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Article: Baseball says goodbye to Yankee Stadium; NEW YORK [Derived headline]
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- The Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Baseball says goodbye to Yankee Stadium
NEW YORK -- Bobby Abreu walked around the home clubhouse early on Sunday evening, getting all of his teammates to sign a commemorative lineup card.
The former Phillie had been through the pomp and circumstance surrounding the closing of a stadium before. But this was a whole lot different than saying goodbye to the antiseptic donut known as Veterans Stadium back in 2003.
This was Yankee Stadium -- perhaps the grandest and most celebrated stadium in American sports history -- closing its doors. This was the place where mystique, aura, legends and October baseball became intertwined at a single address.
"You look around this place and you see all of the ...