For Love of a Ballpark

In today’s New York Sun, Andy Wolf outlines how the city has ignored requests to save the “Great Cathedral of Baseball,” as it was referred to repeatedly at last night’s ceremony — and how it can still serve the community, even without a Major League franchise.

“The last game of Major League baseball has been played at Yankee Stadium, following an incredible outpouring of nostalgia and reminiscences. Now the vultures are swooping down to sell off the great coliseum, piece by piece. Seats will fetch about a $1,000 each, someone is ready to package the dirt from the field, holy ground to millions of baseball fans throughout the world, and even the urinals will be sold for their “historic” value.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

When the announcement was made that the new Stadium will be built across the street, it was asserted that at least part of the old Stadium would be salvaged.

Somehow, in a town that requires a public hearing if a restaurant wants to put a few tables outside of their establishment, no public hearing was deemed necessary regarding the demolition of this iconic building, one that, by the way, is the public property of the City of New York. The Yankees are merely tenants.”

Read the full article here.

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