not OLD Yankee Stadium. this IS Yankee Stadium, the only one which doesn’t exist anymore. they may call the new place Yankee Stadium but it isn’t. if the Mona Lisa gets destroyed in a fire and someone creates a new one is that the Mona Lisa?
@@michaelcrockette8694 Might as well give it corporate name. I used to resepect Orioles and Yankess for not cashing out, then the Orioles made it So CASH is not allowed.in the stadium. Then they had a homo hat day, and I am done. Sickens me that the ykung angelos is pushing new world order sin.
No luxury boxes. No obnoxious "batter theme music". Just Eddie Leighton at the Hammond organ. No player "celebrations" upon a regular season victory as if it were the world series. You could take the family there without breaking the budget. No players pointing to the heavens thanking God for their bases on balls. No wave. No intrusive tv cameras lapping up "praying fans" posing for the camera. No ads in your face everywhere. Just baseball, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and Bob Sheppard. And what a beautiful place it was. I remember my first trip there from NJ on a summer playground bus outing. I was in for a shock when I got inside. It was in COLOR! I always watched the Yankees on our b&w tv on WPIX with Mel Allen and the Scooter, Phil Rizutto. They televised every game then (many during the day) and by the way, it was free! No YES, etc. No endless commercials. I was lucky enough to see several games in the original Yankee Stadium's moribund days. It was showing its age, but could have been rehabilitated (not gutted as what transpired). You could show up at the box office and get box seats the day of the game easily. Even the ushers hijacking you before you got to your seat to "dust it off" while holding out their hand for a tip simultaneously was kinda part of the overall experience as you'd try to beat them to your seats. And yes, there were ads, mostly stationary signs behind the centerfield bleachers (not constantly rolling ads the centerfield camera picks up or superimposed ones like today) that added to the beautiful vista the stadium presented. And yes, there were "Ballantine Blasts" as well, but overall the commercial aspect of the game seemed to be more seamlessly integrated into the overall experience and not nearly intrusive and pervasive today. Everything was affordable. In a way the old stadium experience, whether being there or watching on tv symbolizes baseball's current deal with the devil, i.e., the MLB television contract. It is my opinion that this has ruined the game from a fan's perspective. Everything now is about (guess) money and even political correctness, as if we don't have enough of that already in our culture; no endless tv ads to offset and exceed tv's investment; no cameras jumping around between pitches to provide gratuitous close-ups of everything from players' spitting to nose-picking (this, to keep the "casual fan" engaged as the game itself is "boring" and God forbid the viewer switches channels and misses their precious commercials) ... however, it serves the opposite purpose in making the game unwatchable. Players and fans striking poses for the ever-present cameras. Owners charging fortunes to offset the players salaries. Sunday, as well as holiday doubleheaders, virtually non-existent (why only one charge for two games when you can soak your customer for 2 separate dates?). Teams like the Astros, for instance, caught cheating. And even more expansion being discussed! Both the old (original) Yankee Stadium and the team and game it hosted are long gone now. So sad.
well said and so true. My first experience at age 10 in 1971 and walking thru the game beyond the fence in center field was amazing. To look up at the massive bleachers and to see how far the monuments were from the plate is mind boggling. Most of the guys today would complain about the stadium dimensions because their massive egos would be crushed to hit one 440 feet to left center and see it caught.
I went to the last game at the original Yankee Stadium. Sunday Sept. 30, 1973. I still have my seat ... Sec. 33 Box 165E Seat 5 .. Made of wood, steel, and a lot of paint.
I was there earlier in the season and had Sears near field level by the Yankees bullpen. People were throwing the baseball that are given out, since it was Ball Day for the Yankee pitchers to sign which 3 pitchers did for me. I miss the old stadium. I still have that baseball.
the best ever.used to attend day night double headers. 1959 thru 1965 Mantle and Maris 61 Home Run race to 61.Got to see M and M go back to back homer's,twice.,Yogi, Howard,the Moose,Hector, Ford, Can still smell the place, Yankees owned baseball. Maybe 75,000 capacity.Great times. sat next to left field bullpen,visitors pen. You could talk to the players.Between pitch's Yogi who did play some left field, would turn and yak it up with fans.50 cent bleacher seats yes 50 cents.1960.I was blessed to experience the REAL YANKEE STADIUM. Thanks so MUCH for this video. Time for a Balentine Blast.
The greatest ballpark ever. My best memory of the real Yankee Stadium was June 24, 1970. My favorite player Bobby Murcer hit 4 home runs in a doubleheader versus the Indians. There was a bench clearing brawl involving Vada Pinson of Cleveland in the second game. A wild doubleheader.
I was at that DH. A cherry bomb went off under Ray Fosse feet, Nettles hit 2 hrs for Cleveland, Sam McDowell won the 1st game! After Nettles 2nd hr, We in the crowd joked Bobby would just have to hit another. And he DID. Didn't Hamilton Throw the Folly Floater in game game 1 . Munson Caught a foul pop out off Tony Horton, who crawled back into the Dugout! The crowd went wild, even when we were losing 9-0!
This is the real Yankee Stadium. Brings back great memories although for me it was during 1965 and 1975 and a lot of last place finishes until The Boss bought the team from CBS and turned it around. Also RIP Horace Clarke who passed away this week at 81.
Actually only one last place finish and 6 of 10 seasons of .500 or better. Some of the teams of the late 60’s and into the 70’s were fun to watch as they slowly retooled into contenders. And I love Hoss Clarke! They tore down the wrong stadium!
@@jjjones8797 I agree, Ron Woods, Jim Lyttle, Tom Shopay, The Alou Brothers, Celerino Sanchez were some of the few of the regulars during those years. When CBS ran the team into the ground. I can never forget Steve Hamilton and his folly floater and Lindy McDaniel and his forkball which is really the precursor to the splitter. I can go on and on.
@@aa697 Yes! And Horace Clarke had a better career WAR than Bobby Richardson (so did Jerry Kenney). Not to put Bobby down, but just to give credit to Hoss and Jerry!
@@jjjones8797 Jerry Kenney and Bobby Murcer were the up and coming rookie stars for the Yankees. I remember they hit back to back homers one day. Kenney never really made it but Murcer was a very good ballplayer over his career. I remember the Sports Illustrated Cover with Murcer and Bloomberg in 1973. Total payroll was $1.2M back then.
I went to a lot of games in the old stadium. The two most memorable: 1. September 9, 1961 -- Yankees vs. Cleveland. Whitey Ford Day. Starting pitchers Rollie Sheldon vs. Mudcat Grant. Roger Maris hit his 56th (of 61) home runs, but the Yanks trailed the Indians 7-4 going to the bottom of the ninth facing reliever Frank Funk. Hector Lopez batted for reliever Luis Arroyo, tripled to center field. Bobby Richardson beats out a bunt single (looked out, called safe, no replay challenges back then), Lopez scored. 7-5 Indians. Wild pitch, Richardson to second. After fouling off a whole mess of pitches, Tony Kubek walked. Maris hit a ball part-way to the mound, gets thrown out, runners move to second and third. Mickey Mantle is walked intentionally. Johnnie Blanchard hits aground-rule double to left, Richardson and Kubek scored, Mantle to third, crowd goes wild. 7-7. Elston Howard is walked intentionally. Bill "Moose" Skowron hits a sacrifice fly to right, Mantle scores. 8-7. Ball game over, Yankees win! Everybody's happy! 2. October 7, 1962 -- Yankees vs. San Francisco Giants, World Series game 3. My father, a friend and I went to the game, looking to buy bleacher seats. Sold out. Bummer. However, back then, they had standing room tickets, so the three of us stood for six hours behind third base in the back of the mezzanine level. Bill Stafford vs. Billie Pierce. Don "perfect game" Larsen pitched one inning in relief -- for the Giants! Tight scoreless game going to the seventh inning. Roger Maris singled in two runs, Tom Tresh and Mickey Mantle. 2-0 Yanks. Later in the inning Clete Boyer drove in a third run, Maris. 3-0 Yanks. In the top of the ninth, Ed Bailey hits a 2-out, 2-run homer to right field, making the score 3-2 Yanks. Jim Davenport then flew out to left field. Bill Stafford with a 4-hit, 2-walk, complete game win. Ball game over, Yankees win! Everybody's happy!
