Category Archive: Yankee Stadium Essays

Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: America's First Modern Ballpark, edited by Tara Krieger and Bill Nowlin
Yankee Stadium 1923-2008: America's First Modern Ballpark, edited by Tara Krieger and Bill Nowlin

The Bronx Always Beckoned

The headline in the March 13, 1903, edition of the New York…

Yankee Stadium: The Giants’ Greatest Mistake

White Construction Company signed on as general contractor…

Phil Schenck: Yankee Stadium’s First Groundskeeper

Babe Ruth pitches in to help the grounds crew in The House…

Whitey Witt: The First Yankee Hitter to Come to the Plate at Yankee Stadium

Whitey Witt batted .301 as a Yankee, from 1922-1925. (National…

When Harry Met the Bronx Bombers: The History of the Yankee Stadium Concessions

Harry M. Stevens, shown at left with Yankees owner Jacob…

The Negro Leagues East-West All-Star Game and The Two Games Held at Yankee Stadium

The White major leagues held their first All-Star Game on July…

Satchel Paige at Yankee Stadium

In his four appearances at Yankee Stadium with the 1952 St.…

Lou Gehrig’s Farewell Speech: July 4, 1939

A packed crowd of 61,808 fans heard Lou Gehrig make his “Luckiest…

My Six Decades with the Yankees

This excerpt is from the SABR book, Yankee Stadium 1923-2008:…

Safe at Home: Babe Ruth at ‘The House That Ruth Built,’ 1939-1948

On September 28, 1947, the Bambino made an appearance before…

Yankee Old-Timers Day: A Long-Running Tradition

The 2007 Old-Timers Day included Whitey Ford (16), Yogi Berra…

‘We Were the Only Girls to Play at Yankee Stadium’

The three-inning exhibition between the Chicago Colleens…

Bats, Balls, Boys, and Dreams: The Hearst Sandlot Classic at Yankee Stadium, 1959-1965

Jim Spencer had 36 major-league home runs at Yankee Stadium…

Live From Yankee Stadium: A Brief History of the Yankees on Radio

Radio broadcasts of Yankees games in the 1920s were sparse,…

Yankee Stadium: The House That Ruth (and Unitas) Built!

In my 40 years working at the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum in…

Yankee Stadium on Film

The Detective (1968), starring Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick,…

Silent Icons: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Yankee Stadium

1928 was a phenomenal year for the New York Yankees. Babe…

The House That Oratory Built: Great Speeches at Yankee Stadium

All baseball fans are familiar, if not from the movie, then…

A Number 7 Special: Four Yankee Stadium Celebrations of Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle’s wife, Merlyn, and eldest son Mickey, Jr.…

Yankee Stadium and the Renovation of ’76

The 1976 renovation of Yankee Stadium removed the columns…

Of Monuments And Men: The Story of Monument Park at Yankee Stadium

The renovation of Yankee Stadium created Monument Park as…

Eleven Masterpieces: Yankee Stadium’s No-Hitters

The number 11 has a prominent place in human history, both…
Old Yankee Stadium

Black Baseball at Yankee Stadium: The House That Ruth Built and Satchel Furnished (with Fans)

Editor's note: This article appeared originally in Black Ball:…