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Article: Regards, regrets to Yankee Stadium
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2008
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If you remember 1963, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, it's
easy to see how someone who had never been to Yankee Stadium could
mourn its death. You didn't know JFK personally, but you knew what
he represented.
And so you grieved.
The House that Ruth Built is giving way to the House that
Progress Wrought. It's unlikely anyone will find the ghosts of
Gehrig, DiMaggio or Ruth in the new place, but scaring up a mocha
latte should be easy.
The new stadium will be efficient, upscale, probably even
evocative, but ultimately soulless.
A house doesn't make memories overnight.
So when a friend told me he and his son had gone to the old
baseball shrine recently, just to say good-bye, I realized I ...