"Its gone"

This past weekend the last series was played at Yankee stadium between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore orioles. In the next upcoming season the Yankees are planned to move to their newly mad ball park costing over an estimated 1 billion dollars. Yankee stadium is very old and has seen some of the greatest games ever inside its walls. The Yankees are arguably the most storied franchise in baseball history. Over the years the Yankees have played in 21% of the World Series games, and have had 44 hall of fame players.

I thought “why would a ballpark with so much history just be taken down?”. I was shocked when I heard they weren’t keeping any old historic pieces, and that they were selling them for funding for the new park. I had to think about this decision again and I did I came up with an answer to this. The Yankees have one of the largest fan followings in baseball so they needed another stadium, the other stadium was almost 100 years old, and George Steinbrenner always needs the best things. So in the end I realized that the decision made was strictly business by the Yankee’s front office in order to keep up the interest in their team.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/the_bonus/09/18/yankee.stadium/1.html