Very cool stories! I love Yankee history. My dad would tell me stories of when he was a kid growing up in late 40s to 50s NYC. I STILL can't watch ANYTHING from the '55 series! I was born in '63, so I missed those golden years. But when '77 & '78 rolled around...oh happy days!!! I lived in Brooklyn back then. So beating the Dodgers was FANTASTIC!! It kinda made up for '55 and '63 in MY mind!!!
I've been to some historic games too, as I used to live in NY. Roger Maris's 61st home run, Chambliss's pennant winning HR in 1976, Reggie Jackson's three homers in the World Series, and Guidry's 18 strikeouts. Then I moved to CT. The game I missed that I was supposed to be at...Dave Righetti's no-hitter against the Red Sox...the Mianus River bridge collapsed and I couldn't get into the City.
@@psyclonejack1523 It sounds like losses from before you were even born really haunted you. What about 1957? 1960? 1964? Do those bother you a lot too or not as much because it wasn't the Dodgers? I know for me generally if it happened before I was a fan then it doesn't affect me as much. 1960 I was always fascinated by because it seemed like the perfect movie script. Also I was born in 83 so all that stuff felt like such a bygone era that I couldn't connect with it the same way you could. Another question I have. You know the Yankees always beat the Dodgers in so many World Series in the 40s and 50s. Why agonize over '55? Did you feel a certain responsibility to make sure you beat them every time and never let em up once? Because I can sorta remember a situation in my lifetime that was similar to that which was also pretty upsetting in 2004. And yeah, I did feel there was a responsibility to 'maintain the curse' so to speak. Do you see 1955 and 2004 as very similar?
Awesome vid. As a 47 year old Mets fan I wish I would have seen the old Yankee stadium. Also Ebbetts Field,Polo Grounds, Old Madison Square Garden. These old buildings were cool!
August 1988. I saw the Yankees vs Orioles. My father took me on my birthday. Told me that we were going to Belmont Park. We got off the Deegan Parked the car and said " I gotta do something I'll be right back." He dame back to our car with 4 Yankee tickets to the non alcoholic family section. I thought those were the best sears ever. I miss you Poppa.
So much better before the renovation. Hard to believe they tore it down. It was Yankee Stadium! I was at the last game played at Comiskey Park and it was sad as hell knowing it was the last time.
I was part of a baseball tour group back in '96. Our bus drove by Comiskey Park on our way to Wrigley Field. I can see why so many White Sox fans were disappointed when it opened in '92.
Are you kidding me??? They tore town this classic stadium, The House That Ruth Built, laden with baseball history, without so much as a whimper. Where were the real Yankee fans when that happened???
@@acousticshadow4032 I didn't say tear down the stadium for bigger bathrooms! I said the old stadium was fine except for the small bathrooms!!!!!!!!!give you a break? Wtf you smoking guy!
It was a tough negotiation. My father wound up giving that kid 75 cents, a bag of peanuts, a soda and the Swoboda bat. A 4 for 1 swap. In 1972 they gave me a Frank Baker bat. Baker was out of baseball in '72. That's my luck.
That was my dream to visit the stadium that Ruth built. Wish I could back in time to do it. Now that I'm 80, time is running out, plus that original ballpark no longer exists.
Beautiful video and music. Thanks for posting! My first time to the Stadium was May 22, 1966...Yanks take two from the Twins, defending A.L. Champs! We sat in the first row of the right field mezzanine, in fair territory (Section 33?). Joe Pepitone and Jake Gibbs hit home runs that landed in the lower deck, right below us. Great memories!
My first game was April 30, 1967. Mick hit one left handed and one right handed walk off in game 1 vs Angels. Whitey Ford with the win. Dropped the night cap. Attendance 47,000 cap day crowd. Sat upper reserve sect 22. Your section 33 is correct. Last section before the bullpen and bleacher in right field.
As a young kid I saw the Yankees play the White Sox in July, 1961. Being from the Pittsburgh area, it was an amazing experience. I was there with my dad and uncle. I remember riding the subway to the game. The subway car rocking like crazy as it flew underground in the darkness. Players I saw: White Sox (Aparicio, Landis, Minoso, Lollar, Fox, Don Larsen), Yankees (Richardson, Kubek, Maris with 2HRs, Mantle with 1HR, Howard, Skowron, Boyer, and Ford pitched) And how many Hall of Famers were on the field that day? Lots. Nellie Fox had gone 3 for 3 when he came to bat for the last time in the game. The fans gave him a special ovation as he stepped up. Pretty dang cool. Never forgot it. It was respect for a great player.
As a 22 year old orioles fan, I can honestly say this video adds almost a ghostly and eerie vibe to the old stadium. But I have to say I’ve never wanted to go back in time more too see this stadium with my own eyes.
My first game at Yankee Stadium: August, 1962. My first major league game ever. I was eleven. My father and I sat in the left field upper deck, just off third base. The Yanks beat Boston, 13-3. Ralph Terry bested Bill Mumboquette. AL Rookie of the Year Tom Tresh hit a home run. Eddie Bressoud was thrown out at home trying to stretch a triple into an inside the park home run. And the Red Sox rookie left fielder lost a ball in the sun and dropped it. I missed it because everyone was standing. That rookie was named Carl Yastremski. I was in awe of the huge Stadium despite the obstructed views of the field. good grief, that was a ballpark! I recall really liking the Red Sox road uniforms too.
An engineering work of art, the original Yankee Stadium. Intimidating to the opposition, deep, deep outfield in left to right center, high walls and screen across the top. Originally 490 FT to dead centerfield with no fence. Reduced to a mere 461 FT to centerfield just left of the monuments in fair play. According to to Baseball historians no hitter ever officially carried the centerfield wall for a homerun in 40 years! You could pitch away from power hitters and keep the ball in the park. The foul lines were short at 301 FT. to left and 296 Ft to right. In the 1963 World Series Game 1 top of 2nd inning huge Frank Howard hit a rocket to dead center and the ball hit a couple feet short of the wall and he got a double, then Johnny Roseboro hit a blooper down the right field line and the wind blew it around the flagpole for a cheap 3 run homer! That gave Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers, at the top of his game a a 4-0 lead in the 2nd inning. I only saw pictures and read history growing up in LA, but hearing you guys stories, it must have bee something to see a game at this magnificent ballpark. Thank you for sharing you words eye view.
If Judge and Stanton had to hit in a Yankee Stadium that had the same dimensions as the 1960's their numbers would be quite different. I really feel for Moose Skowron, DiMaggio, and more recently Dave Winfield and Don Baylor.
They did renovate it! It cost $100 million. Yet Kansas City built two beautiful new places for less than half that: Arrowhead Stadium and Royals Stadium (one of baseball's most beautiful ballparks). Why did it cost so much to simply remodel Yankee Stadium?
my first game was 1949, a playoff for the pennant on the last game of the season with Boston i believe Yankees won 5-2. Dom and joe DiMaggio played centerfield.
Thanks for this video. My mother, uncle, their cousin grew up poor in brooklyn. My grand aunt and great grandmother used to save all week to tale them to baseball games. In the cheap bleacher seats. Wish I could see pictures of those people in that seating area…and that era up closer. Yankees Stadium was the only MLB stadium I ever went to in NYC, as a kid but that was 1981.
