What Happened to Yankee Stadium? ABANDONED? 

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I attended a Yankees game at the original stadium while the new one was under construction and thought it was unfortunate they decided not to restore the original house that the Babe built. So glad Wrigley was preserved.

I've never got over Yankee Stadium being demolished, that was a historical building, just like Wrigley Field and Fenway.

I grew up in The Bronx, I would have preferred that they tore the stands down and built a new stadium around the same field. It would have been fine to play a season at Citi Field if it meant you could keep the same home plate. History should matter.

Went to visit Yankees stadium for the 1st time in the summer of 2008 and you could already see the new stadium next door almost finished, took the stadium tour and remember tearing up when standing right in front of Monument Park and glancing into the field I was just imagining all the greats that played on that field and all the great moments and memories that that field held and couldn't believe it was going to be demolished pretty soon, that was very sad for a Yankees fan.

I saw my 1st MLB game at the old Yankee Stadium. It was in 1959. My dad & a friend brought me to it. Our friend saw Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig play there.

All I’m going to say is, I’m glad the Cubs preserved Wrigley Field.

The old stadium could have certainly been preserved, much like the renovations done to Wrigley and Fenway. It always comes down to money and corporate greed and they were worried about building more bathrooms in the new stadium. They could've built luxury boxes behind home plate. It is sad how many empty seats you see behind home plate in the new stadium for every game.

The history in that ballpark was incredible. I'm glad we still have Fenway.

Greed over history and heart. The Steinbrenner family should have never tore the Cathedral down. Now they play in a glorified shopping mall.

I’m no Yankee fan, but I really love and respect the franchise’s history. It was pretty sad to see the old ballpark be torn down.

The house where Ruth built is now gone. Shame on them for doing that.

As a Redsox fan I feel heartbroken whenever I see the demolition of Yankee Stadium. Sadly, I didn't go to it.

In Oakland I met a guy who saw babe Ruth play when he was 6 he was 102 when I met him he was so cool and he remembered the whole game he also went to many other crazy games.

My grandmother had season tickets along the third base line for years. I'm not the biggest baseball fan, but I went to several games with her over the years. A lot of good memories there. She died in '08 before the new stadium was opened. I have yet to go to a game in the new stadium.

From 1998-2003, I visited my grandpa every summer in Queens, NY and he never took me to Shea or Yankee stadium. I feel robbed lol😤. Nevertheless, he’s done more for me than I could ever payback in 100 lengthy lifetimes.

I went to NYC in 2010 and watched my Rangers play the evil empire at the new Yankee stadium. The old park was just a small section left to be torn down. I felt saddness I missed it in it's prime.

What happened to the Old Yankee Stadium was disgusting even for this Yankee Fan. Even for me as a fan I cried that last night it held its last game and into the next morning. This was a major wrong and nothing short of what this city did with the Old Pennsylvania Station that was destroyed for Madison Square Garden. Today’s new stadium is a mall surrounding a baseball field. I give Boston and Chicago credit where it is due, they renovated their ball parks and they are historic in their own rights. This city knows more of destroying historic structures than it does preserving them.

The Cardinal’s player pictured at 16:22 is my great grandfather, pitcher Max Lanier who I actually had the opportunity to meet while he was still alive. He won 2 World Series and lost to the Yankees in 1943, but had a 1.9 ERA. My family has great stories about him he was an amazing player.

I never got the chance to go inside the old stadium, I started going to the games in 2009 when the old stadium was still up. Seeing the old Stadium across from the new one was such a gut punch. That's the closest i've been inside Yankee Stadium

I took my son and daughter 2 years in a row. 1999, and 2000 to see summer games .They were ten and eleven at the time. Those memories will never be forgotten for them and for me.❤🇺🇸⚾️.

I lived in the Bronx and saw about eight games from about 1954-62. I snagged a foul ball by Eddie Robinson and then got his signature on it. I remember a drizzling night game when the wild super-fireball reliever Ryne Duren was brought in. He kept requesting a facecloth from the bench with which to dry off the ball and his glasses. The third or fourth time the umpire walked out to him to tell him, That’s Enough, because it was delaying the game. When he got halfway to the mound, the batter (from the Washington Senators IIRC) ran out to catch up with him, signaling to let Duren dry the ball all he wanted. Everyone sympathized with him. Duren’s wildness was well known, and he’d already thrown one pitch well inside. His speed was astonishing in that era. After his first warm-up pitch, and the remaining one’s, the whole crowd gasped.

