There’s a good article in the latest Sports Illustrated, where the writer personifies the stadium as the “I”—it recalls the great events that have happened there (games of course, and other memorable events that happened there such as George Brett’s Pine Tar incident, championship boxing matches such as Joe Louis and Max Schmeling in 1938 and Norton-Ali in 1976, Pope John Paul II in 1979 and Pope Benedict XVI recently, etc., much less all the storied World Series games).

It also talks about the new stadium and clubhouse. Even though it’s just moving across the street, it won’t have the same history since some things can’t be taken — i.e., the clubhouse, renovated to its rectangular shape in 1976, had a large corner locker to which the longest standing Yankee held rights (passed from Sparky Lyle to Graig Nettles to Ron Guidry to Dave Righetti to Don Mattingly to Bernie Williams to Mariano Rivera). The new clubhouse across the street will be oval shaped, with no corner locker. Anyway, it’s strange to see it go. I wish architectural landmarks with such history wouldn’t go the way they too often do in the United States. But I’m glad I got see at least one game there before it goes.