I chuckle somewhat when I hear modern baseball announcers remark about how 'far' it is to hit a homerun in some ballparks (like they talk about the 'new' left field dimension in Oriole Park at Camden Yards). Yankee stadium had insane dimensions except for down the left field line and the right field porch. If you weren't a super pull-hitter, you had a long way to go by today's standards. (Same could be said about the old Polo Grounds).
Still the greatest of all ballparks. The running track was initially meant to be a 1/4 mile running track to hold track and field events. Don't know if any were ever held.
I remember going as far back as 1971. I use to love seeing the relief pitcher get driven in by golf cart, before it became a custom pinstriped Datsun. They drove along the warning track until they got tired of being pelted and just drove directly from the bullpen over the outfield grass. And for a buck you had a great bleacher seat and for 50 cents more you could sit in General Admission in the upper deck which was behind the support beams.
Good memory. I plead guilty here for throwing peanuts at the Datsun. Banana Nose was the driver. The general admission seats in the upper deck were the last 8 rows. If you got there early, you could sit on the aisle to avoid the beams.
I first went to Yankee Stadium in 1962 as a 7 year old. Been there countless times since. The 7th inning clouds of tobacco smoke that hung over the field.... walking onto the field after the game exiting thru the RF bullpen...the CF train.... the monuments in CF, in play.....25 cent scorecard and $1.25 Yankee yearbook.....Bob Shephard announcing the lineups.... standing O's for The Mick just for moving into the on deck circle...
The old stadium was outdated, especially the bathrooms and it was very crammed overall. Remember there was an incident in 1998 when a chunk of it fell. Bottom line is that Steinbrenner wanted a new one for a while, and to make additional money in the shops and luxury boxes etc in the new one. He was offered to renovate it again but he turned it down in order to get a new stadium
I saw my first game at Yankee in '79. I always wished I could see it before the renovation. This video is about as close as I'll ever get. Thanks so much for posting this.
My grandfather told me that the tragedy isn't that the old Yankee Stadium isn't there anymore. It's that the new park has $2,000/game seats. He's been priced out of the new place for life.
1st NYY game was 4/30/67, a cap day Sunday doubleheader vs LA Angels. Game 1 Whitey Ford starts but got a no decision. Mickey hit 2. 1 LH. 1 RH including a 3 run game winning walk off HR in the bottom of the 10th. Hal Reniff got the W. What a thrill as a 10 YR old. Also, attended Mickey Mantle Day 6/8/69. Father's Day. Sect 23 lower box seats. Iconic day. I found us in the UA-cam video as Mickey passes by in the golf cart waving.
The caption says Old Yankee Stadium 1923 to 1973. However, it seems as if none of the shots show Yankee Stadium in its early years before 1937 when there was no third deck behind right field and when the deepest part of the stadium was 490 feet.
Some ball parks just have the feel of baseball. The original Yankee Stadium did, Fenway Park does (despite a few flaws), and today it's Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Today's parks seem to miss that feel, they're more concerned with looking good in pictures, having the best concessions and such. The upper decks are a high up and a long way from the field. I love seeing Oracle Park on TV but can't really see it as a place to play baseball. MIller Park? What were they thinking? I'd rather have the flaws of the original Yankee Stadium than sit with binoculars in the upper deck of Citizens Bank Park.
Here is a interesting fact. Ruth hit more homeruns on the road than in Yankee stadium. This really astounding when you take the fact of the short right field porch.
Thing I hate most about the new stadium is they built it on Macombs Dam Park, so we lost the view of the Bronx County courthouse beyond centerfield. I always felt that view was part of the ambience of Yankee Stadium as much as the stadium itself. Also, you can't see it as clearly from the Harlem River Drive. I always liked riding past it in the evening when it was lit up, and the way the lights reflected in the water.
I actually agree with this comment. Most see the current Yankee Stadium as being too sterile, I think it represents at the very least, a real effort to replicate the original ballpark, but with a modern spin, so to speak. People have to realize that you won't get a brick for brick replica of old Yankee Stadium. But they didn't just throw up a steel and glass structure and call it a day. They paid homage to their past with their new ballpark. Is it perfect? No. But perfection is an unfair standard.
Two different parks. The second one was around long enough to have its own character. Also fans were closer to the field. You cannot replicate the original. It was one of a kind
Last year I attended a game at Yankee Stadium. Took a lot of pictures. Yankee Stadium is a magnificent structure, a baseball museum. Of course, with a digital camera. Yet, these pictures that I saw right now make my pictures pale in comparison.
First game I went to was a Saturday night game late 1967 season. I was eight. I still have the image burned in my brain walking out of the tunnel on the 3rd base side. It was a Cathederal. A grand manor house in its waning years as the once great team fell. Years later I found an old box score. Attendance was under 3,000 many with free tickets through the parochial school system. Mantle was 1 for 3 a single and a base on ball. The renovated stadium at least could say it stood on hallowed ground.
I had the same experience in 1969 as a 10 year old!....coming out of the right field lower box tunnel and seeing that magnificence!....also seeing my favorite player, Bobby Murcer shagging flyballs!
@@johnsain Great times. I remember the ushers still wore the red coats and hats. One thing about President Mike Burke was Bat day you got a real little league bat, a cloth hat with the NY stitched in and an official MLB baseball.
@@tomb4575 Wow!...I didn't realize the ball I got on Ball Day was official MLB...too bad it's long gone....but I do have a real one, a foul ball I caught in the upper deck behind home plate with one hand....Yep,...I got a big cheer at Yankee Stadium in 1986...even a "sign him up" chant!
How could the people of New York let them tear down the house that Babe built? It should have stood as long as there was baseball in America. It was a part of the history and very fabric of our country.
Newark South Ward Little League used to take us there....'67/68/69. We went the day before Mickey Mantle Day in '69. It was becoming a dump more & more each year, but, it was the Yankees man, and a fun bus trip to NY.
Sad but true, the old Stadium’s structure was becoming untenable. I wish that it wasn’t true as I really loved the old one. My first visit ever was in 1968. I was there on the day our astronauts landed on the moon.(Washington Senators were in town.) I was there after the renovation on opening day. Nothing like it in the world. But let’s be fair, the new stadium is also awesome and I love that the peculiar playing field is the same. I hope that this one lasts as long as the old one did!
Nice pics and all, but none were WITHOUT the monuments in center field. The Stadium was built in 1923 , and Ruth was playing (no monument yet) Gehrig was about to join Ruth and Miller Huggins was the Manager at the time. He died in 1929 and the first monument was erected to him. When Gehrig died, his monument went up in 1941 and Ruth's death led to his monument (making the third) was erected in 1949. So there are no pics older than 1949 in this very nice collection.
Hard to believe, but there is very little color TV footage of the original Yankee Stadium remaining. Someone posted excerpts from opening day 1970, also Mickey Mantle day 1969, and Mickey Mantle’s 500th career homeruns in 1967.
I was at Mickey Mantle Day on 6/8/69. We had seats around 10 rows behind the Yankee dugout. Went with my cousins and my younger brother. Bought the tickets before they announced when the Mick's day would be - how's that for luck? What an incredible day, standing and cheering for the Mick, my first sports hero, for around 10 minutes. I'm now 66 and feel pretty safe in saying that will be the greatest sporting event I will ever attend in my lifetime.
5:04 has to have been an extremely rare occurrence: a DH game (I'm assuming that's what the "B" means) in the pre-renovation Stadium. Thanks for posting this; I'm a Sox fan, but my earliest memory of the Stadium is Joe Garagiola doing a grand tour of it on NBC when it reopened after the reno, and I've always wondered what the original really looked like. Love that scoreboard!
