Farewell Yankee Stadium
Steven Lourie
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Yankee Stadium hosted what was its final regular season baseball game today and likely what was its final baseball game period, with the Yankees on the brink of elimination from playoff contention (if 
the Red Sox win another game all season or if the Yankees lose another game all season, the Yankees will be eliminated.) The Yankees went out the same way they went in, all the way back in 1923, with a victory as the defeated the AL East bottom dwelling Baltimore Orioles.
Next season the Yankees will open a new giantic Yankee Stadium, which will be nowhere as good as the real thing, because they had an extra billion dollars sitting around that they weren't using and because they knew they would be pretty much irrelivent this season and hated that the focus might not be on them for a season. Thus the birth of the New Yankee Stadium. Before, they move into their new stadium, we must say goodbye to the old one, by reminising about some of the greatest moments (top 10, in fact), in stadium history.
10. Babe Ruth lays the first brick
We'll start at the start, literally. In the first game ever played at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hits a homerun in the 3rd inning to give the Yankees their first win in the new ballpark. Ruth would hit hundreds more homeruns in the stadium and the Yankees would win countless more games there, but this first "brick" that Ruth laid down in what would become the "House that Ruth Built" is one of the most memorable in stadium history.
9. Josh Hamilton
We go from the first moment to one of the last. The 2008 all-star game at Yankee Stadium supposed to be the goodbye for Yankee Stadium, but Josh Hamilton wasn't about to let it fade quietly into the night. He hit a record 28 homeruns in the first round, some going over 500 feet. He did not win, but if I hadn't just said that, about 30% of readers wouldn't have known that. He put on quite a show in what was his coming out party as one of the great power hitters of the game, when just 3 years ago he was bottoming out on drugs, and the celebration of 85 years of Yankee Stadium.
8. Bobby Murcer
Next season the Yankees will open a new giantic Yankee Stadium, which will be nowhere as good as the real thing, because they had an extra billion dollars sitting around that they weren't using and because they knew they would be pretty much irrelivent this season and hated that the focus might not be on them for a season. Thus the birth of the New Yankee Stadium. Before, they move into their new stadium, we must say goodbye to the old one, by reminising about some of the greatest moments (top 10, in fact), in stadium history.
10. Babe Ruth lays the first brick
We'll start at the start, literally. In the first game ever played at Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hits a homerun in the 3rd inning to give the Yankees their first win in the new ballpark. Ruth would hit hundreds more homeruns in the stadium and the Yankees would win countless more games there, but this first "brick" that Ruth laid down in what would become the "House that Ruth Built" is one of the most memorable in stadium history.
9. Josh Hamilton
We go from the first moment to one of the last. The 2008 all-star game at Yankee Stadium supposed to be the goodbye for Yankee Stadium, but Josh Hamilton wasn't about to let it fade quietly into the night. He hit a record 28 homeruns in the first round, some going over 500 feet. He did not win, but if I hadn't just said that, about 30% of readers wouldn't have known that. He put on quite a show in what was his coming out party as one of the great power hitters of the game, when just 3 years ago he was bottoming out on drugs, and the celebration of 85 years of Yankee Stadium.
8. Bobby Murcer