Memory of Yankee ghosts can't halt new stadium
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As work begins on the new Yankee   Stadium, critics see the project as symbolically burying more   than just the old ballpark, the baseball shrine known as "The   House that Ruth Built" across the street.
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The New York Yankees couldn't wait to get back to Coors Field after scoring a record 41 times on their first trip to the Colorado Rockies' ballpark five years ago.
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As long as the Yankees and Red Sox play, no matter how long they play tonight at Yankee Stadium, we will remember Game 4 and Game 5 of this American League Championship Series, two games that stand with anything that has ever happened between these two
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However you calculate the costs, it is hard to envision what the $1.2 billion Yankee Stadium will look like.
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Boston players celebrate beating the New York Yankees in game seven of the American League championship series. Photo: AP. They had been reliable caretakers of a cosmic curse, feasting for decades
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The last time the Boston Red Sox visited Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter was hurtling headfirst into the stands, Nomar Garciaparra was sulking in the dugout and New York was pulling away in the AL East.
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The comforts of home got very uncomfortable for the New York Yankees last night. For everybody, really. That enormous sense of superiority that the Yankees and their fans have
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Gustavo Chacin walked into Yankee Stadium for the first time, looked around at the fans and the monuments and the pinstripes, and felt like any other nervous rookie.
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With an unparalleled history of success, vast resources, an exorbitant payroll and a smug, quick-tempered owner, the New York Yankees have long been a &quot;love-hate&quot; franchise.
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With Barry Bonds&#39; historic 700th homer and the subsequent fireworks and hoopla still etched in their minds Friday night at SBC Park, Giants fans still had a moment
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If Barry Bonds doesn't splash his 756th home run into the bay, the record-breaker could come in Hank Aaron's old hometown. Or at the home of the Giants' biggest rival. Or maybe a ballpark where fans usually throw back balls.
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HOUSTON -- There is a touch of history about this National League Championship Series after all. Even in a matchup that did not have a century of ill will behind it, nostalgia showed up in Game 4. St.
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NEW YORK - The hits and runs kept coming, spinning by on the scoreboard as fast as symbols on a slot machine. It wasn't just a rout, it was an epic defeat, the most one-sided in the 101-year history of the New York Yankees...
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There's a new bar on the right-field roof and seats on the left-field wall. In center field, Jimmy Buffett sang "Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude" on the hallowed ground that once was off-limits to concerts. Baseball's oldest stadium retains its charm &#151; The Green Monster, the cozy seating, the crazy fans &#151; while its owners dress it up.
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Derek Jeter has grown up a Yankee, so he has learned never to be surprised. When he visited Legends Field in Tampa, Fla., on Nov. 16 to talk with the principal owner, George Steinbrenner, about the Michigan-Ohio State football game, Jeter was not surprised to see Pedro Mart&#237;nez show up.
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It was a fitting backdrop. With Theo Epstein among the 9,134 fans crammed into a park that once housed Boston minor leaguers, the legend of Red Sox past took on the promise of the future.
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Perhaps it won&#39;t rank in the memory banks of New Yorkers to the extent the 1965, 1977 or 2003 blackouts do, but for the 53,530 in attendance at Yankee Stadium for Friday&#39;s game against the Anaheim Angels, the unplugged ...