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In , the Rice tenant won its second, consecutive World Series. Rice held onto the property after that for nine years--during which time the Yankees never again won a pennant; never played in a World Series. Was there some kind of Rice Sports Jinx at work there? The City of New York acquired the property by eminent domain in , prior to the major remodeling job that was put into the stadium.

Constructed adjacent to the old Yankee Stadium, groundbreaking occurred on August 16, A new era in the history of the Yankees began on April 16, when they played their first game at the new Yankee Stadium against the Cleveland Indians.

The stadium consists of two separate structures. It features 31, square feet and serves as the concourse before entering the stadium. The interior stadium itself rises over the top of the exterior. From the outside, the structures appear as one building almost identical in materials and design to the original stadium.

Cavernous concourses give way to open spaces with sight lines to the field from nearly every vantage point in the stadium. The signature copper frieze and the lattice work that once rimmed the original stadium roof and was recreated in the outfield of the renovated Yankee Stadium, is now replicated in its original location at the new Yankee Stadium.

Yankee Stadium seats approximately 52, fans as the main grandstand consists of four levels stretching from foul pole to foul pole, with nearly 30, seats in the first two levels.

The third level contains 56 luxury suites and the fourth level features a split level upper deck. On February 6, , the New York Yankees announced the purchase of ten acres of property in the west Bronx. Yankee Stadium was a gigantic horseshoe shaped triple-decked ballpark that was the first to be called a stadium. Countless articles have been written by countless historians bringing forth every aspect of the stadium's history.

Harvey Frommer even once described its seat parts in great detail, "There were 10, upper-grandstand seats and 14, lower grandstand seats were fixed in place by , individual steel castings on which , pieces of maple lumber were fastened by more than a million screws.

As for me, I'll play right field in the old Stadium, protecting the short porch gallantly the way Ruth, Henrich and Maris did.



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