Old Yankee Stadium Pics

[Radiohead]

With Yankee Stadium ready to close in just over 13 months, I thought I'd start a thread of old pictures of the great old Bronx ballpark. I've got MANY pics of the old stadium on my hard drive, which I'll be posting over the next weeks and months. If anyone else has any, feel free to post as well. Kudo's to the Baseball-Fever website, as well as others, which led me to finding many of these hard to find photos.

BTW, I'll also be starting a Shea Stadium thread with old pics of Shea.

Well, I'll start with just a couple....

1939
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Late 1960's
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1955
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[stache]

Is that Co-op City in the background of photo #2?

[TallGuy]

That is not Co-Op City. Wrong direction.

You can really notice how close the upper decks were in those photos prior to the 19070's remodeling when the field was lowered 10 feet. I am fascinated by pictures showing the remodeling, as I am most interested in parts of the Stadium that are original, which 2/3rds are.

[Radiohead]

Phil Rizzuto RIP
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1922
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1326/1110482605_03deadaeb7_o.jpg

1958
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1290/1120557495_db984fc652_o.jpg

Ruth Hits Double in 1928 WS
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Early 1923
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1946 Joe Louis -Conn fight
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1068/1121147098_2e148a698e_o.jpg

Poster from same fight
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1076/1121148134_6a9a46efcf_o.jpg

After 1937 WS game. Notice how fans could walk on the field. Imagine that today.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1392/1111634372_b41355d101_o.jpg

1950's
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1330/1120559429_2d9965be62_o.jpg

1934 view of scoreboard keeper
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/1111546264_836276ae68_o.jpg

[JCMAN320]

Radiohead great pictures. As a die hard Yankee fan it's great to see this. I also have same sentiments about the passing of Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto he will be missed. He actually lived, up uintil moving into the home for the elderly, lived right around the corner from my cusion in Hillside, NJ just outside of Newark with is wife Cora.

[Radiohead]

1957
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1090/1132986904_b30e9df16d_o.jpg

1960's
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1153/1121400988_57c1bfe84e_o.jpg

1947
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1202/1120395695_36d5ab8a5b_o.jpg

1937
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1067/1110792663_0621e65ae4_o.jpg

1955
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1065/1143145620_143f7df197_o.jpg

1937
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1320/1110704241_8242ad8c08_o.jpg

1927 (last season before the grandstand was extended around past the foul poles)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1196/1110702807_3d3a7661ae_o.jpg

1966
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1064/1142302823_cafb7c0f6e_o.jpg


1958
Click link for very large photo:http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1284/1143146078_9ea3d43343_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1284/1143146078_d7514d10d3_b.jpg

[Radiohead]

Some from 2007. I took these at the Yankee-Devil Ray game 7/21.
Click to go large on all


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[Zephyr]

That is not Co-Op City. Wrong direction.

You can really notice how close the upper decks were in those photos prior to the 19070's remodeling when the field was lowered 10 feet. I am fascinated by pictures showing the remodeling, as I am most interested in parts of the Stadium that are original, which 2/3rds are.

I love that photo of Joltin' Joe, so forlorn as the changes were being made to the old stadium. But then again, he often looked forlorn in pictures I've seen, regardless of setting.

Those heavy overhangs that partially survived in the renovated stadium, are copied all over the place outside New York. The Chicago White Sox have a version of them, all black and more stylized. I've seen an aluminium version in Japan, and in Holland, a temporary version made out of cardboard.

[TallGuy]

Actually, all of the original white overhang that hung over the upper deck was discarded. It was made I believe (but correct me please if anyone knows better) of copper which was painted white. It is commonly misreported that some was saved and reused along the outfield scoreboard wall installed behind the bleachers. This is not true. What is there now is a cheaper imitation of the original made out of either concrete or some type of plaster.

[ZippyTheChimp]

That's right. The original frieze is gone.

I don't think it was ever painted though, and if it was, not white.

Mickey Mantle was the only one to hit the frieze with a fair ball - twice.

No one knows how far it would have gone if it cleared the roof, but the second one may have been the longest home run ever hit.

http://www.themick.com/Hardestballhr.gif

[JCMAN320]

Again Radiohead great photos. The frieze actually wasn't copper at all. The copper story had become some what of an urban legend.

