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Stories poured forth from people outside the Yankee Stadium who remembered small, touching moments in the life of the hulking stadium.

The last Yankees game at this Yankee Stadium is not the same as the last Dodgers game at Ebbets Field. The Yankees are just going across the street. The Dodgers were going across the country.

There is never any pretext of subtlety or modesty. They are the Yankees — front page, bold type — and their ballpark has always reflected that.

It was 1948 when Paul Simon suddenly realized he was a Yankee fan. Sixty years later, he reminisces about his experiences at Yankee Stadium.

Ken Griffey Jr. is playing at Yankee Stadium for the final time, as a member of the Chicago White Sox. He is not sad to see it go and will not ask for a souvenir.

The Yankees and the Mets have said little, if anything, about their plans to say farewell to their old stadiums.

Getting to the postseason, Yankees rooters discovered this year, is not an inalienable right. Not even in the last season in the House That Ruth Built.

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

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.

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.