It was my favorite place. I never thought they would ever tear it down. I stopped being a Yankee fan. The new hospital feeling of the new yankee stadium represents the future of the team and nothing of the past.

They should of kept part of the original Yankee Stadium as a museum!

This makes me miss Tiger Stadium so much. I wish they would have just given it a big remodel and kept it around.

I'm from Philly but got to attend the old Yankee Stadium once in 2005. It was a cool place with its nooks and crannies. Like most people I wish the stadium was still standing,

Love this series. Great work. These episodes are so addicting (in a good way)!

Growing up, I was a big baseball fan and learned some of it's history as well. During the summer of 2008, I was going into my senior year of college, and my parents surprised me with tickets to see the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium. I remember going to that game and upon walking into the stadium all the names of the greats were popping into my head. The hair on the back of my neck was standing and I had chills all over my body. The game was amazing. A-Rod hit a homer, Giambi hit a grand slam, and another player hit a home run as well.

Very well done, but one interesting fact that was not mentioned. During the renovation, the Yankees actually played at Shea Stadium for two season ‘74-‘75. And it made Bill Virdon the only Yankees manager to never win a game in Yankee Stadium.

Great memories from watching the Yankees play inside that stadium! My father and his friends were part of the groups that tore it down, we have pieces of the walls, tiles from the lockerroom, the electrical plans, and even a chair that i sit in anytime i watch tv. I can tell you alot of tears were shed during demolition.

As a diamondbacks fan the old Yankees stadium always reminds me of the legendary 2001 World Series.

I cannot fathom even to think about the history of that old stadium. It had outlived many built after her... As a yankee fan, I have to hate the Red Sox.. but there is one thing I have to salute them for... they love their old venue, Fenway Park... I'm told by friends of my family and others.. Yankee stadium lost much of it's charm in the monster renovation in the 70's... but unlike teams today.. where the Braves had to have a new stadium just 20 years later... They kept that old girl and fixed her up. She would have been torn down in the 70's with today's attitudes... Great video... though the Bronx Zoo was not the building.. it was the team and it's ownerships disfunctional ways that garnered that moniker..

i’ve made 4 yankee stadium trips. 2 to the old stadium and 2 to the new. i love yankee stadium as it is but it just doesn’t compare to the house that babe built and it never will. i was at the second to last game ever played in yankee stadium, the somber yet excited and always electric energy was almost chilling.

I went to several games at the old stadium when I was a kid (25 now). Sucks that it’s a blur memory but I remember watching A-Rod hitting a walk off home run, Randy Johnson pitching and Mo walking out while Enter Sandman played. Glad to have been to the old Yankee stadium and I’m also glad to continue making memories at the new Yankee stadium 😢

I am genuinely enjoying this video, great commentary, and I have to give you credit where it’s due, awesome storytelling, and I say enjoying it because I’m still in the middle of it but I wanted to comment and for sure leave a like incase I forget to because I’m anxiously waiting for the video to be over so I can check out your other content, super impressed seriously and I say anxiously regretfully because I almost don’t want this video to end because I’m really enjoying it that much lol, like legit haha, I keep rewinding it almost stalling so it doesn’t finish up lol, please keep up the amazing work, especially in a category with so much growth potential, I don’t even have to see any of your other content you’ve got a subscriber for sure 💪💪💪🙏🙏 thank you for this awesome video, I am learning a lot about my favorite baseball team and enjoying it very much along the way!!! Enough talking though I got to get back to the video lol jkjk, not really though lol 😊😊😊

Thoroughly enjoyed that, a very well done video.

I was at old Yankee stadium in 1995 and 1996 for Old Timers Day both times, Got to see Dimaggio, Mantle, Ford, Berra and all the rest. Yankees wins both times. When you went in there you truly felt the history like no other stadium I have been to before. It was a sad day to see it go but time stops for no one.

The last game I saw at the old stadium before the big 73-76 refurbishment was special. It was old timers day and Mickey homered off Whitey Ford. The Yanks played the Oakland A's with Catfish, Reggie and Company. The biggest part was seeing the late Eleanor Gerhig and Claire Ruth.