The salvage operators thought it would have been, so they naturally were excited. When they brought it down though, it turned out not be copper, but turned metal. LOL. Needless to say they were a little miffed.

[Radiohead]

I believe the frieze had a greenish hue to it from it's inception (and not from age and neglect, which I originally thought). It was painted white in the mid 1960's after CBS bought the club. Unfortunately, the team itself was allowed to get run into the ground.

The first several pics are of Babe Ruth alive and deceased.

1932 Babe with kids
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1920's Babe at bat
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1948 Babe's coffin carried to stadium
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Line to pay respects
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Procession past the coffin
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1957
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1957
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1961
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1974 Dimaggio threatens construction crew with a bat:)
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[Radiohead]

1955
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1113/1271378332_8c236a959c_o.jpg

1957
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1127/1270515883_268f87d9ff_b.jpg

1961 Mantle and Whitey Ford(#16)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1423/1271378934_9bc5f0c2c7_o.jpg

1963
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1960
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Late 1920's
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1965
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1966
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1950's
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1950's
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[TREPYE]

Those were some COLL bleachers....:)


1955
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1957
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1965
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1966


1950's
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1950's
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[lofter1]

Home movies from 1920s / 1930s: Yankee Stadium & the Polo Grounds ...

2 early football (Yankee Stadium, Army-Navy Polo Grounds) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URfkVLCtn8k)

And a tangential story (the internal links have some great info) ...

A Stairway to Sports History
From the Polo Grounds

CITY ROOM / NY TIMES (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/a-stairway-to-sports-history-from-the-polo-grounds/)
By Timothy Williams
February 19, 2008

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/19/nyregion/19stairs.1.jpg
(Photo: Geoffrey Croft/New York City Park Advocates)
Steps that lead nowhere today once offered a clear, yet distant,
view of games at the Polo Grounds.

With the winter baseball news dominated by tales of steroids and human growth hormone drugs, hearings and investigations, and apologies and denials, a look back at a more innocent time in baseball may be in order this week, when position players are joining pitchers and catchers at training camp in Florida and Arizona.

The Polo Grounds (http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/past/PoloGrounds.htm), the northern Manhattan home of the New York Giants baseball team, has long been the site of a rather imposing public housing complex called the Polo Grounds Towers (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=102265) — four 30-story skyscrapers with 1,616 units.

Few clues remain about the glorious things that happened when the Polo Grounds was a sports stadium (http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/PoloGrounds.html) in Washington Heights — Willie Mays (http://www.nytstore.com/ProdDetail.aspx?prodId=4068), the birth of the Mets, the New York Cubans, the New York football Giants, and Floyd Patterson vs. Ingemar Johansson (http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?documentid=48311&start=1&page=576), among them.

But one relic remains, not as the result of historic preservation, but by accident.

That relic is a staircase built down Coogan’s Bluff, the hill that overlooked the stadium, which is roughly where Edgecombe Avenue runs today. The staircase once led to a ticket booth, and was built by the owner of the Giants at the time.

Coogan’s Bluff had long been a sort of Tightwad Hill for local fans, a place where those unwilling or unable to pay the stadium’s entrance fee had a clear, if distant, view of the proceedings at no charge.

If nothing else, the Giants may have hoped a new stairway would prompt a few fans to buy tickets.

Today, the stairway leads nowhere, except for an overgrown stretch of Highbridge Park (http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/highbridgepark). Many, if not most, of its steps are missing; its guard rails rusting and falling apart; and some sections have disappeared into the underbrush, making an attempt to walk down them highly inadvisable.

But at a landing partway down is an inscription; like the staircase, it has been slowly disintegrating over the decades. Its letters are still clear despite rain, snow and heat, and it reads: “The John T. Brush Stairway Presented by the New York Giants.”

A New York Times article from July 9, 1913, retrieved by the Parks Department, says that on that day the baseball club would be formally presenting the “John T. Brush Stairway” to the city. The Giants’ team president, H. N. Hempstead, was to present the gift to the city parks commissioner, Charles B. Stover, to honor Mr. Brush, the Giants owner (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=John_T_Brush) who had died in 1912.

But city officials say the long-forgotten inscription and staircase, which might be the last vestiges of the old ballpark, could be in for a reprieve.

