82 Years Ago Today
On 18 April 1923 the first game was played at the newly built Yankee Stadium. The Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1. In the third inning Babe Ruth hits a ball into the right field bleachers, baptizing the stadium with its first homerun.
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And here is a more recent picture of the stadium, which was rennovated in the mid-1970s, from Yankee Tradition.com:
and a shot of the site prior to the contruction of the stadium in 1922
Topic: Baseball, New York Yankees
And here is a more recent picture of the stadium, which was rennovated in the mid-1970s, from Yankee Tradition.com:
and a shot of the site prior to the contruction of the stadium in 1922
Topic: Baseball, New York Yankees
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