Yankee Stadium Final Season
On February 6, 1921, the New York Yankees announced the purchase of ten acres of property in the west Bronx. The future home of Yankee Stadium was purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000. On April 18, 1923, “The House That Ruth Built” opened for business.
Yankee Stadium was a gigantic horseshoe shaped triple-decked ballpark that was the first to be called a stadium. Countless articles have been written by countless historians bringing forth every aspect of the stadium’s history. Harvey Frommer even once described its seat parts in great detail, “There were 10,712 upper-grandstand seats and 14,543 lower grandstand seats were fixed in place by 135,000 individual steel castings on which 400,000 pieces of maple lumber were fastened by more than a million screws.”
“I’d give a year of my life if I can hit a home run in the first game in this new park (Yankee Stadium).” said Babe Ruth (who went deep in the third inning of the Opening Day game on April 18, 1923)
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