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(photo by Mike Segar/Reuters)Here you see Mariano Rivera celebrating the Yankee's 100th victory of the season with catcher Jose Molina and first baseman Mark Teixeira, left. They completed a three game sweep of the notorious Boston Red Sox, and secured the home field advantage. And some home field it is this year!
This isn't a shot taken during a Yankees game, but during the ceremonies of the graduation of thousands of students from New York University - which is why there's so much purple! But those of you who remember the old Yankee Stadium - "the house that Ruth built" in 1923, which is just across 161st Street. How close is it? Well, just look:
The old stadium is on the left, and the new on the right - with the elevated portion of the IRT number 4 subway coursing right along beside them. There was, as many of you may remember, some controversy about why a new one had to be built, replacing a very popular Macombs Dam Park, but promises were made that other parks would be built to supplement the neighborhood. And, what to do with the old stadium?
According to the department of parks, demolition is begun, and should be completed some time in 2010. There will be community playgrounds and softball fields in its place.
But one thing was taken from it that may bring good luck to our Yankees:
This was the little sign that all Yankees would touch before going on to the ball field as a wish for good luck; with the permission of the New York Yankees, Derek Jeter now has the sign. Let's hope it will bring them luck in the new stadium!
So, it's come down to the question: so, if they're now with the home field advantage in the play-offs, who - do you think? - will they eventually play in the World Series? After all, the old Yankee Stadium hosted 37 World Series, more than any other baseball stadium (they won 26, more than any other team). And the Yankees, with Babe Ruth, not only won their first game in their new stadium - against Ruth's old team, the Red Sox, but won the World Series that year in their new stadium.
But this year, of course, the Red Sox are out of it. Maybe. (That old wild-card thing, I'm afraid.) Yet perhaps a new rivalry will begin: what's happening with the Phillies!?
On August 22 I gave a special tour (special for me) for a bus load of Phillies Phans who came in from Reading Pennsylvania. Two hours, said the leader, Chris Huey, is all they want, because they're anxious to see their team, and their ace hitter Ryan Howard and the pitcher Pedro Martinez would do against the Mets. Quite an enthusiastic group!
Here they are down around Battery Park City, taking pictures of the Statue of Liberty - and looking quite pleased to be in the Big Apple if I do say so myself. So, I provided a good tour for my Phillies Phans, but I had to ask them just how confident they were in their team this year. I stopped one particularly enthusiastic gentleman to ask him that question.
He had no doubt the Phillies would prevail:
He feels he has plenty of room for more! We shall see, my friend, we shall see ..... if we have a Turnpike Series!
This isn't a shot taken during a Yankees game, but during the ceremonies of the graduation of thousands of students from New York University - which is why there's so much purple! But those of you who remember the old Yankee Stadium - "the house that Ruth built" in 1923, which is just across 161st Street. How close is it? Well, just look:
The old stadium is on the left, and the new on the right - with the elevated portion of the IRT number 4 subway coursing right along beside them. There was, as many of you may remember, some controversy about why a new one had to be built, replacing a very popular Macombs Dam Park, but promises were made that other parks would be built to supplement the neighborhood. And, what to do with the old stadium?According to the department of parks, demolition is begun, and should be completed some time in 2010. There will be community playgrounds and softball fields in its place.
But one thing was taken from it that may bring good luck to our Yankees:
This was the little sign that all Yankees would touch before going on to the ball field as a wish for good luck; with the permission of the New York Yankees, Derek Jeter now has the sign. Let's hope it will bring them luck in the new stadium!So, it's come down to the question: so, if they're now with the home field advantage in the play-offs, who - do you think? - will they eventually play in the World Series? After all, the old Yankee Stadium hosted 37 World Series, more than any other baseball stadium (they won 26, more than any other team). And the Yankees, with Babe Ruth, not only won their first game in their new stadium - against Ruth's old team, the Red Sox, but won the World Series that year in their new stadium.
But this year, of course, the Red Sox are out of it. Maybe. (That old wild-card thing, I'm afraid.) Yet perhaps a new rivalry will begin: what's happening with the Phillies!?
On August 22 I gave a special tour (special for me) for a bus load of Phillies Phans who came in from Reading Pennsylvania. Two hours, said the leader, Chris Huey, is all they want, because they're anxious to see their team, and their ace hitter Ryan Howard and the pitcher Pedro Martinez would do against the Mets. Quite an enthusiastic group!
Here they are down around Battery Park City, taking pictures of the Statue of Liberty - and looking quite pleased to be in the Big Apple if I do say so myself. So, I provided a good tour for my Phillies Phans, but I had to ask them just how confident they were in their team this year. I stopped one particularly enthusiastic gentleman to ask him that question.He had no doubt the Phillies would prevail:
He feels he has plenty of room for more! We shall see, my friend, we shall see ..... if we have a Turnpike Series!
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