Preserve Yankee Stadium ground as jewel open to all

The Daily News’ Michael Daly wrote this morning that at least the playing field should be preserved and cautions against false promised, like what fans were told prior to the demolition of Ebbets Field.

“The House That Ruth Built will be leveled, but the field he and the other Yankees immortals consecrated will remain.

The ground will be no less holy even if they take down the Stadium with a wrecking ball painted to look like a baseball, complete with red stitching, like the one used to help level the Brooklyn Dodgers’ home in 1960.

We must make absolutely sure we are not hoodwinked the way we were promised that the Ebbets Field home plate would go into a new Little League diamond on that same holy ground, funded by an auction of the Stadium’s contents.

Instead, Ebbets Field was turned over to real estate developers, who erected high-rise apartments and ghoulishly posted a “No Ball Playing” sign just where home plate had been.”

Read Daly’s full article here.

We believe that the entire Yankee Stadium can be preserved for the benefit of the entire New York City community. It could be made into a year-round attraction as a museum or as a branch of the Hall of Fame. And the playing field would still be there as it is today and it could still find good use. Please sIgn our petition if you feel the same way.

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