Thank you for making this video. This was awesome, and well made. Awesome job! I was lucky enough to visit Yankee Stadium before it was torn down. As a young boy, I was in heaven, revisiting the urge to ditch the tour guide and run onto the field and step in the batters box, and stand on the mound.. memories I have to this day, I'm almost 30... On that note Let's go Yankees!

very well commentary and edited 💯

Incredible Video! Beautifully done 🙌🏼

That 1958 NFL Championship game is widely regarded as the greatest game ever, btw. Happened right there at the old Yankee Stadium

Its a damn shame they tore that place down ..

Very nice the facts are well documented however the original Yankees stadium. Which was renovated in 1973? Had fiberglass bleacher seats no backs. Also the original seats were very uncomfortable wood paint blue. These seats were sold because they were stored in a warehouse. I think a Tabaco company Winston or Marlboro conducted the sale the fans did carry out there seats on the last game before the re construction the grass was also rolled up by fans and removed. People were leaving Yankees stadium with anything they could carry.

As someone from the northern half of NJ the Yankees and Mets were basically our home teams. Was always more of a Mets family but my grandfather was a devout Yankees fan and I saw many games in the original Yankee Stadium. Over time and after years of living in Massachusetts I developed a love for the Sox but there was some internal conflict- until they decided that Yankee Stadium was expendable. The fact they knocked down a stadium with such a rich history that was so inherently part of the sport was one of the last straws in my opinion of the team. It borders on the level of burning a flag or pissing on a grave in my opinion. There's a massive difference in my view of the old school Yanks from the historic times of Ruth and Murderers Row and even Martin and Mattingly, and the Joe Torre, Jeter loving A-ron years of now... Some places shouldn't have come down, Wrigley, Fenway, and Yankee Stadium should all have been on that list.

Great video. Really covered the history of this place thank you

The Yankees have a television network (YES) they produced a 3 part program about Yankee history. I think your production is just as good if not better.

Seeing Yankee Stadium being systematically demolished hurt my soul.

Its amazing how short of a time this part of the industrial revolution took off. From thoughts on 1900, to the almost maxed out capacity it held from the 50's. Only 50 years to make Yankee stadium something I even saw as a kid in the early 2,000's. Now I'm an o's fan but, being in construction, this is marvel of construction.

There was literally nothing like being in the Stadium during those late '90s years... especially in the playoffs, that building would literally shake. It was the best!

The present day version of Yankee Stadium is the 3rd version of Yankee stadium with similarities to the first. While attending a game this year i struck up a conversation with a security guard who went to first Yankee stadium and says Yankee stadium 2 was completely different than the first. you can find the "renovation" of Yankee stadium on RU-vid and Im sure you'll agree it was torn down and replaced. the field is what held the magic. now kids play baseball on hollowed ground.. Pretty cool

As a Red Sox fan, I’m so glad Fenway Park is still around. It’s a historical landmark!

Molina hit the last home run there. Pretty cool to fulfill Ruth’s quote after he hit the first one. How cool is that! - from a rays fan :)

The first time I remember being at the stadium was for Mickey Mantle Day 1967 and the last time I was there was in June 1994 when Yankee Stadium hosted the 15,000 competitors and SRO attendance numbers at the closing ceremonies of Gay Games IV with Sir Ian McKellen as host: "Remember no one wins on a march, no one tries to. We all march forward together."

Great video, thanks

Again a very good video. Thank you.

Great vid.. nice dig on the Sox at the end there. lol I've heard from several people that they feel the new stadium lacks soul but wonder if that'll change over time, with more titles and more legends playing there.

This is why you will never see Fenway Park torn down for as long as there is Major League Baseball!

As a Sox fan, I’m so glad Fenway was preserved. As a baseball fan, i made the trip in 2008 to make sure I experienced one game in Yankee Stadium.

Excellent video! Gave me goosebumps as a Yankees fan especially in the beginning

It is Ed Koch (like Kotch not coke) lol. One of the time I attended a Yankee game it was in late 80’s and they were terrible along with the South Bronx. It was only fitting that the night I went, was Mug Night at Yankee Stadium an appropriate name for the location at the time.

What a history and ending with the best burn ever! I truly enjoyed the video.

I hate that he's gone, but to me the only one to do the voice for this video should've been the late, great Vin Scully. Great video. NY is still on the bucket list. Great video.