As part of the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC2030 (http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml) program, Highbridge Park is set for an overhaul, including the historic, and long-closed High Bridge — as well as the staircase.

The cost of repairing the staircase is about $1.2 million, according to city officials. So far, the city has only $400,000 to pay for it — all of it from the office of the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer (http://www.mbpo.org/).

Mr. Stringer, 47, who grew up in Washington Heights, near the stadium, said he never saw a game there. Indeed, Mr. Stringer said when someone mentions the Polo Grounds to him, his mind does not turn to images of Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron or Sugar Ray Robinson.

“When I think of the Polo Grounds, I think of the housing development and the people who live there,” he said.

As for the staircase, Mr. Stringer said he had no idea it existed until the Parks Department asked him to help finance its restoration. “It was sort of left to us,” he said. “But we’ll make sure the inscription is restored.”

(For the record, Mr. Stringer said he follows both the Mets and Yankees, but at heart, is a Jets fan.)

Adrian Benepe, the commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation, said the park “has undergone a significant rebirth in the last 10 years with more than $10 million worth of improvements completed or in progress” and that an additional $75 million in projects were already underway or planned. “Even with all that, there’s still more work we need to do on this historic park, including finding some additional funding for the Brush Stairway renovation,” he said.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/19/nyregion/19stairs.2.jpg
(Photo: Geoffrey Croft/New York City Park Advocates)
A plaque at the bottom of the staircase honoring the New York Giants’ baseball
team owner, John T. Brush, was dedicated in July 1913, the year after his death.

[STT757]

Man I can't wait for the season to start, I might go down to Florida in March to take in some Spring Training. There's nothing like the anticipation of the new baseball season, reminds us that Winter is on it's way out and Summer is around the corner.

My favorite times to go to games are early in the Season (April-early June) or late in the season (September).

[mbhuens1]

Here I am, watching the All Star Game and googled pics of the old stadiums, because I'm so fascinated by these great venues. I grew up in Dallas and watched old Arlington Stadium go from minor league to Major League stadium in one season, so that the Senators could move there. Of course, compare to Yankee Stadium, the history is not that great.

I really think that photo of Joe D. sitting in the stands during remodeling, is incredible, as are the many great color photos.

And thanks for posting Shea Stadium pics too. That's great to see where it was, what it looked like and even what it looked like during construction.

[Ebola]

I am currently watching the All Star Game as I type and it is 1:00 AM. The Old Yankee Stadium clearly doesn't wan't its last major moment of fame to end; something tells me that the game won't be ending anytime soon unless they call a tie.

[NYC4Life]

Finally it is all over. American League wins yet again 3-4 in the bottom of the 15th inning.

[Radiohead]

The end is near...only 20 days left for the old stadium...

RFK & Mantle Mid 60's
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1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3198/2771026011_f8ab31aed5_o.jpg

Renovations (which stripped it of it's charm) 1974-75
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1960's postcard
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2745810868_2c39556d6f_o.jpg

The late Bobby Murcer, with HOFer Carlton Fisk catching
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Last game in old stadium 1973
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2703153178_ffd3748738_b.jpg

Joe D & Mel Allen
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1971
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3289/2670174344_a9893a26d7_o.jpg

[BrooklynLove]

RFK & Mantle Mid 60's
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2771871876_aa554bfd07_o.jpg


This photo is bizarre ...

[Triborough]

11 August 1994, the last baseball game I went to ever. The strike and Bud Selig's nonsense basically killed baseball for me.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1068/878992133_c1fd0d06e7.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/878992133/)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1387/878974473_29d021071b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/878974473/)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1428/879831450_1eb68a0204.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/879831450/)

Blue Jays 8 Yankees 7 (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=199408110NYA)

[lofter1]

This photo is bizarre ...

It sure is.

What's the occasion?

Who is Bobby going to shake hands with?

And who's the lady? (And what happy meds is she on?)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2771871876_aa554bfd07_o.jpg

[lofter1]

Apparently it was Mickey Mantle Day (http://www.thesportgallery.com/products/rfk.html) on September 18, 1965 ...

It was Mantle's 2,000th game ...