@@rmartin7558 Date of the game was 4/15/73. Using the great info from Retrosheet.org, scoreboard provides the dates of the following: 1:29 - 8/3/68. 1:46- 8/9/72 - between games of a doubleheader.
I got to go to just one game at the original stadium: 9/2/1973, a 1-0 loss to Baltimore. I was 7 & it was my first game in person. Was in the upper deck with my parents & there were hippies next to us smoking pot. So it my first exposure to that too, lol. After that, there were just 11 more games there, so made it just in time.
In the later years there's a little press box - it looks like one - hanging from the upper deck in right field, at the extreme edge. A pretty odd placing for a press box; I wonder what the story was on that. Maybe for football games?
The photo at 5:15 is of a ceremony at the Stadium in 1965 at which Joe DiMaggio showed his undying love for Marilyn Monroe by ignoring Bobby Kennedy when Bobby tried to shake his hand, thus leaving The Man Who Would Be President with some well deserved egg on his face.
Joe D was know for his attitude. He looked down on Mickey Mantle even to the day he died. www.si.com/mlb/2017/05/12/yankees-joe-dimaggio-mickey-mantle-grudge-cancer-never-let-go
Nice photos. But at the 3:23 mark, that isn't 1968. The seats are "sea foam green." That was their color from 1957 to 1966. In 1968, they were royal blue. Pretty good photo of the sea-foam green seats, though. Thanks.
2:07 During introductions, The Yankee Clipper walked right past Bobby Kennedy, ostensibly in reference to the Kennedy's relationship with his former wife.
Not sure, but there are clues in the photo that might help, especially with folks who have great knowledge of the Stadium's history, plus using the great info in Retrosheet.org and Baseball Reference.com. That's Phil Rizzuto playing shortstop, so the game can be no later than 1956. The Scooter looks pretty solid in that picture so would have to think the game is in the final years of his career. No batter's eye curtain in CF, so that's another clue...when did they start using that? If memory serves, they used it intermittently up until the 60's then it was a permanent fixture? Players and fans are in short sleeves, so it's a warm, sunny day. Can the billboards provide more clues? Runner on second and lefty batter up. Anyone recognize the runner or the second base umpire? ...I did some more digging on Retrosheet: Could be July 18, 1956, 7th inning, Game 2 of doubleheader - Mickey McDermott on the mound, Harvey Kuenn on second base, and Charley Maxwell up at bat. That was only home game Rizzuto played versus Detroit that year.
You're welcome! While I'm pretty sure of the date, I made a slight mistake in my commentary...in that photo, a small slice of the batter's eye curtain is visible on the extreme right of the photo. I thought the monuments were in dead center, but they are actually left of dead center.
It’s actually called Macombs Dam Park, and the original old footprint contains a full sized field, with a softball and Little League diamonds situated in what was the right field stands and the left-center stands. It’s open to the view of passers-by as you walk towards the new stadium. I always visualize the past greats positioned as I walk parallel to the former left field line, from the train station to the new field.
I was there when the tarp went up at 3:00 I believe it was a Friday night twi night double header against the KC A's, summer of 1967. During the first game a big summer storm came from nowhere, and it was wind, rain and chaos for half an hour. I never thought i would see pictures from that night ever again, please correct me if I am thinking of the wrong night.
I was never a Yankees fan here in NY but have to admit it was a cute miniature stadium just like the new one. There’s a rumor that a player once bunted a home run into the short porch in right field. I don’t know if it’s true though.
You're dumber than a bag of doorknobs. The right center power alley was 407. It was 463 to dead center, and 457 to left center. 402 to straight away left. Go play in traffic.
Too bad they have passed - you could have asked Joe DiMaggio and Thurman Munson what they thought of the Stadium's dimensions when it came to home runs.
Breaks my heart to think it’s gone forever. Wonderful childhood memories.
Thanks to ZOG....it's gone forever...
not OLD Yankee Stadium. this IS Yankee Stadium, the only one which doesn’t exist anymore. they may call the new place Yankee Stadium but it isn’t. if the Mona Lisa gets destroyed in a fire and someone creates a new one is that the Mona Lisa?
My Grandparents grew up right near there. Married there.. Dad was born there too.
Same here.
@@michaelcrockette8694 Might as well give it corporate name. I used to resepect Orioles and Yankess for not cashing out, then the Orioles made it So CASH is not allowed.in the stadium. Then they had a homo hat day, and I am done. Sickens me that the ykung angelos is pushing new world order sin.
No luxury boxes. No obnoxious "batter theme music". Just Eddie Leighton at the Hammond organ. No player "celebrations" upon a regular season victory as if it were the world series. You could take the family there without breaking the budget. No players pointing to the heavens thanking God for their bases on balls. No wave. No intrusive tv cameras lapping up "praying fans" posing for the camera. No ads in your face everywhere. Just baseball, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and Bob Sheppard. And what a beautiful place it was. I remember my first trip there from NJ on a summer playground bus outing. I was in for a shock when I got inside. It was in COLOR! I always watched the Yankees on our b&w tv on WPIX with Mel Allen and the Scooter, Phil Rizutto. They televised every game then (many during the day) and by the way, it was free! No YES, etc. No endless commercials. I was lucky enough to see several games in the original Yankee Stadium's moribund days. It was showing its age, but could have been rehabilitated (not gutted as what transpired). You could show up at the box office and get box seats the day of the game easily. Even the ushers hijacking you before you got to your seat to "dust it off" while holding out their hand for a tip simultaneously was kinda part of the overall experience as you'd try to beat them to your seats. And yes, there were ads, mostly stationary signs behind the centerfield bleachers (not constantly rolling ads the centerfield camera picks up or superimposed ones like today) that added to the beautiful vista the stadium presented. And yes, there were "Ballantine Blasts" as well, but overall the commercial aspect of the game seemed to be more seamlessly integrated into the overall experience and not nearly intrusive and pervasive today. Everything was affordable. In a way the old stadium experience, whether being there or watching on tv symbolizes baseball's current deal with the devil, i.e., the MLB television contract. It is my opinion that this has ruined the game from a fan's perspective. Everything now is about (guess) money and even political correctness, as if we don't have enough of that already in our culture; no endless tv ads to offset and exceed tv's investment; no cameras jumping around between pitches to provide gratuitous close-ups of everything from players' spitting to nose-picking (this, to keep the "casual fan" engaged as the game itself is "boring" and God forbid the viewer switches channels and misses their precious commercials) ... however, it serves the opposite purpose in making the game unwatchable. Players and fans striking poses for the ever-present cameras. Owners charging fortunes to offset the players salaries. Sunday, as well as holiday doubleheaders, virtually non-existent (why only one charge for two games when you can soak your customer for 2 separate dates?). Teams like the Astros, for instance, caught cheating. And even more expansion being discussed! Both the old (original) Yankee Stadium and the team and game it hosted are long gone now. So sad.
Great sentiments. Couldn't agree more.
no aaron judge worship (cause he's half the chosen race) as was punk jeter....
Excellent reply u said it all thanks
well said and so true. My first experience at age 10 in 1971 and walking thru the game beyond the fence in center field was amazing. To look up at the massive bleachers and to see how far the monuments were from the plate is mind boggling. Most of the guys today would complain about the stadium dimensions because their massive egos would be crushed to hit one 440 feet to left center and see it caught.
I went to the last game at the original Yankee Stadium. Sunday Sept. 30, 1973. I still have my seat ... Sec. 33 Box 165E Seat 5 .. Made of wood, steel, and a lot of paint.
i was there also.