My very first memory of the original Yankee Stadium was in 1960 as a four year old. I was riding on the subway on the uptown number 4 train with my older brother and mother. The train had just left the 149 st grand concourse and was about to go out of the tunnel out to the elevated portion of the 4 line.It was in the evening so immediately the Stadium lights caught my eye. I could see the crowds of people who were in the upper deck. So apparently a live game was being played. I got up and ran to look out the train car doors. My older brother hoisted me up so I could get a better view before the train pulled into the 161st station. Man I was so excited. I begged my parents after that to take me to that Stadium. As a backdrop my Parents were Dodgers and Giants fans even though we lived in the Bronx. So were both sets of grandparents. They never forgave the Yankees for waiting until 1955 to integrate the ball club with the great Elston Howard. But they had the honor to see the Yankee legends of the late 1940s to the mid 1950s play at Ebbetts field against the Brooklyn Dodgers during many World Series they played against one another. My father did get to see both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig play at the old Comiskey Park in Chicago as a boy.He was on a family visit with his parents to visit my father's relatives. I finally got my wish to see the Yankees with my Papa,Paternal Granddad and Paternal great granddad in 1963.For these three men they felt it was an honor to see DIMAGGIO pre 1951, MANTLE,MARIS,BERRA ,FORD and the rest of these Yankees play. My father felt that my older brother and younger sister should also have the honor. They still didn't care too much for the Yankee ownership though. But they didn't think it was fair for us three kids not to have these special memories. I remember the green seats. The green grass and the smell of it. I thought I was in a canyon because the noises seemed to echo.It was really big. The short Right field porch. The huge left center and right center. The flagpole and the monuments on the field. And the comment great granddad made about Mantle."See that fella there. He playing on one leg.But he still giving his all.In the field and at the plate.Now that's a ballplayer. Because he loves the game."

The 9th Avenue Elevated train (which was dismantled in 1958 after the NY Giants left for San Francisco) made travel accessible between Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds.

I attended a Yankees game in September 2005. I’m so glad I did. Little did I know it would be gone a few years later.

Thank you so much for this.

well done mate! best video about The Yankee Stadium. 👏

The only baseball game I ever attended was back in Summer 2008 at the original Yankee Stadium! We drove from Mass to see the Yankees vs. The Red Sox, What a great memory! I was so hungover, with no ac stuck in traffic for like forever trying to get back home. Lol.

8:46 that's actually Babe Ruth's real bat. He famously used a heavy bat. 44 ounces. That's how he generated his power. It gives you great coverage over the strike zone.

Brilliant video!

Really good watch. You should do one on Candlestick park in San Francisco. Lots of great history including the world series earthquake.

"The Boston Red Sox have a lot more losses to look forward to " That was great !!! Laughed heavily on that 😂😂🤣

I wish I got to attend the first stadium but I never did, I am a Mets fan but I’m still shocked that they knocked it down so much history would’ve been an amazing museum

I'm from NYC and have passed and drove by yankee stadium 🏟 countless times over the years, the old and new stadium right off the major Deegan expressway it stands. When that new stadium was built just right across street the old stadium stood, and you could see it there, and it just stood lifeless, empty, dark and desolate, almost creepy. To think that so many championships was won there, and so many iconic moments in sports history was made there, and to see it abandoned by itself alone felt really weird.. #yankees #forever #America's #team #greatest #franchise #in #sports #history

You forget how the Yankees past is just endless legends sometimes.... From Ruth and Lou Gehrig to Yogi, Mantle all the way to Jeter. Just non stop legends and HOF'ers. Nothing but respect for the club.

Yep ..felt the same way about Tiger Stadium. Should've revamped it . Hell the palace of auburn hills is gone too

do you have a film about the pontiac silver dome? i grew up near there, in waterford.

I grew up in NYC. My family had jobs at the Stadiums. It was common to work Shea stadium, Yankee stadium, and Madison square garden. I think they were kind of like in a union or something. Either way I was born late and I didn't get all of the privileges that my uncles and aunts did. However we still had some connections and I did get to go to quite a few games at Shea stadium because we lived in flushing and I got to go to a couple games at the original Yankee stadium. Once in the 1990s to see Danny Tartabull and my favorite Don Mattingly play. Another time in August of 2002 to watch Toronto face the Yankees. Giambi & Rondell White hit home runs. Mussina pitched. I remember that game much better. I never thought they would tear down the old stadium, and as far as I am concerned the Boston Red Sox reversed the curse on us, because we tore that building down. Winning a title that first year was basically a function of the fab five bringing their ghosts over. They left with them & Steinbrenner. The curse of Cashman reigns now.

