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• Sports of The Times: Close to Midnight, Maybe Boston’s Final Ride to the Stadium

  If the Yankees and the Red Sox don’t meet in the playoffs, the Red Sox are coming for the last time to the House That Ruth Built Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 9:47 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC)

• Tickets for New Stadiums: Prices, and Outrage, Escalate

  Even as fans of the Mets, the Yankees, the Giants and the Jets look forward to state-of-the-art stadiums, some are also facing increases in ticket costs during an economic downturn. Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 9:38 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Yankees, New York Giants, New York Jets, New York Mets, Stadiums and Arenas, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Yankee Stadium (NYC), Shea Stadium (NYC)

• Sizing Up Landmark Night for a Baseball Monument

  There will be 64 All-Stars assembled at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, but the venue itself will be studied as intently as any of the players. Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 10:57 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC)

• Sports of The Times: A Sentimental Doubleheader Journey, With Full Police Escort

  The highlight of Friday’s Bronx-Queens doubleheader may not be anything that happens on the field but rather the police escort across the Triborough Bridge. Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 3:59 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Yankees, New York Mets, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC), Shea Stadium (NYC)

• More Red Sox Material May Be Buried at Stadium

  The construction worker who buried a David Ortiz jersey in the cement foundation of the new Yankee Stadium has told friends he buried other Red Sox memorabilia as well. Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 10:23 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Stadiums and Arenas, American League, Ortiz, David

• Voodoo Logic: So Who Cursed Whom With Jersey?

  A construction worker’s attempt to curse the Yankees by burying a Red Sox jersey at the team’s new stadium has raised questions about the nature of the occult. Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:56 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC), Magic and Magicians

• The Big Dig: The Yanks Uncover a Red Sox Jersey

  Construction workers used jackhammers Sunday afternoon to extract a Red Sox jersey that another worker had buried at the site of the new Yankee Stadium. Posted Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:29 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC)

• Cheering Section: A Longtime Tenant in Ruth’s House

  Miriam Chan, who was 6 when her family moved to Manhattan from the Bronx, has been around to celebrate all of the Yankees’ 26 World Series championships. Posted Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:53 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas, Bronx (NYC), Yankee Stadium (NYC)

• Sports of The Times: Lots of Time Left at the Stadium for Nostalgia

  Brace yourself for a season of nostalgia. Everything that happens at Yankee Stadium, or Shea Stadium, for that matter, will be the last of this or the last of that. Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 4:56 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Yankees, New York Mets, Stadiums and Arenas, Yankee Stadium (NYC), Shea Stadium (NYC)

• Sports of The Times: Showing Power, but Weakening a Neighborhood

  George M. Steinbrenner privately financed the new Yankee Stadium, with the exception of taxpayer-financed infrastructure upgrades and a land grab with costs best measured in cruelty. Posted Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:13 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas, Steinbrenner, George M 3d, Bronx (NYC)

• Sports of The Times: All Is Well: The Voice Is Coming Back

  After being set upon by illness, long-time announcer Bob Sheppard will again be heard sounding from the speakers at Yankee Stadium. Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:27 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas, Sheppard, Bob

• Yankees’ Top Seats Grow Pricier

  The best seats in the new Yankee stadium will start at $500 each and the tip-top ones — the $2,500, front-row seats — are sold out. Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:50 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates)

• Sports Business: Ruth Might Have Built It, but Many Have Used It

  Yankee Stadium has never been a baseball-only place. It’s been home to football, soccer, rock and roll, and Pope Benedict XVI is on deck for April 20. Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:24 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas

• Sports Business: Ruth May Have Built It, but Many Have Used It

  Yankee Stadium has never been a baseball-only place. It’s been home to football, soccer, rock and roll, and Pope Benedict XVI is on deck for April 20. Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:32 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments Filed under: Baseball, New York Yankees, Stadiums and Arenas