The Naturals, 1965 (Mickey Mantle - Robert Kennedy)

http://www.thesportgallery.com/products/mantle-rfk550water.jpg

Price (US) $195 unframed -- ORDER (http://www.beanstreamcarts.com/stores/thesportgallery/product.asp?ProdID=10846&GroupID=4893&c=1)

Limited Edition Giclée Fine Art Archival Print (http://www.thesportgallery.com/gicleedescription.html). Number in Edition: 125.

Photographed by Martin Blumenthal of SPORT magazine.

United States Senator Robert Kennedy chats with Yankee general Mickey Mantle
at Mickey Mantle Day, September 18, 1965 at Yankee Stadium.
From original 2 1/4" transparency.

Image size is 12" wide x 12" high, and total print size including title and emboss is 14" wide x 14" high. Framed size is 19" x 22".

> All Content published or otherwise accessible at thesportcollection.com is protected by copyright, and is owned by Sport Gallery Inc. or reprinted under license.

[lofter1]

Mickey Mantle Day (http://keymancollectibles.com/publications/mickeymantleday65.htm) - September 18, 1965

http://keymancollectibles.com/publications/images/wpe5D.jpg

This is a September 18, 1965 Yankee Stadium Mickey Mantle Day Program.
The Day In honor of Mickey Mantle Playing in his 2000 Game (That Day).
The Cover Illustration by James bama, from Mickey Mantles Book "the Quality of courage".
The inside feature Great Pictures, and stats of Mickey's Career. The back page has
the Days program, and a tribute from Ballantine Beer.

Only Lou Gehrig (2164), Yogi Berra (2116), and Babe Ruth (2084)
Played more Games as a Yankee at that point in time.

[lofter1]

Mickey's Mickey Mantle Day Speech

September 18, 1965 - Yankee Stadium, New York

http://www.themick.com/bkennedy.jpg
Mickey with Bobby Kennedy on
Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium

Thank you very much Joe. (Note: Joe DiMaggio introduced Mickey.)

I think just to have the greatest baseball player I ever
saw introduce me is tribute enough for me in one day.
Today’s game will be my 2000th game with the Yankees.
I’ve been very nervous on this ballpark many times in the
last 15 years but never any more nervous than I am right now.

To name everyone whose helped me through my career would be possible.
So I’m gonna take this opportunity to say to them one and all, that I
certainly appreciate everything they’ve done for me and hope that I’ve
lived up to their expectations.

To have any kind of success in life I think you have someone behind you to
push you ahead and to share it with if you’re ever obtain it. And I
certainly have that in my wife Merlyn, little Mickey whose here, and I have
three little boys at home that didn’t get to come but they’re watching on TV,
David, Billy and Danny. And also a wonderful mother who is here.

As you all know, all the donations for this day are turned over to the
Hodgkin's Disease Fund at St. Benton's Hospital. That was founded in the
memory of my father who died of Hodgkin's disease. I wish he could have
been here today. I know he would be just as proud and happy at what
you all have done here as we are.

There’s been a lot written in the last few years about the pain that I’ve
played with. But I want you to know that when one of you fans, whether
it’s in New York or anywhere in the country, say “Hi Mick! How you feeling?”
or “How’s your legs?”, it certainly makes it all worth it. All the people in
New York, since I’ve been here, have been tremendous with me.
Mr. Topping, all of my teammates, the press and the radio and the TV have
just been wonderful. I just wish I had 15 more years with you.

Thank you very much. "

Mickey Mantle, September 18, 1965 (http://www.themick.com/mmdayspeech.html)

© Copyright 1998-2008 - Lewis Early

[joelriedel]

Hey. Those are great phots with amazing historical value.

I found a really interesting article about Yankee Stadium laws the other day browsing around the web. You can read it at this New York Lawyer (http://ny-law-firm.com/new-york-law-blog/lawsuits/105/yankee-stadium-laws) blog.

The are basically discussing the issue related to the struggle and lawsuit surrounding the last home run ball hit on the final game at Yankee Stadium.


