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We're actuallylosing `second' Yankee Stadium
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The Boston Globe
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July 7, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright 2008 The Boston Globe. (Hide copyright information)
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NEW YORK - Thirty-four games left.
Well, not necessarily. The Yankees could make the playoffs.
But whether it's the last regularly scheduled game against
Baltimore Sept. 21 (what kind of bizarre scheduling has the Yankees
finishing up this particular season on the road?), or on some
unspecified October date, the final game in the history of Yankee
Stadium will be played this season. And, yes, attention is being
paid.
It should be. Yankee Stadium isn't the oldest ballpark in the
major leagues. That honor belongs to - aw, shucks - Fenway Park, our
own lyric little bandbox of a ballpark, which opened for business in
1912. Wrigley Field (nee Weeghman Park) opened two years after that.
But when ...
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