[Mr_Moonlight]

Last year the Yankees and the Mets drew 4 million customers apiece, the factions of New York flocking to the doomed and dying playpens in order to say goodbye. All summer long, people seemed to tiptoe through Yankee Stadium as if not wishing to disturb the ghosts, as if they were taking their last steps along some holy thoroughfare -- and in some ways, they were.

~~~ The last day at Yankee Stadium, grown men cried and didn't care who saw them. ~~~

[Mr_Moonlight]

~~~ PING ~~~

[Yo-Yo]

How many bodies will be pulled out of the concrete in the stands?

[the invisib1e hand]

Mike Vaccaro isn't just a sports writer, he's a sports writer.

Goes for Joel Sherman, as well.

[knarf]

[Artemis Webb]

BASEBALL PING LIST

If you would like to be on the ping list let me know.

This will be a medium volume ping list during the baseball season and a low volume ping list when all life stops in late October.

[Terpfen]

Yankee Stadium standing empty sounds pretty appropriate to me.

[To Hell With Poverty]

All summer long, people seemed to tiptoe through Yankee Stadium as if not wishing to disturb the ghosts, as if they were taking their last steps along some holy thoroughfare -- and in some ways, they were.

Except for the Red Sox fans....

[Artemis Webb]

I’ve been thinking about this since I read the article.

I’ve been asked in the past if I believe in ghost. I’ve said that what I believed was that places CAN retain a memory of things past. If that is true then that spot in The Bronx could and should be the most ghost filled place on earth.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

That's at least as bad as Ted Turner showing his massive ego and utter smallness at the same time by naming Turner Feld for himself instead of calling it Henry Aaron Stadium. There's a frikkin plaque in a parking lot commemorating that home run instead of a shrine.

Sad.

[henkster]

They ought to do with Yankee Stadium I what they did with Commiskey Park I: home plate should remain, along with the batter’s box, and be kept as a shrine. Even though the old Commiskey is now a parking lot, you can stand up on the concourse of new Commiskey and look down on old Commiskey’s batter’s box. It’s pretty cool.