While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

* 1923 – Yankee Stadium, " The House that Ruth Built ", opens.

The original Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 on 161st Street and River Avenue, a year that saw the Yankeees bring home their first of 27 World Series Championships.

With the famous facade, the short right field porch and Monument Park, Yankee Stadium has been home to many of baseball's greatest players including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

Lorelei Fountain in Joyce Kilmer Park overlooking the original Yankee Stadium ( 1923 ) | Yankee Stadium.

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

The never – landmarked Yankee Stadium, the " House that Ruth Built " and home to the New York Yankees since 1923, has been replaced with a similar-looking ballpark just across 161st Street.

The line entered the pop-consciousness with Game Two of the 1977 World Series, when a fire broke out near Yankee Stadium as the team was playing the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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The 1923 bat which he used to hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923.

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

In the 2003 World Series, the Marlins defeated the heavily favored New York Yankees in six games, winning the sixth game in Yankee Stadium.

Yankee Stadium closed on September 30, 1973 for the two-year facelift.

The empty locker next to current Yankee team captain Derek Jeter's, with Munson's number 15 on it, remained as a tribute to the Yankees ' lost catcher in the original Yankee Stadium until the Stadium closed in 2008.

" Reilly also stated that he did not expect the price of electricity in Vermont to increase if Vermont Yankee closed.

However, the Yankees closed out the series at Yankee Stadium, and the Mariners have not reached the playoffs since.

Yankee Stadium was closed for renovation right after the Yankees finished the 1973 season in October ; it would not reopen until 1976.

A Connecticut Yankee opened on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre ( which was demolished in 1954 ) on November 3, 1927 and closed on October 27, 1928, running for 421 performances.

A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart: `` my girl is none of your one-horse girls.

Mark Twain, in the following century, used the word in this sense in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, published in 1889.

Perhaps the most pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song " Yankee Doodle ", which was popular during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) as, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, it was broadly adopted by American rebels.

When Yankee Stadium was reopened in 1976 following its renovation, the plaques and monuments were moved to Monument Park, behind the left-center field fence.

This was until FM broadcasting radio re-emerged in the 1960s ( following FM's initial appearance and disappearance during the 1930s and 1940s-see Yankee Network for more details on early FM broadcasting and a tragic legacy to the Sarnoff story ).

* 7 February — following years of inactivity, American champion Tom Hyer finally returns to the ring and fights Yankee Sullivan at Stillpond Creek in Maryland.

On October 17, following a ceremony in which Burgoyne gave his sword to Gates, only to have it returned, Burgoyne's army ( approaching 6, 000 strong ) marched out to surrender their arms while the American musicians played " Yankee Doodle ".

The following epitaph, said by Billy Martin himself at his number retiring ceremony at Yankee Stadium in 1986, appears on the headstone: I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest.

In March 2011, following the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster, 600 people gathered for a weekend protest outside the Vermont Yankee plant.

Yankee Lake has the following meanings:

The American League canceled its games for the following day out of respect, and the viewing of his casket at Yankee Stadium drew thousands of tearful fans.

This occurred immediately following the ejection of teammate outfielder Rocky Colavito, who had bolted into the stands at Yankee Stadium when he observed a Yankee fan tussling with his father.

The gremlin continues to outsmart Bugs throughout the film, either by kicking him, clobbering some part of Bugs with the monkey wrench, or otherwise giving him grief, taunting Bugs following two of his " hits " on Bugs by " laughing " the first seven notes of Yankee Doodle once both are aboard the aircraft.

On January 23, 2012, Thunderbean Animation released a restored collection of Noveltoons with the following cartoons: Cilly Goose, Suddenly It's Spring, Yankee Doodle Donkey, Scrappily Married, A Lamb in a Jam, Cheese Burglar, Sudden Fried Chicken, The Stupidstitious Cat, The Enchanted Square, Much Ado About Mutton, The Wee Men, Naughty But Mice, Flip Flap, The Bored Cuckoo, Leprechauns Gold, Quack-a-Doodle Doo, Teacher's Pest, Ups an ' Downs Derby, Pleased to Eat You and Saved by the Bell.

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner issued a statement following his death: " Bobby Murcer was a born Yankee, a great guy, very well-liked and a true friend of mine.

Connecticut Yankee Council is divided into the following districts:

The following week he was hospitalized with a bronchial infection, forcing him to miss the final homestand and the AL Division Series against Cleveland, thus ending his streak of 121 consecutive postseason games at Yankee Stadium.

They were discovered at an arts festival by songwriters Bobby Keel and Billy Stone, who helped them record a demo that got the group signed to Warner Bros. Records on July 31, 1984 ; Keel and Stone also contributed " Yankee Don't Go Home " to their self-titled debut album, which appeared the following year.

He was also the featured singer at the Concert of Hope immediately preceding Pope Benedict XVI's Mass at Yankee Stadium in April 2008.

Lincecum was selected to the 2008 MLB All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium but was unable to pitch due to being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.

* With Stadiums Going, Going, Ashes May Be Gone by James Barron, The New York Times, New York edition, October 11, 2008, Page A17, retrieved on October 12, 2008 grieve over ashes smuggled into and left under or over Shea and Yankee stadiums.

During the All-Star festivities at Yankee Stadium, Hamilton crushed a first round home run record in the 2008 Home Run Derby with 28.

This all but sealed the fate of Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees played their final two seasons in the stadium in 2007 and 2008 while the new venue was being built.

After the final game in the Stadium's history was played on September 21, 2008, public tours of Yankee Stadium continued until November 23, 2008.

On November 8, 2008 former Yankees Scott Brosius, Paul O ' Neill, David Cone and Jeff Nelson, all members of the 1998 World Series championship team, joined 60 children from two Bronx based youth groups Youth Force 2020 and the ACE Mentor Program in ceremoniously digging up home plate, the pitcher's mound pitching plate ( rubber ) and the surrounding dirt of both areas and transporting them to comparable areas of new Yankee Stadium.

Monument Park remained there until the stadium's closing in 2008 ; after the new Yankee Stadium opened, the retired numbers, plaques, and monuments were moved into a new Monument Park in the new ballpark.

In 2008, Winfield participated in both the final Old Timer's Day ceremony and Final Game ceremony at Yankee Stadium.

That scheduling set it up so the 2008 game would be held in the scheduled final season at the American League's Yankee Stadium ( New York ).

Following the all-star game at Yankee Stadium in 2008 ( the stadium's final season ), the stadium joined Cleveland's old Cleveland Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium prior to its demolition, as the only stadiums to host four Major League Baseball All-Star Games.

* The most RBIs ( in a single game ) by a designated hitter was nine by the New York Mets ' Carlos Delgado on June 27, 2008 in an Interleague game at Yankee Stadium.

O ' Neill at Yankee Stadium ( 1923 ) | Yankee Stadium in 2008.

Since his retirement after the 2001 World Series, his number 21 has only been worn once, when relief pitcher LaTroy Hawkins briefly wore the number to start the 2008 season but, on April 16, 2008, Hawkins switched to number 22 in response to the criticism he received by many Yankee fans, all the more suggesting that number 21 may one day be retired for O ' Neill.