Shed a tear for demise of a baseball cathedral

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized

We’re seeing early obituaries for Yankee Stadium everywhere, this one from the Toronto Star. It seems that baseball fans everywhere are mourning the loss of Yankee Stadium, praising its historical significance. Why can’t the powers that be in New York see it?

Here is an excerpt from the Star article and a link to the full story.

“Walk into Yankee Stadium over the years and it was hard not to feel like you were stepping into one of sports’ great cathedrals. Now that it is fading away it is hard not to feel the loss, even if from afar. A good ballpark is like a good golf course or a good book. It should have a personality, facial features, a plot-line, if you will. A great stadium has a history, it has ghosts in its shadows. Fathers should sit with sons, mothers with daughters, and point into the distance and tell stories from their own youth.”