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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (48052)9/21/2008 9:02:29 PM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224704
 
It's really not even the original stadium anyway... it's a dump. They kept the "statues" though.

Besides, the city of NY did the rebuild... you don't wanna be part of any government project do ya?

DAK



To: ManyMoose who wrote (48052)9/21/2008 9:26:28 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224704
 
They're carefully deconstructing the old stadium in order to sell seats, etc as souvenirs. Photo of the old and new:
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Here's the newspaper report from the very first game when Babe Ruth hit a homerun. Stadium held 74,000 at that time and 24,000 were turned away:
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com


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