First game at the reopened Stadium in '76 was against the Twins. Only homer hit that day was by Dan Ford of the Twins.
I was there earlier in the season and had Sears near field level by the Yankees bullpen. People were throwing the baseball that are given out, since it was Ball Day for the Yankee pitchers to sign which 3 pitchers did for me. I miss the old stadium.
I still have that baseball.
I have my seat too. Just the seat part. Sec. 9..
@The Blessings Of Jesus Channel Baloney, it was against Minnesota
the best ever.used to attend day night double headers. 1959 thru 1965 Mantle and Maris 61 Home Run race to 61.Got to see M and M go back to back homer's,twice.,Yogi, Howard,the Moose,Hector, Ford, Can still smell the place, Yankees owned baseball. Maybe 75,000 capacity.Great times. sat next to left field bullpen,visitors pen. You could talk to the players.Between pitch's Yogi who did play some left field, would turn and yak it up with fans.50 cent bleacher seats yes 50 cents.1960.I was blessed to experience the REAL YANKEE STADIUM. Thanks so MUCH for this video. Time for a Balentine Blast.
The greatest ballpark ever. My best memory of the real Yankee Stadium was June 24, 1970. My favorite player Bobby Murcer hit 4 home runs in a doubleheader versus the Indians. There was a bench clearing brawl involving Vada Pinson of Cleveland in the second game. A wild doubleheader.
I was at that DH. A cherry bomb went off under Ray Fosse feet, Nettles hit 2 hrs for Cleveland, Sam McDowell won the 1st game! After Nettles 2nd hr, We in the crowd joked Bobby would just have to hit another. And he DID. Didn't Hamilton Throw the Folly Floater in game game 1 . Munson Caught a foul pop out off Tony Horton, who crawled back into the Dugout! The crowd went wild, even when we were losing 9-0!
@@johnhurley4790 Grow up already
also ray fosse got hit in the foot from a thrown firecracker
With respect, it was a rat hole
Joe Ambrose sounds like a fun guy to be around.
This is the real Yankee Stadium. Brings back great memories although for me it was during 1965 and 1975 and a lot of last place finishes until The Boss bought the team from CBS and turned it around.
Also RIP Horace Clarke who passed away this week at 81.
Actually only one last place finish and 6 of 10 seasons of .500 or better. Some of the teams of the late 60’s and into the 70’s were fun to watch as they slowly retooled into contenders.
And I love Hoss Clarke! They tore down the wrong stadium!
@@jjjones8797 I agree, Ron Woods, Jim Lyttle, Tom Shopay, The Alou Brothers, Celerino Sanchez were some of the few of the regulars during those years. When CBS ran the team into the ground. I can never forget Steve Hamilton and his folly floater and Lindy McDaniel and his forkball which is really the precursor to the splitter. I can go on and on.
@@aa697 Yes! And Horace Clarke had a better career WAR than Bobby Richardson (so did Jerry Kenney). Not to put Bobby down, but just to give credit to Hoss and Jerry!
@@jjjones8797 Jerry Kenney and Bobby Murcer were the up and coming rookie stars for the Yankees. I remember they hit back to back homers one day. Kenney never really made it but Murcer was a very good ballplayer over his career. I remember the Sports Illustrated Cover with Murcer and Bloomberg in 1973. Total payroll was $1.2M back then.
I went to a lot of games in the old stadium. The two most memorable:
1. September 9, 1961 -- Yankees vs. Cleveland. Whitey Ford Day. Starting pitchers Rollie Sheldon vs. Mudcat Grant. Roger Maris hit his 56th (of 61) home runs, but the Yanks trailed the Indians 7-4 going to the bottom of the ninth facing reliever Frank Funk. Hector Lopez batted for reliever Luis Arroyo, tripled to center field. Bobby Richardson beats out a bunt single (looked out, called safe, no replay challenges back then), Lopez scored. 7-5 Indians. Wild pitch, Richardson to second. After fouling off a whole mess of pitches, Tony Kubek walked. Maris hit a ball part-way to the mound, gets thrown out, runners move to second and third. Mickey Mantle is walked intentionally. Johnnie Blanchard hits aground-rule double to left, Richardson and Kubek scored, Mantle to third, crowd goes wild. 7-7. Elston Howard is walked intentionally. Bill "Moose" Skowron hits a sacrifice fly to right, Mantle scores. 8-7. Ball game over, Yankees win! Everybody's happy!
2. October 7, 1962 -- Yankees vs. San Francisco Giants, World Series game 3. My father, a friend and I went to the game, looking to buy bleacher seats. Sold out. Bummer. However, back then, they had standing room tickets, so the three of us stood for six hours behind third base in the back of the mezzanine level. Bill Stafford vs. Billie Pierce. Don "perfect game" Larsen pitched one inning in relief -- for the Giants! Tight scoreless game going to the seventh inning. Roger Maris singled in two runs, Tom Tresh and Mickey Mantle. 2-0 Yanks. Later in the inning Clete Boyer drove in a third run, Maris. 3-0 Yanks. In the top of the ninth, Ed Bailey hits a 2-out, 2-run homer to right field, making the score 3-2 Yanks. Jim Davenport then flew out to left field. Bill Stafford with a 4-hit, 2-walk, complete game win. Ball game over, Yankees win! Everybody's happy!
My father would just slip a couple of dollars to a sky cap to get us seats.
Very cool stories! I love Yankee history. My dad would tell me stories of when he was a kid growing up in late 40s to 50s NYC. I STILL can't watch ANYTHING from the '55 series! I was born in '63, so I missed those golden years. But when '77 & '78 rolled around...oh happy days!!! I lived in Brooklyn back then. So beating the Dodgers was FANTASTIC!! It kinda made up for '55 and '63 in MY mind!!!
I've been to some historic games too, as I used to live in NY. Roger Maris's 61st home run, Chambliss's pennant winning HR in 1976, Reggie Jackson's three homers in the World Series, and Guidry's 18 strikeouts. Then I moved to CT. The game I missed that I was supposed to be at...Dave Righetti's no-hitter against the Red Sox...the Mianus River bridge collapsed and I couldn't get into the City.
@@howie9751I guess you missed the pine tar game too, I'm very disappointed
@@psyclonejack1523 It sounds like losses from before you were even born really haunted you. What about 1957? 1960? 1964? Do those bother you a lot too or not as much because it wasn't the Dodgers?
I know for me generally if it happened before I was a fan then it doesn't affect me as much. 1960 I was always fascinated by because it seemed like the perfect movie script. Also I was born in 83 so all that stuff felt like such a bygone era that I couldn't connect with it the same way you could.
Another question I have. You know the Yankees always beat the Dodgers in so many World Series in the 40s and 50s. Why agonize over '55? Did you feel a certain responsibility to make sure you beat them every time and never let em up once? Because I can sorta remember a situation in my lifetime that was similar to that which was also pretty upsetting in 2004. And yeah, I did feel there was a responsibility to 'maintain the curse' so to speak. Do you see 1955 and 2004 as very similar?
Two of those seats, box seat set are firmly ensconced in my TV room!!!!!!!!!!! They were on the first base side.....
These was truly state-of-the-art photos for the era. Worthy of a true Major League Baseball classic.
Awesome vid. As a 47 year old Mets fan I wish I would have seen the old Yankee stadium. Also Ebbetts Field,Polo Grounds, Old Madison Square Garden. These old buildings were cool!
August 1988. I saw the Yankees vs Orioles. My father took me on my birthday. Told me that we were going to Belmont Park. We got off the Deegan Parked the car and said " I gotta do something I'll be right back." He dame back to our car with 4 Yankee tickets to the non alcoholic family section. I thought those were the best sears ever. I miss you Poppa.
What's a non alcoholic family section?
herb petrillo think about it.
