if that one pic is under the bleachers, might be under the Field Level seats.

[Paul W]

Those are some great pix from Sept 30 & Oct 1 '73. Forty years later and buried treasures are still surfacing. Not sure if that one pic is under the bleachers, might be under the Field Level seats.

is/are bleachers.
the fact that there's direct sunlight coming through the exits sinches it.
only a small part of the lf grandstand faced towards the sun.

[The Monument]

is/are bleachers.
the fact that there's direct sunlight coming through the exits sinches it.
only a small part of the lf grandstand faced towards the sun.

Good point.

[SultanOfWhat]

This is a still frame from a video. It appears to be from 1956-early 1960s. Can anyone explain the multicolored upper wall over to the right?





[EDIT: maybe a hint of the same effect in this 1964 image]

[Paul W]

sport mag. '55 series mvp's newk & pee wee outside the stadium.
pix not dated.
from the sun angle, this couldn't be after the last game - could it?
looks like late a.m. in early fall.
would they shlep all the way up there the next day?

[Paul W]

teddy b. and everybody's watching, from the looks of the field it's a shame that they didn't have fieldturf then!

[Paul W]

usually it was the "gooney bird" who looked sleepy in daylight hours, casey looks like a mannequin...

[Paul W]

mickey relaxing. considering another profession?
btw - ever wonder where the line "...come out strong when the bell rings?"

[Paul W]

mikey doing the dough boy wrap in the locker of honor, painted in "topping money green"...

[Paul W]

hey mick!
lookin' good?

[number3]

Had reason to go digging on this . . . Appears, if this were a Ladies Day at YS, it would have been Saturday August 6, 1949. News report says: "Six home runs, topped off by ninth-inning circuit clouts by Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio, enabled the New York Yankees to overcome a five-run deficit and beat the St. Louis Browns, 9 to 8, yesterday before a frenzied Ladies Day crowd of 19,935." Total crowd most likely was significantly higher than 19,935, since ladies, admitted for free or for a significant discount, were not counted in official attendance figures. Papers sometimes would give separate numbers for "paid" attendance and for the number of ladies attending. Official attendance never included those admitted for free or steep discounts, since a visiting team's share of ticket sales were based only on those who paid full price to see the game. Crowd size in photos seem like it would have been a large crowd for Yankee Stadium, what with bleachers jammed. Note, of course, that the Yanks chose a game against the hapless Browns for this Ladies Day promotion; this was typical for many teams, pumping up attendance against weaker opponents. The more enlightened, like Bill Veeck in Cleveland, would schedule Ladies Days on Saturdays, too, but against strong opponents. On Saturday June 11 (1949), for example, the Indians hosted the Yankees and drew 30,215 ladies to Municipal Stadium, in addition to the 31,308 who paid their way into the stadium.

[The Monument]

number3 I'm not sure what you're referring to.

[lollar]

Love the Earl Combs picture. Thanks so much for sharing. Earl Combs, in my opinion, is an under-appreciated Yankees great

Did I miss Earl Combs in those pictures? Where was he?

[jsontag]

It is in this thread somewhere, can't remember what pagem but it is a sweet photo.

[SultanOfWhat]

HYEE is back!