is almost over as I write this.  Hoooray! I had never heard of Yankee Stadium being a cathedral before this year and I hope I won’t hear it again after this year. Yes, you will not be able to say “Ruth played here” at the new stadium. But it is not as if the Yankees, or MLB itself, were going out of existence.  Ruth’s monument and all the other monuments and plaques to the greats of Yankee history will be moved over to the new place, which is not very far from the old place. True, Ruth never played in the new place, but he’d know the neighborhood.

And he might feel at home in the new place, because the architects made an effort to recapture the appearance of the ballpark that Ruth really knew.

A worse break with tradition would be for the Yankees to change their colors. Nowadays,  crazy marketers have put out red baseball caps with the Yankee insignia–RED! