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Yankee Stadium was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball parks to be given the lasting title of stadium.

Baseball teams typically played in a park or a field.

The word stadium deliberately evoked ancient Greece, where a stade was a unit of measure — the length of a footrace ; the buildings that housed these footraces were called stadia.

Yankee Stadium was one of the first to be deliberately designed as a multi-purpose facility.

The field was initially surrounded by a ( misshapen ) running track, which effectively also served as a warning track for outfielders, a feature now standard on all major league fields.

The left and right field bleacher sections were laid out roughly at a right angle, and to the third base stands, to be properly positioned for both track-and-field events and football.

The large electronic scoreboard in right-center field, featuring both teams ' lineups and scores of other baseball games, was the first of its kind.