Posted on 11/04/2009 9:26:39 PM PST by GoldStandard
Reporting from New York - The grand opening year for the new Yankee Stadium concluded in grand fashion, in the only way the New York Yankees know how.
In 1923, the inaugural season for the old Yankee Stadium, the Yankees won the World Series in six games, with three home runs from Babe Ruth.
In 2009, the Yankees won the World Series in six games, with three home runs from Hideki Matsui.
In what could have been the final game of his career with the Yankees, Matsui homered and drove in six runs, lifting New York to a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.
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You sound like a White House press release.
I’m female and a HUGE Yankee fan. Some of my earliest and greatest childhood memories are sitting on my Dad’s lap watching the Yankees on channel 11 out of NY. I swear that’s the only reason we got cable in the late 70’s was because we could watch Yankee games with Phil Rizzuto announcing on channel 11. I recently remodeled my kitchen and couldn’t decide on a theme. I’m not one of those country kitchen type people or flowery wallpaper types. So I painted it white and Yankee blue and put up Yankee border and have pictures of all the great Yankees hung everywhere. Countertop is even yankee blue. My mother in law thinks I’m crazy, but I’ve gotten tons of complements, even from a Redsox loving nephew! (Sorry for the vanity post but I’ve waited 9 years for this!!) The first photo I put up was Lou Gehrig, and I probably read that same bio you wrote about. I liked how he used to put lead weights in his boots in the off season so that when he went hunting and walked through the woods, it strengthened his legs. Just think of what he could have done if he hadn’t gotten sick.
You got that right John. Since when do people at freerepublic not believe in the free market and spending your money as you see fit? I guess only when their team doesn’t win the world series!?
So easy, even a cave man can win a World Series.
Remember those old WW2 movies where they would ask Jap infiltrators questions about American baseball? Now it’s as big there as here. All because we occupied Japan after the war and out of boredom, taught them to play ball. No one could have imagined back then that a Japanese native would be the MVP of the World Series.
Big mistake to let Phillis pitch.
#27 feels like Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!
Phillis Martinez?
The end of the Hillary curse.. finally. Hopefully forever!
No, the biggest BOUGHT franchise in all of sports...
To the spoiled go the victors.
To quote the great Florida Evens, “Damn, Damn, Damn!”.
The Yankees BOUGHT their 27th World Series
The Yankees players BEAT the Phillies players. “Bought” has nothing to do with the playing of the game.
How can I support the Yankees?! They only win when the Rats are in the White House!
4 times during the Clinton administration
2 times during the Carter administration
2 times during the Kennedy administration.
Never when Bush 41 or 43 were in office, nor Reagan, Ford, or Nixon!
I love my Yanks!
Are you not going to buy the best talent money can buy?
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