Posted on 05/15/2020 9:29:44 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
t's a glorious day for baseball at Yankee Stadium and fans are flocking to watch their team battle the Oakland Athletics, but two words are enough to cloud their joy.
One word is "George." The other is "Steinbrenner." After threatening to pull the Yankees out of their stadium in the Bronx and resettle them in New Jersey, it is well the multimillionaire owner is not present, for at this game he has no friends.
"The Yankees are a New York tradition," said Brendan Walsh, his voice heavy with sorrow. "To move them would be awful . . . just awful. New York would never be the same."
"I first came here with my grandfather," said Stacey Maartens. "Now my husband and I bring our kids. Is George Steinbrenner going to take it away from my grandchildren? The man is contemptible; he has no respect."
Forget mass murder, gang shootouts, blackouts, riots and terrorist bombers. Those are things with which New Yorkers can cope. But tell them the Yankees are about to pack up their pinstripes and move, and panic reigns.
They remember the defection of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and of the New York Giants to San Francisco in 1958 as though it happened yesterday, and the trauma simply cannot be borne again.
Yet that is what Steinbrenner is threatening. He is tired, he says, of the urban wasteland populated by drug pushers, prostitutes and panhandlers that surrounds Yankee Stadium.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
So has the area been cleaned up? They built the new Yankee stadium right next door to the old stadium, so it’s the same neighborhood.
Rudy tried. I don’t know if Bloombutt and De Fascio have monkeyed it up again.
Phillies bump
I grew up in CT just outside of NYC. My mother was born and raised in Brooklyn. Us kids had no choice, we could NOT be Yankees fans. Go Dodgers!
What’s the point of posting an article written in 1993? Are the Yankees currently threatening to move out of the Bronx?
They also considered the Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan, which would at least still have been New York City. I believe Westchester County expressed interest also — it’s only nine minutes down the Major Deegan Expressway from Yonkers Raceway to Yankee Stadium.
Ultimately, they stayed in The Bronx, at 161st St. & River Ave. (though the City Council later renamed that block of River Avenue Rivera Avenue.)
Yes, they kept their location at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
It’s a classic flashback.
It is good to reminisce.
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