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31 unusual facts about Yankee Stadium


1945 Michigan Wolverines football team

On October 13, 1945, the Wolverines lost, 28-7, to Army at Yankee Stadium in New York.

Adolfo Carrión, Jr.

In the end, $800 million will be invested in construction of a new Yankee Stadium with at least 25% of the contracts going to Bronx businesses and at least 25% of the jobs going to residents of the Borough.

In addition, $160 million will be invested in many public parks including a running track, tennis facilities, and softball and baseball fields on parkland around and including the original Yankee Stadium.

After his election as borough president, Carrión helped to bring the City and George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, together for negotiations over the construction of a new Yankee Stadium.

Carrión has helped to bring in funding to improve other parts of the community, including $65 million to be invested in restoration of the pedestrian Highbridge, the oldest bridge in New York City which connects the Bronx to Manhattan, and $91 million to be invested in constructing a new Metro-North Station at the new Yankee Stadium.

Art Regner

Karsch and Regner were heavily promoted and often broadcast from locations, like the Tigers series in Chicago and 2006 play-offs in Yankee Stadium.

Bleacher

The old Yankee Stadium featured black-painted vacant bleachers, nicknamed the black by baseball fans.

Charles R. Meyer

In 1935 against Notre Dame before a capacity crowd of 78,114 in Yankee Stadium, it was Meyer's 41-yard first-quarter TD pass and stellar performance in a 6-6 tie that brought him into the limelight.

Charlie Reliford

Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees fired the sawed-off piece of the bat toward Piazza, causing both benches to empty and reigniting the controversy that had begun the previous July when Clemens had hit Piazza in the head with a pitch during an interleague game at Yankee Stadium.

Cross Bronx Expressway

Immediately after coming off the bridge, there is an interchange with the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87) for Yankee Stadium and points upstate.

David Benke

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he participated in an interfaith worship service for the victims that took place at Yankee Stadium and included high-profile speakers of many different religious denominations.

David Dubinsky

Dubinsky, by his own account, thought that Sigman was too rash and appears to have urged him to call a truce after the left wing-led unions led a campaign to reject a proposed agreement that Sigman had negotiated with the industry in 1925, bringing more than 30,000 members to a rally at Yankee Stadium to call for a one-day stoppage on August 10, 1925.

David Paterson witness tampering and perjury scandals

New York Governor David Paterson in 2010 was accused of witness tampering to protect an aide accused of abusing his girlfriend and lying under oath about whether he intended to pay for 2009 World Series tickets at Yankee Stadium.

Indiana Limestone

New Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively uses Indiana limestone paneling on its exterior facade.

James Bama

He had his first professional sale when he was 15, a drawing of Yankee Stadium in the New York Journal-American.

Jerry Morales

Along with Rick Reuschel, Bruce Sutter, and Manny Trillo, Morales represented the Cubs in the 1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, in which Morales was plunked in the knee by Yankee pitcher Sparky Lyle.

John O'Shea

O'Shea was scheduled to face Spain on 11 June 2013, in The Bronx, New York City at Yankee Stadium but was ruled out of the game over the sudden death of his uncle Jimmy O'Leary in Waterford, Ireland.

Joseph M. McShane

On July 1, 2009, McShane threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium to commemorate the 150th anniversary of baseball at Fordham.

Just the Ticket

He finds his chance in an epiphanic moment; an opportunity to scalp a large stack of tickets to see the hottest show in town --- the Pope at Yankee Stadium.

Kevin De Bruyne

De Bruyne also played the first half against French Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain at Yankee Stadium, New York.

Macombs Dam

The Macombs Dam is memorialized in the name of Macombs Dam Park, which has been re-built as part of the construction of the new Yankee Stadium project.

Mao II

Crowds feature heavily in the book, from the opening crowds of thousands at the mass-wedding at Yankee Stadium, to the crowds living in Tompkins Square Park, to the thousands of mourners at the Ayatollah's funeral as observed on television by Karen.

Pancho Coimbre

That year Coimbre received a tribute in the Yankee Stadium, where hundreds of Puerto Ricans reunited and awarded him a scroll and a ring recognizing his performance.

Properties of concrete

American Standard Testing and Consulting Laboratories, company president Alan Fortich, and five other executives admitted filing false documents on "thousands" of New York construction projects including Yankee Stadium, the Second Avenue subway, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center over 10 years.

Raising the Flag at Ground Zero

The city thought it had possession of the flag after the attack, Rudolph Giuliani and George Pataki signed it, and the flag flew at the New York City Hall, Yankee Stadium, and the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during its service in the Mideast.

Randall Amplifiers

Endorsee Kirk Hammett currently has four of the prototypes, one which he used for the Big 4 show at Yankee Stadium and concerts in India.

Ricardo Cardona

Ricardo Cardona is a Latino chef in New York City who is the executive chef of Lua, Sofrito and Hudson River Cafe as well as the chef for the New York Yankees and their opponents during home games at Yankee Stadium.

Richard V. Gotti

Richard had a strange fascination with grass and would later work as a groundskeeper at Yankee Stadium.

Rob Lathan

He has starred in multiple missions, including getting lost all over Yankee Stadium, giving 2,000 high fives to New York commuters by standing on a stairway next to a subway escalator and as a Ghostbuster going through the NYC Library.

Roger Welch

Beginning in 2003, Welch produced a series of sculptures, watercolors such as Yankee Stadium in Meteor Crater, and videos juxtaposing landscapes or combining geologic formations with contemporary man-made structures.

That's Not Her Style

The song's music video features a live performance of the song at Yankee Stadium.


1973 New York Giants season

With Yankee Stadium undergoing refurbishment after the 1973 baseball season, the Giants played their final game there on September 23, against the Philadelphia Eagles, a 23–23 tie.

Agnes Allen

Her biggest experience was pitching a game in the old Yankee Stadium and meeting the legendary Connie Mack.

Angelo Cruz

Angelo Cruz retired from basketball in 1993, after which he found a job working at Yankee Stadium, where he met and befriended New York Yankees player José Valentín.

Boston Yanks

Team owner Ted Collins, who managed singer Kate Smith, picked the name "Yanks" because he originally wanted to run a team that played at New York City's Yankee Stadium.

Ed Sabol

Its first major contract was to film the 1962 NFL Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers at Yankee Stadium in New York.

Franklin Borough School District

School history records that Babe Ruth, a frequent visitor to the Franklin area, and a group of local engineers oversaw the design of a baseball field whose dimensions matched those of the original Yankee Stadium.

Patricia Courtney

Both teams played exhibition games against each other as they travelled primarily through the eastern half of the United States, while including matches at Yankee Stadium in New York City, Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, and Delorimier Stadium in Montreal.

Ralph Gagliano

Gagliano entered his only MLB game in the ninth inning of a 9–4 loss to Mel Stottlemyre and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.