@@herbpetrillo163 In laymen terms, a section for non- alcoholic families. Don't ask me what they are
Was that the season they started like 0 and 99 ?
You used to be able to exit via the outfield. I walked on the same field as Babe, Lou, DiMag and Mick!
So much better before the renovation.
Hard to believe they tore it down. It was Yankee Stadium!
I was at the last game played at Comiskey Park and it was sad as hell knowing it was the last time.
it had to be torn down it was old outdated and impossible ti upkeep
@@SuperPhilly5 Correct
And speaking from experience, it was very crammed
I was part of a baseball tour group back in '96. Our bus drove by Comiskey Park on our way to Wrigley Field. I can see why so many White Sox fans were disappointed when it opened in '92.
Didn't think they would ever tear down Yankee Stadium
Are you kidding me??? They tore town this classic stadium, The House That Ruth Built, laden with baseball history, without so much as a whimper. Where were the real Yankee fans when that happened???
The old stadium was fine except for the small outdated bathrooms
@@briandonovan7368 Are you claiming to favor flushing history down the drain for new bathrooms??? Gimme a break...
@@acousticshadow4032 I didn't say tear down the stadium for bigger bathrooms! I said the old stadium was fine except for the small bathrooms!!!!!!!!!give you a break? Wtf you smoking guy!
And the old stadium is long gone anyway
I attended Bat Day in 1972 & 73 when I was 10 & 11. Nothing like it.
I was there in '73 and got a Blomberg bat!
In 1973 I received a Ron Swoboda bat and traded it for a Bobby Murcer bat with the kid sitting behind me.
@@anthonydambrosio8531 ...that kid was probably not playing with a full deck,...or a Mets fan,....probably both....
It was a tough negotiation. My father wound up giving that kid 75 cents, a bag of peanuts, a soda and the Swoboda bat. A 4 for 1 swap. In 1972 they gave me a Frank Baker bat. Baker was out of baseball in '72. That's my luck.
@@anthonydambrosio8531 Good negotiation by your dad!....I'd have given all that plus a Yankee Yearbook, which was a least a dollar..
That was my dream to visit the stadium that Ruth built. Wish I could back in time to do it. Now that I'm 80, time is running out, plus that original ballpark no longer exists.
My goodness that ballpark had character.
I t also had a brace that needed to support the scoreboard
Beautiful video and music. Thanks for posting! My first time to the Stadium was May 22, 1966...Yanks take two from the Twins, defending A.L. Champs! We sat in the first row of the right field mezzanine, in fair territory (Section 33?). Joe Pepitone and Jake Gibbs hit home runs that landed in the lower deck, right below us. Great memories!
My first game was April 30, 1967. Mick hit one left handed and one right handed walk off in game 1 vs Angels. Whitey Ford with the win. Dropped the night cap. Attendance 47,000 cap day crowd. Sat upper reserve sect 22. Your section 33 is correct. Last section before the bullpen and bleacher in right field.
My first game was in 1972 on a father and son night.
As a young kid I saw the Yankees play the White Sox in July, 1961. Being from the Pittsburgh area, it was an amazing experience. I was there with my dad and uncle. I remember riding the subway to the game. The subway car rocking like crazy as it flew underground in the darkness. Players I saw: White Sox (Aparicio, Landis, Minoso, Lollar, Fox, Don Larsen), Yankees (Richardson, Kubek, Maris with 2HRs, Mantle with 1HR, Howard, Skowron, Boyer, and Ford pitched) And how many Hall of Famers were on the field that day? Lots. Nellie Fox had gone 3 for 3 when he came to bat for the last time in the game. The fans gave him a special ovation as he stepped up. Pretty dang cool. Never forgot it. It was respect for a great player.
As a 22 year old orioles fan, I can honestly say this video adds almost a ghostly and eerie vibe to the old stadium. But I have to say I’ve never wanted to go back in time more too see this stadium with my own eyes.
My first game at Yankee Stadium: August, 1962. My first major league game ever. I was eleven. My father and I sat in the left field upper deck, just off third base. The Yanks beat Boston, 13-3. Ralph Terry bested Bill Mumboquette. AL Rookie of the Year Tom Tresh hit a home run. Eddie Bressoud was thrown out at home trying to stretch a triple into an inside the park home run. And the Red Sox rookie left fielder lost a ball in the sun and dropped it. I missed it because everyone was standing. That rookie was named Carl Yastremski. I was in awe of the huge Stadium despite the obstructed views of the field. good grief, that was a ballpark! I recall really liking the Red Sox road uniforms too.
it truly was the cathedral of baseball shame it no longer stands!!!
To destroy ANY cathedral is a crime.
yankee stadiums last game was in 1973
An engineering work of art, the original Yankee Stadium. Intimidating to the opposition, deep, deep outfield in left to right center, high walls and screen across the top. Originally 490 FT to dead centerfield with no fence. Reduced to a mere 461 FT to centerfield just left of the monuments in fair play. According to to Baseball historians no hitter ever officially carried the centerfield wall for a homerun in 40 years! You could pitch away from power hitters and keep the ball in the park. The foul lines were short at 301 FT. to left and 296 Ft to right. In the 1963 World Series Game 1 top of 2nd inning huge Frank Howard hit a rocket to dead center and the ball hit a couple feet short of the wall and he got a double, then Johnny Roseboro hit a blooper down the right field line and the wind blew it around the flagpole for a cheap 3 run homer! That gave Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers, at the top of his game a a 4-0 lead in the 2nd inning. I only saw pictures and read history growing up in LA, but hearing you guys stories, it must have bee something to see a game at this magnificent ballpark. Thank you for sharing you words eye view.
on august 12,1964 mick hit a ball to dead cf that went over the black background off of ray herbert. same day mel stottlemyre made his debut.
If Judge and Stanton had to hit in a Yankee Stadium that had the same dimensions as the 1960's their numbers would be quite different. I really feel for Moose Skowron, DiMaggio, and more recently Dave Winfield and Don Baylor.
My brothers and I enjoyed our childhood growing up ten minutes from the Stadium we greeted the players at the entrance.
That’s awesome. What players
Sweet! should have kept it the way it was like Wrigley field and Fenway!
You're so right. They could have renovated it. Greed wins again.
They did renovate it! It cost $100 million. Yet Kansas City built two beautiful new places for less than half that: Arrowhead Stadium and Royals Stadium (one of baseball's most beautiful ballparks). Why did it cost so much to simply remodel Yankee Stadium?
@@davidlafleche1142 Unions
@@davidlafleche1142 arrowhead still looks modern....so does royals park..
royals stadium is still gorgeous...
@oliverthecat666 What does Bloomberg have to do with anything?
my first game was 1949, a playoff for the pennant on the last game of the season with Boston i believe Yankees won 5-2. Dom and joe DiMaggio played centerfield.
Nice video & tribute to the grand old Yankee Stadium.
Was there many many times it was nothing like walking from under the grandstand and seeing that beautiful Green Field
Absolute crime that they demolished that iconic piece of American history. I’m glad I got to attend games there in the 60s and 70s
I miss this stadium!!!
Thanks for this video. My mother, uncle, their cousin grew up poor in brooklyn. My grand aunt and great grandmother used to save all week to tale them to baseball games. In the cheap bleacher seats. Wish I could see pictures of those people in that seating area…and that era up closer. Yankees Stadium was the only MLB stadium I ever went to in NYC, as a kid but that was 1981.
I chuckle somewhat when I hear modern baseball announcers remark about how 'far' it is to hit a homerun in some ballparks (like they talk about the 'new' left field dimension in Oriole Park at Camden Yards). Yankee stadium had insane dimensions except for down the left field line and the right field porch. If you weren't a super pull-hitter, you had a long way to go by today's standards. (Same could be said about the old Polo Grounds).
