A family’s pilgrimage to see Yankee Stadium one last time
Stories like this are everywhere; people coming from all over the country to see the House that Ruth Built one last time before it’s ripped down. And further evidence that people will still come and visit Yankee Stadium for years to come provided that it is not destroyed following the 2008 baseball season. Here’s a link to one Florida family’s story and an exerpt below:
“Yes, I drew a deep breath, this would be one special night. The Yankees. The Red Sox. And Yankee Stadium, baseball’s coliseum-cum-cathedral, in its final, glorious season — standing much like it did on its first Opening Day, April 18, 1923, when a player named George Herman Ruth slammed the game’s only home run, a three-run shot off a 2-2 pitch by Red Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke. (For those keeping score, the Yankees won 4-1.)
It was the prospect of my two baseball-blooded boys never seeing the 85-year-old stadium that prompted our family to make a New York pilgrimage this summer. My husband and I and our two teenage sons were joined by friends from Jacksonville and their 16-year-old.”
1 Comment to A family’s pilgrimage to see Yankee Stadium one last time
Im flying over from Sweden to see Babe’s House before it’s all gone. I have been “dreaming” of visiting Yankee Stadium ever since I passed it by on the highway going upstate in 96. And during that summer I started to learn and love the game of baseball. /Pinstriped Swede
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September 2, 2008