Yankee Stadium Opens - Decades TV Network

[@Jiltedin2007]

As a Red Sox Fan, looking back at when "The House that Ruth Built" was demolished in 2010, it was a very sad moment to see a stadium of that magnitude be taken down. If anything, it should have stayed as a Historical Landmark by the United States Government.

[@ryanmeyers5333]

The new stadium is great its not bad. But the atmosphere at the old stadium was something else. You walked into Yankee stadium and you felt the history in the walls as you sat in your seat. Nothing else will ever compare

[@Jiltedin2007]

@@ryanmeyers5333 I agree with you 100% there!

[@TheBatugan77]

Yanks fan here. I visited Fens in 1979. Red Sox & KC. Terrific. Everyone was nice to us New Yawkers too! Glad you were able to preserve Fenway.

[@vfrexup]

Utter madness to tear that down !

[@Checkmate34851]

How could baseball be stupid enough to tear down that house

[@tomb4575]

While Penn Station fell to lack of maintenance, Yankee Stadium, The Polo Grounds, Ebbets, Shea, Giants Stadium even MSG was because of revenue streams and the snobbish wants of fans and ball players are torn down with nearly a protest

[@miguelrivera6793]

It's all NYC who is at fault. Us Yankees fans are still fucking pist.

[@RYMAN1321]

It was outdated and obsolete, not to mention very crammed feeling. And was falling apart, especially after that piece fell in 1998. But it was also all about getting more money, in which the new one has more shops, a museum etc. And at least the site is now Heritage Field so it got some preservation

[@ippolit4262]

​@@RYMAN1321yeah but the crowd roared, the old stadium had way better acoustics way more intimidating for visiting teams to play there..

[@Erik0207]

@@miguelrivera6793dude are you serious? Pist? It’s pissed!

[@joseguzman5715]

Crazy how we had so much history in that park and now its a parking lot or some shit like that smh

[@Kevin-it4fh]

Nah, it's a practice field now. And better off creating new history than just clinging onto the past.

[@kiryu2281]

@@Kevin-it4fh I’m glad that it’s a practice field instead of being a parking lot like the fate Shea Stadium faced

[@mattssportsentertainment6989]

@@kiryu2281 shea stadium was a dump the old Yankee stadium was the greatest stadium in the world

[@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii]

Wow... so, that place, before ground was broken, was a dilapidated, seemingly abandoned lumber yard! To tell you the truth, the photo of that yard brought me a little bit of sorrow; one, just to look at the condition it was in at that time--I mean, look at just the ad at 1:28; and two, to know that this yard would become home to one of the most iconic sports venues ever in the world--home to SOOOOO many historical sports and cultural events--only then to be taken down, like it was just another 1950's-1960's era cookie-cutter stadium! At least, after it was gone, this area that was once a dilapidated lumber yard is now home to a kids' playground, and is still not abandoned, unlike in 1921-22. But the new stadium will never be like the old one, and I can tell you that as a former NYY fan.

[@Jerry-p3v]

Bill Kurtis was there in 1923 to cover it.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

Narrated by Bill Curtis

[@Jiltedin2007]

Yankee Stadium was demolished in 2010, the Yankees played their final season on “The House that Ruth Built” in 2008.

[@mosesberkowitz3298]

Lousy ending-- The old Stadium wasn't simply "torn down". George Steinbrenner, the owner, wanted to make the Yankees a new home before he died (at age 90, I think). The new Stadium he built is almost a carbon copy of the old one, but with modern electrical and plumbing. The old Stadium was dismantled, not destroyed, and many historic pieces were purchased by fans. The new Stadium was built right next door to the old one.

[@moboutmen]

They should've made the Original Yankee Stadium a second Baseball Hall Of Fame before modernizing it in the 70s.

[@TheBatugan77]

They could have made a museum out of the structure, and still use the land for commercial purposes.

[@krp2nyte]

Should've built the new stadium on the old field at least.

[@MarkReda-hy5ey]

I live In Saratoga Ny it would be the day they ever thought about remodeling or removing the horse track. The oldest sport venue in America.

[@raydurazo5930]

What video is this from ?

[@TheBatugan77]

Correct

[@walkergillette3918]

THE OLD BAT, YOU MEAN HILLARY CLINTON?

[@guss3840]

FRED ROGERS no

[@Weensx]

You are very small. 🤏

[@shiloh6519]

And then they tore it down for no good reason.

[@RYMAN1321]

It was incredibly out of date and obsolete, and starting to fall apart (not to mention an incident in 1998 when a piece of concrete fell), not to mention it costs more to renovate (they already had one in the 70’s) and you can only renovate a place like that for so long. Steinbrenner wasn’t going to fund another renovation, he wanted a new one for years prior, from what I found those talks also date back to 1998.

[@TheBatugan77]

​@@RYMAN1321 Quit your bloviating blowhard blowfest. Before I staple your mouth shut.

[@thomasstolfi665]

How do you destroy a place like Yankee Stadium. For the money they spent to build a new one. They could have fixed anything that needed it. The new one doesn’t even come close. To what was destroyed. Which to this longtime BB fan is a shame. So much sporting history there it’s not even funny. It’s sad! All that BB history doesn’t resonate at the new one. Especially the so called voice of the team today. Who has no idea what he’s talking about. The worst sports caster in the history of sports period.

[@McShibby10]

Destroyed in 2010 and they will not win another world series again. The King of Crash Curse

[@ItsHeavyHitterNation]

@@McShibby10the new stadium opened in 09 the old stadium was already destroyed and the Yankees won the series that year as well….

[@rentslave]

I guess that the Mob hadn't yet gotten that deeply into the construction scam in 1920.32 million,yeesh!