Still the greatest of all ballparks. The running track was initially meant to be a 1/4 mile running track to hold track and field events. Don't know if any were ever held.
I am heartbroken that they replaced The Historic Yankee Stadium.
I believe it should have been turned into a museum, the players that called this stadium home. GREAT ONES Are not around anymore.
Great photos. I like the music too.👌🏾
I remember going as far back as 1971. I use to love seeing the relief pitcher get driven in by golf cart, before it became a custom pinstriped Datsun. They drove along the warning track until they got tired of being pelted and just drove directly from the bullpen over the outfield grass. And for a buck you had a great bleacher seat and for 50 cents more you could sit in General Admission in the upper deck which was behind the support beams.
Good memory. I plead guilty here for throwing peanuts at the Datsun. Banana Nose was the driver. The general admission seats in the upper deck were the last 8 rows. If you got there early, you could sit on the aisle to avoid the beams.
I first went to Yankee Stadium in 1962 as a 7 year old.
Been there countless times since.
The 7th inning clouds of tobacco smoke that hung over the field.... walking onto the field after the game exiting thru the RF bullpen...the CF train.... the monuments in CF, in play.....25 cent scorecard and $1.25 Yankee yearbook.....Bob Shephard announcing the lineups.... standing O's for The Mick just for moving into the on deck circle...
I first went as a 5-6 year old, 1963-4. Ditto all you said! And the el train was just 10-20 cents. Six stops from 183rd to 161st Street!
In 1971 it cost a dollar to sit in the bleachers. I lost count how many times I went.. am now 69 today September 30 2022
CANNOT believe they tore it down!!! Thank God the Red Sox and the Cubs have more integrity to leave their ball parks alone for the most part.
The old stadium was outdated, especially the bathrooms and it was very crammed overall.
Remember there was an incident in 1998 when a chunk of it fell.
Bottom line is that Steinbrenner wanted a new one for a while, and to make additional money in the shops and luxury boxes etc in the new one.
He was offered to renovate it again but he turned it down in order to get a new stadium
Great video cool pictures and good choice for the music
I saw my first game at Yankee in '79. I always wished I could see it before the renovation. This video is about as close as I'll ever get. Thanks so much for posting this.
At least you never experienced sitting behind a steel girder. How they justified selling obstructed view seats, I can’t understand.
My grandfather told me that the tragedy isn't that the old Yankee Stadium isn't there anymore. It's that the new park has $2,000/game seats. He's been priced out of the new place for life.
Amen. I'm a grandpa now. Can't afford to bring my grandkids.
Days of my youth.,.going to orig YS w my Dad n brother.
I was at the last game in 1973.. The fans tore that place apart. It was scary for a 10 year old kid..
Photography of the 60s and 70s was so beautiful!
my favorite stadium.
This place and Memorial Stadium. If I make it to heaven I thank the LORD for letting me go.there to see ballgames.
1st NYY game was 4/30/67, a cap day Sunday doubleheader vs LA Angels.
Game 1 Whitey Ford starts but got a no decision. Mickey hit 2. 1 LH. 1 RH including a 3 run game winning walk off HR in the bottom of the 10th. Hal Reniff got the W.
What a thrill as a 10 YR old.
Also, attended Mickey Mantle Day 6/8/69. Father's Day. Sect 23 lower box seats. Iconic day. I found us in the UA-cam video as Mickey passes by in the golf cart waving.
No stadium will ever match this one!
The caption says Old Yankee Stadium 1923 to 1973. However, it seems as if none of the shots show Yankee Stadium in its early years before 1937 when there was no third deck behind right field and when the deepest part of the stadium was 490 feet.
great music for a classic timepiece
Some ball parks just have the feel of baseball. The original Yankee Stadium did, Fenway Park does (despite a few flaws), and today it's Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Today's parks seem to miss that feel, they're more concerned with looking good in pictures, having the best concessions and such. The upper decks are a high up and a long way from the field. I love seeing Oracle Park on TV but can't really see it as a place to play baseball. MIller Park? What were they thinking? I'd rather have the flaws of the original Yankee Stadium than sit with binoculars in the upper deck of Citizens Bank Park.
The beginning music is making me want to listen to “To Live Is To Die”.
Look at that short right field porch, tailor made for Ruth, and later Maris. I also like the four fungo circle look. Now parks have no fungo circles.
Here is a interesting fact. Ruth hit more homeruns on the road than in Yankee stadium. This really astounding when you take the fact of the short right field porch.
NOW THAT WAS THE STADIUM OF BASEBALL NEVER SHOULD OF BEEN TORNED DOWN IT WAS A LANDMARK.
nice response, well played
Thing I hate most about the new stadium is they built it on Macombs Dam Park, so we lost the view of the Bronx County courthouse beyond centerfield. I always felt that view was part of the ambience of Yankee Stadium as much as the stadium itself. Also, you can't see it as clearly from the Harlem River Drive. I always liked riding past it in the evening when it was lit up, and the way the lights reflected in the water.
Great Historic Document
They really did a pretty good job trying to make the new one look like the original. Even though I would have loved for them to stay where they were
I actually agree with this comment. Most see the current Yankee Stadium as being too sterile, I think it represents at the very least, a real effort to replicate the original ballpark, but with a modern spin, so to speak. People have to realize that you won't get a brick for brick replica of old Yankee Stadium. But they didn't just throw up a steel and glass structure and call it a day. They paid homage to their past with their new ballpark. Is it perfect? No. But perfection is an unfair standard.
Two different parks. The second one was around long enough to have its own character. Also fans were closer to the field. You cannot replicate the original. It was one of a kind
Last year I attended a game at Yankee Stadium. Took a lot of pictures. Yankee Stadium is a magnificent structure, a baseball museum. Of course, with a digital camera. Yet, these pictures that I saw right now make my pictures pale in comparison.
Awesome job my friend, apparently you and I are around the same age so those pics although not yours were from the time I remember my Stadium...
"Our" stadium was a dump, Herbie
Time to grow up
First game I went to was a Saturday night game late 1967 season. I was eight. I still have the image burned in my brain walking out of the tunnel on the 3rd base side. It was a Cathederal. A grand manor house in its waning years as the once great team fell. Years later I found an old box score. Attendance was under 3,000 many with free tickets through the parochial school system. Mantle was 1 for 3 a single and a base on ball. The renovated stadium at least could say it stood on hallowed ground.
I had the same experience in 1969 as a 10 year old!....coming out of the right field lower box tunnel and seeing that magnificence!....also seeing my favorite player, Bobby Murcer shagging flyballs!
@@johnsain Great times. I remember the ushers still wore the red coats and hats. One thing about President Mike Burke was Bat day you got a real little league bat, a cloth hat with the NY stitched in and an official MLB baseball.
@@tomb4575 Wow!...I didn't realize the ball I got on Ball Day was official MLB...too bad it's long gone....but I do have a real one, a foul ball I caught in the upper deck behind home plate with one hand....Yep,...I got a big cheer at Yankee Stadium in 1986...even a "sign him up" chant!
How could the people of New York let them tear down the house that Babe built? It should have stood as long as there was baseball in America. It was a part of the history and very fabric of our country.
One word: Greed
You are not very realistic are you
First Ebbets Field, then the Poli Grounds and then YS. "Progress" usually outweighs historic value.
Newark South Ward Little League used to take us there....'67/68/69. We went the day before Mickey Mantle Day in '69. It was becoming a dump more & more each year, but, it was the Yankees man, and a fun bus trip to NY.
and the Mick! he was so cute!
Awesome!!!
