Reborn: New Yankee Stadium To Pay Homage To Original Ballpark
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New Yankee Stadium To Pay
Homage To Original Ballpark |
The new $1.1B Yankee Stadium, which "appears right on target" for its scheduled '09 opening, "pays homage to the original edifice" of Yankee Stadium, which opened in '23, according to Barry Bloom of MLB.com, who toured the facility under construction. Yankees officials "dug up" the original Yankee Stadium architectural plans, and from them, they are "remaking the famous curved and striped 'frieze' that hovers high above the bleachers in the renovated ballpark, putting it where it once was: running around the stadium below the lights on the fringe of the upper-deck overhang." Officials for the new Yankee Stadium also have "replicated the monumental Gate 4 entrance." The ballpark "won't look much like the current stadium ... save for the white-washed walls and eventual Yankee-blue seats." The ballpark is "airy and open," and the "congestion in the concourses and the problems of ingress and egress in the current stadium will be left in the past." Additionally, Monument Park will return to center field in the new park. The new Yankee Stadium will seat 53,000, and Bloom noted "every one of those seats has an unencumbered view of home plate, even though the new stadium reaches about the same height as the existing one." Most of the seats are "much closer to the field than the current stadium." The new ballpark also will have a "Great Hall" outside the field concourse on the right field side, with a "24-foot-by-36-foot video board hanging on the wall at the far end, and banners of great Yankees stars, past and present, draped in strips" (MLB.com, 5/5).
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