An Omen for the Yankees?
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Mother Nature rained on the Yankees’ parade today. Their opener versus Toronto, which starts the regular season, and also their last in Yankee Stadium, was postponed on account of the weather.
Regardless of the end result, there’ll be mixed feelings for the team and their fans this season (as it will be for their cross-town rivals at Shea, playing their last season in the soon-to-be demolished Shea stadium). By this time next year, 85 years’ worth of baseball history will be well on its way to demolition, in favor of a new ballpark just across the street.
Both Shea and the House that Ruth Built join a long line of classic ballparks consigned to the dust heap of history: Veterans Stadium, Busch, Three Rivers Stadium, Riverfront Stadium, and the Kingdome. Both fields’ “replacements” will carry over architectural elements from the older parks, and, as Derek Jeter alluded to in one interview, the ghosts of seasons past. (more…)