Yankee Stadium [I] Demolition

[GordonGecko]

[GordonGecko]

[atdy17]

Even as a Mets Fan some of those pics brought tears to my eyes. The staduim that help baseball grow. The stadium that even the birthplace of modern football, by hosting the "greatest game ever" for football. This demolition will be the darkest time for baseball.

[metsforever7515]

2nd to last picture shows the only place I sat at Yankee Stadium in my one game there. I feel like I missed a huge opportunity by not going there, even as a Mets fan.

[atdy17]

2nd to last picture shows the only place I sat at Yankee Stadium in my one game there. I feel like I missed a huge opportunity by not going there, even as a Mets fan.

I feel the same way. I never have been to Yankee Stadium. But their not a day go by which I don't regret my decision.

[scooterfan]

George Steinbrenner and his partners have done a good job putting a competitive product on the field for most of the past 37 years. And George did a great job entertaining us and the New York media making us read the back page everyday from 1973 to 2006. George deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because for 35 years he was the most famous/infamous man in baseball over that time. He was great for the game of baseball because his schtick generated interest and in the early 70s baseball was struggling. But the painful pictures of the destruction of Yankee Stadium will forever be his lasting legacy. It's tragically ironic that the guy who worked hardest to restore the tradition and the grandeur of the New York Yankees is the guy chiefly responsible for the destruction of the franchise's greatest advantage.

Even on its dying day Yankee Stadium still looks great.

[The Monument]

Good work Gary. As bad as it is looking at these pix, I don't feel as bad as I did in late '73 when I saw the photos of the roof and facade coming down.

John G

[yankees650B]

these images honestly almost make me question remaining a fan. i can't beleive their really tearing it done. what really drew me to the yankees from when i was in little league was the teams history and yankee stadium. i still am a huge fan of the team but i just don't know. it is still even now the most beutiful ballpark there ever was even renovated. yankee stadium was a very special place for me and my dad and now you'll never know it was ever there, it's a real shame.

[RationalNYYfan]

these images honestly almost make me question remaining a fan. i can't beleive their really tearing it done. what really drew me to the yankees from when i was in little league was the teams history and yankee stadium. i still am a huge fan of the team but i just don't know. it is still even now the most beutiful ballpark there ever was even renovated. yankee stadium was a very special place for me and my dad and now you'll never know it was ever there, it's a real shame.

Just because your neighbors moved doesn't mean they weren't good people.

[threeyoda]

these images honestly almost make me question remaining a fan. i can't beleive their really tearing it done. what really drew me to the yankees from when i was in little league was the teams history and yankee stadium. i still am a huge fan of the team but i just don't know. it is still even now the most beutiful ballpark there ever was even renovated. yankee stadium was a very special place for me and my dad and now you'll never know it was ever there, it's a real shame.

Your questioning your fandom over the demolition of the building they played in? Your unsure of your loyalty to the team you root for because of the destructoin of the previous structure they played a game in?
Of course they'res all the history and memories, and Yankee Stadium had a good life. It saw the ups and downs, the goods and the bads. But no baseball parks are meant to last forever. The colliseum was built to last forever, but places like Comiskey, Tiger, Fenway, Wrigley, and Yankee weren't built to last forever. Technology changed, and so does stadium architecture. First we had wooden, then jewel box, then multipurpose, to cookie cutter, and now it retro and modern. 85 years is a good run, and Yankee Stadium had a better life then parks like Ebbets and the Polo Grounds, which came to an untimely demise. I do get sad looking at these pictures, but I know that if it wasn't now, it would have been within the next 10 years, and that this ballpark had a better life and death then Ebbets or the Polo Grounds. As a Yankee fan, I'd rather have kids playing baseball on these hallowed grounds then a paved lot or apartments. Young Yankee fans and any future fans will create memories, history in the new place while they grow up in it, and hopelfully make the old Macombs Dam Park hallowed ground as well.

[scooterfan]

By that logic New York should raze the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings.

[ncyankeefan]

I agree, I am a Yankee fan forever no matter what. I loved Yankee Stadium, had wonderful memories there, I grew up there. For me, I am sad to see it go but I have made peace with it. I said my goodbyes last year and I'm looking forward to the new place...nothing lasts forever.

[threeyoda]

By that logic New York should raze the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings.

Those were built to last for years, much longer than baseball stadiums are built to last for. Skyscrapers and other office buildings are builtnto last. A baseball stadium is not meant to last forever.

[David Atkatz]

Those were built to last for years, much longer than baseball stadiums are built to last for. Skyscrapers and other office buildings are builtnto last. A baseball stadium is not meant to last forever.

Are you an architect? A civil engineer?

I thought not.

Your statement is abject nonsense.

Well-built buildings--skyscrapers, stadiums, schools, homes, monuments,... --will, with proper care, last many centuries.

Yankee Stadium's construction techniques and materials were no different than those of the Empire State, and their lifetimes are equivalent.

[The House That Ruth Built]

It's official, the seats that I sat in at my first ever game are gone. Field Championship Sec. 17, Box 67. RIP old friend.