After Sunday night’s Yankee Stadium finale, ownership of the final home run ball ever hit in the park has come into question. When the ball fell into the net covering the area in left-center field, a fan grabbed a hold of the ball through the net. After being instructed by security to let it go, it fell into the hands of another fan in the area. Security retrieved the ball and returned it to the first fan, as in accordance with the rules of Yankee Stadium (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/nyregion/24ball.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin). The second fan is pursuing his legal avenues, which have been an issue with other big time baseballs:
Read the full article (http://ny-law-firm.com/new-york-law-blog/lawsuits/105/yankee-stadium-laws)

[CCCP]

Wow, that woman's makeup is scary. She looks like a clown with that white makeup.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2771871876_aa554bfd07_o.jpg

[meesalikeu]

a historic brand new yankee stadium opening day photo
october 18th, 1923

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f370/meesalikeu2/b0e39f9f.jpg

and a farewell shot i took recently -- at the end of last month (part of a multi-thread grand concourse tour i did on another website -- see the link if you are interested in that):
http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/board,2.0.html
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f370/meesalikeu2/af77a07d.jpg

[DarkAudit]

I hate to necropost a year old thread with only my 2nd post ever, but this is the thread that led me to the forums (thanks to Uniwatch), and I have a request that fits the thread.

I've seen few if any shots of the pre-renovation Yankee Stadium interior. In fact, of all the NYC ball parks, I've seen a couple pics of some Ebbets Field concession stands, but that's it. I'd love to see some shots that illustrate what it must have been like to wander the inside of Yankee Stadium during the glory days.

[Radiohead]

There aren't many old pics of the interior of the stadium. These are from the 1950's movie FBI Story, part of which was filmed in Yankee Stadium.

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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4309865597_6ea24dc973_o.jpg

As for the demolition, she is slowly coming down:{

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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4286150973_ba6808c4d6_o.jpg
Above 2 from jimn/flickr

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[lofter1]

Iconic DiMaggio Quote Crumbles as Major Section of Old Yankee Stadium is Demolished

A Walk In The Park (http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2010/04/iconic-dimaggio-quote-crumbles-as-major.html)
Sunday April 11, 2010

Joltin Joe DiMaggio's iconic quote, "I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee," came crashing down yesterday afternoon as a major section of the old Yankee Stadium was demolished. The quote adorned the Yankee Stadium facade high above the main entryway. Dozens of people lined a recently inaugurated park facility located on top of the parking garage to watch the demolition. The "pull," which lasted five seconds, also brought down half of the dates painted on the facade depicting 26 Yankee World Series victories.

Joe Dimaggio's quote sits in a pile of rubble after the "pull" ...

Photo: © NYC Park Advocates

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[chief714]

I believe the woman with "the clown makeup" and "on the happy meds" is Eleanor Gehrig.

[chief714]

Thank you Radiohead for the great pictures. There are many of them that I haven't seen before.

[TREPYE]

Something Ive never been clear of is who led the charge in the denovation of the old YS, CBS or Steinbrener? The removal of the Frieze was a desecration, made worse by the fact that none of it was even preserved. The Frieze in the oufield from my understanding was a concrete replica.

[JCMAN320]

Something Ive never been clear of is who led the charge in the denovation of the old YS, CBS or Steinbrener? The removal of the Frieze was a desecration, made worse by the fact that none of it was even preserved. The Frieze in the oufield from my understanding was a concrete replica.

Yes the one in the outfied was just a concrete replica. Alose the bat atop the flag pole in the outfield was not Lou Gehrigs; it was a rumor that gained legs.

[mr met]

Something Ive never been clear of is who led the charge in the denovation of the old YS, CBS or Steinbrener? The removal of the Frieze was a desecration, made worse by the fact that none of it was even preserved. The Frieze in the oufield from my understanding was a concrete replica.

it was john lindsay, mike burke and to a lesser extent cbs.
the frieze had to be removed, to dismantle it in a way to "preserve" and later rehang it would have taken too long to meet the 4/76 opening deadline - not to mention the co$t.
the copper was too fragile for this process and was melted down, concrete replica was more robust and more accurate to the original than what's in the new place.

don't respond with the "oh, your a mets fan" stuff, my parents worked in the front office and married while working there. i attended at least 30+ games there as well as the last one in '73 and the first in '76.

oys was considered old and unsafe in an era that worshiped new/modern, the "denovation" kept the franchise at that spot a lot longer than if nothing had been done. a mediocre product on the field magnifies these perceptions as stein-grabber learned in the 80's and early 90's.