My son asked today what my feelings were about the end of Yankee Stadium…<\/p>\n
To be honest, I knew it was ending, but did not pay attention to the fact that today was the last game to be played there.<\/p>\n
As a kid, I was a Yankee fan. Why? My father had grown up near Yankee Stadium and was a Yankee fan so we listened to Yankee games on the radio. The same way my son grew up to be a Red Sox fan – he heard and saw Red Sox games all his life.<\/p>\n
The difference being that at some point in my late teens I tuned out baseball and only go back into it when living in Boston – but that team “took” and I am still a Red Sox fan.<\/p>\n
Back to Yankee Stadium… It was the place I saw my first live baseball game at some point in the 50’s. It was an old timers day and so the day started with a game featuring famous players… it was exciting and I loved being there….but never went back as I left NYC.<\/p>\n
Since then I have been to many stadiums that have come and gone. Seems to be the nature of what we call progress. I had been to the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Had also been to the old Madison Square Garden and the old Boston Garden and I think the old St. Louis park.<\/p>\n
My son has seen the Bullets at the old US Air Arena in the burbs and the new Wizards at the Verizon arena in downtown DC. [Had to look up the name to see if it was still MCI – it isn’t.]<\/p>\n
Buildings come and go – even those with historical significance – money speaks and it speaks loudly. If players make millions a year, stadiums must have more seats for corporations so the team owners make a profit…and as corporations come and go so does the name of the building…yikes!<\/p>\n
[Sigh] By the time my son has kids, no one will be able to afford to take a family to ball park and the parks and arenas will continue to be demolished and bigger ones built…<\/p>\n
But Fenway Park and Wrigley Field will always be here….Some cities respect their baseball history and their baseball fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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