6:10 i’m currently wearing my yanks 2000 ws hat, i love that subway series patch

Just a correction: The Yankees didn't run the Dodgers out of NY. The Dodgers left because they didn't get the new stadium they wanted in the area they wanted. Meanwhile LA wooed the Dodgers. The Giants left with them because the Dodgers needed another team to go to the West Coast with them. There were other teams in the running, but the Dodgers owner convinced the Giants owner to do it.

It's really tragic that all that history basically thrown in the trash but sometimes it's good to just say goodbye you can't hold onto the same thing forever.

So many memories that the old Yankee stadium gave me through out the years, so many great players from mantle to Derrick Jeter, tes i will never forget.

at 19:25, I thought that the Giants, Jets, Yankees, and Mets all played at Shea Stadium for two years. (& they Shea stadium was the only venue to host 4 different teams) - I was young then in the Mid 70a, but I don’t recall the Giants playing two hours away at Yale, in New Haven, CT for two years. - There were closer college stadiums to NYC that could of played in.

How do you not know what happened.. it’s now a park across from new stadium

Baffles me everyday that they tore down a stadium completely with history like this. Ive never been a Yankees fan but as a Baseball fan makes me sick. Glad Fenway and Wrigley rebuilt there stadiums to its former glory.

At 13:12 you're saying there's no team more successful than the NY Yankees, yet with a picture of Ted Williams (of the Red Sox) signing autographs.

LaBreece TV is guilty of not doing their homework The New York Yankees played their home games in Shea Stadium during the 1974 and 1975 seasons while Yankee Stadium was being renovated. The renovated ballpark that the Yankees played the '76 season in was so fundamentally different from the House that Ruth built that many Yankee fans regarded Yankee Stadium 2 as a new ballpark

Bro you must've watched a lot of Modern Marvels growing up too. Good work, and thank you for giving me ammo for all the damn Yankees fans I know 😂😂

It's amazing you didn't mention in 74-75 Yankees played at Shea Stadium while Stadium was rebuilt. The rebuilt was hideous because they took a beautiful but rundown stadium and created a sterile generic looking stadium that packed personality. Although I'm a Mets fan I appreciated the history of the team and stadium.

15:54 time stamp. The sign 🪧 Yankees Comeback wasn’t referring to the NY Yankees it was referring to the US military intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The sign was a way to express discontent with the American troops in Dominican soil. In Latin American the term Yankee is usually use to refer to Americans and more directly to American soldiers.

Glad you changed the picture of Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski at the 13:07 mark in the updated video.

There was a rumor in 1971 that the city of New Orleans was interested in buying the Yankees despite the Yankees drawing a million fans every year.

I had no idea they tore it down. Haven’t paid attention to mlb for years but had no idea it’s been reaaaaal long time.

The next Yankee Stadium will probably be built where the old one was. It would make sense logistically to do so, and would be awesome.

Good documentary, but your facts were off by just a bit. The Yankees played in 1 World Series in the 1980's, but they did not win. They lost the '81 series to the Dodgers in 6 games. The Yanks were not offered a domed stadium in the 70's. If you have any credible sources for this, I'd like to see The retractable roof stadium, proposed by Giuliani, was planned to be built where the current Stadium sits. There were talks of moving to the west side of Manhattan, but those particular plans were not part of it. Rivera and Pettitte were not signed free agents, they came up through the farm system along with Jeter and Posada.

Still hurts seeing the demolition of it ! Nice job only thing you got wrong was Ed Koch ( sounds like Scotch) not Ed Koke

An additional minor correction: after the mid-70’s renovation, left-center field was 430 feet, not 417 feet. That dimension was indeed reduced to 417 feet years later.

Still breaks my heart this stadium is Gone…I was lucky enough to be there a good amount of my childhood & I’m proud to say I was there on its last opening day In 08 & in 09 I was there again at the first game of the new one …watched us lose to the Indians that day still two of my most cherished games as a yankee fan

The Giants moved to San Francisco in ‘58, not ‘57. And the Yankees shared Shea Stadium with the Mets for two seasons while Yankee Stadium was being renovated ('74 & '75). Your claim that the Mets wouldn't let the Yankees play in their ballpark is simply incorrect. Otherwise a good video.