Sad but true, the old Stadium’s structure was becoming untenable. I wish that it wasn’t true as I really loved the old one. My first visit ever was in 1968. I was there on the day our astronauts landed on the moon.(Washington Senators were in town.)
I was there after the renovation on opening day. Nothing like it in the world. But let’s be fair, the new stadium is also awesome and I love that the peculiar playing field is the same. I hope that this one lasts as long as the old one did!
Nice pics and all, but none were WITHOUT the monuments in center field. The Stadium was built in 1923 , and Ruth was playing (no monument yet) Gehrig was about to join Ruth and Miller Huggins was the Manager at the time. He died in 1929 and the first monument was erected to him. When Gehrig died, his monument went up in 1941 and Ruth's death led to his monument (making the third) was erected in 1949. So there are no pics older than 1949 in this very nice collection.
Hard to believe, but there is very little color TV footage of the original Yankee Stadium remaining. Someone posted excerpts from opening day 1970, also Mickey Mantle day 1969, and Mickey Mantle’s 500th career homeruns in 1967.
I was at Mickey Mantle Day on 6/8/69. We had seats around 10 rows behind the Yankee dugout. Went with my cousins and my younger brother. Bought the tickets before they announced when the Mick's day would be - how's that for luck? What an incredible day, standing and cheering for the Mick, my first sports hero, for around 10 minutes. I'm now 66 and feel pretty safe in saying that will be the greatest sporting event I will ever attend in my lifetime.
5:04 has to have been an extremely rare occurrence: a DH game (I'm assuming that's what the "B" means) in the pre-renovation Stadium. Thanks for posting this; I'm a Sox fan, but my earliest memory of the Stadium is Joe Garagiola doing a grand tour of it on NBC when it reopened after the reno, and I've always wondered what the original really looked like. Love that scoreboard!
They played 81 games with the DH at Old Yankee Stadium. Looks like Celerino Sanchez was the DH for The Bombers on this day, Ben Oglivie for the BoSox.
@@rmartin7558 Date of the game was 4/15/73. Using the great info from Retrosheet.org, scoreboard provides the dates of the following: 1:29 - 8/3/68. 1:46- 8/9/72 - between games of a doubleheader.
Greed ruined everything.
I got to go to just one game at the original stadium: 9/2/1973, a 1-0 loss to Baltimore. I was 7 & it was my first game in person. Was in the upper deck with my parents & there were hippies next to us smoking pot. So it my first exposure to that too, lol. After that, there were just 11 more games there, so made it just in time.
old timers day july 1966 i saw my idol mickey mantle hit a grand slam homer . batting righty he hit one into the upper deck in right field
I was there the same day and witnessed the same thing. It was my first game ever at Yankee Stadium. Went with my Dad. Thanks for the memory!
In the later years there's a little press box - it looks like one - hanging from the upper deck in right field, at the extreme edge. A pretty odd placing for a press box; I wonder what the story was on that. Maybe for football games?
ABoxOfBroken8Tracks Yes that press box was for football. I saw John Mayberry of the Royals hit a homer into that box.
Ebbetts field yankee stadium the polo grounds are three stadiums to take in a game if i had a time machine
home.....
Are there any pictures from game 6 or game 7 of the 2004 ALCS???
Nice Job! Love is Blue - perfect
+Rob Buchwald Yep, Love is Blue was the second song, Classical Gas was the first.
Is that the press box for football at 1:37?
What's the 1st song in this video (ie. the one before Love is Blue)?
CLASSASICAL
CLASSICAL GAS
What is the name of the second song played?
The photo at 5:15 is of a ceremony at the Stadium in 1965 at which Joe DiMaggio showed his undying love for Marilyn Monroe by ignoring Bobby Kennedy when Bobby tried to shake his hand, thus leaving The Man Who Would Be President with some well deserved egg on his face.
Joe D was know for his attitude. He looked down on Mickey Mantle even to the day he died. www.si.com/mlb/2017/05/12/yankees-joe-dimaggio-mickey-mantle-grudge-cancer-never-let-go
Eggs can be very filling !
Nice photos. But at the 3:23 mark, that isn't 1968. The seats are "sea foam green." That was their color from 1957 to 1966. In 1968, they were royal blue. Pretty good photo of the sea-foam green seats, though. Thanks.
Nothing like the old Yankee stadium.
2:07 During introductions, The Yankee Clipper walked right past Bobby Kennedy, ostensibly in reference to the Kennedy's relationship with his former wife.
Simply awesome collage, at 3:19 who is the NYY left-hander, what decade/year vs DET?
Not sure, but there are clues in the photo that might help, especially with folks who have great knowledge of the Stadium's history, plus using the great info in Retrosheet.org and Baseball Reference.com. That's Phil Rizzuto playing shortstop, so the game can be no later than 1956. The Scooter looks pretty solid in that picture so would have to think the game is in the final years of his career. No batter's eye curtain in CF, so that's another clue...when did they start using that? If memory serves, they used it intermittently up until the 60's then it was a permanent fixture? Players and fans are in short sleeves, so it's a warm, sunny day. Can the billboards provide more clues? Runner on second and lefty batter up. Anyone recognize the runner or the second base umpire? ...I did some more digging on Retrosheet: Could be July 18, 1956, 7th inning, Game 2 of doubleheader - Mickey McDermott on the mound, Harvey Kuenn on second base, and Charley Maxwell up at bat. That was only home game Rizzuto played versus Detroit that year.
Thanx- 1956
You're welcome! While I'm pretty sure of the date, I made a slight mistake in my commentary...in that photo, a small slice of the batter's eye curtain is visible on the extreme right of the photo. I thought the monuments were in dead center, but they are actually left of dead center.
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You nailed it.. there are captioned pictures backing you up on the date and pitcher MIckey McDermott. Nice job replaybb.
463 to center
The old was showing its age.One witness this when going to upper deck.
Wasn't it originally 460' to CF?
Center field 463ft. !!! Right center 433ft.!! ... now it's a college stadium 😠!! The ruined it.
It’s actually called Macombs Dam Park, and the original old footprint contains a full sized field, with a softball and Little League diamonds situated in what was the right field stands and the left-center stands. It’s open to the view of passers-by as you walk towards the new stadium. I always visualize the past greats positioned as I walk parallel to the former left field line, from the train station to the new field.
wish they would stop calling new park Yankee Stadium. call it Yankee Stadium II.
I was there when the tarp went up at 3:00 I believe it was a Friday night twi night double header against the KC A's, summer of 1967. During the first game a big summer storm came from nowhere, and it was wind, rain and chaos for half an hour. I never thought i would see pictures from that night ever again, please correct me if I am thinking of the wrong night.
In one of the pictures, it looks like there are fans on the tarp and field. I wonder if they called for fans to help when the tarp got out of control.
Yes the tarp went almost completely vertical and Phil Rizzuto was going nuts. Rizzuto, White and Messer were the greatest broadcast trio ever
Der Ort an dem am 19. Juni 1936 Max Schmeling Joe Louis in der 12. Runde durch K. O. bezwang und zur einer deutschen Legende wurde.
What music is this?
The first song is "classical gas"
No shit, Sherlock
Baseball meant more to people back then.
I was never a Yankees fan here in NY but have to admit it was a cute miniature stadium just like the new one. There’s a rumor that a player once bunted a home run into the short porch in right field. I don’t know if it’s true though.
Someone should've bunted you into a dumpster.
You're dumber than a bag of doorknobs. The right center power alley was 407. It was 463 to dead center, and 457 to left center. 402 to straight away left.
Go play in traffic.
Too bad they have passed - you could have asked Joe DiMaggio and Thurman Munson what they thought of the Stadium's dimensions when it came to home runs.
Can't believe Toyota was advertising way back then.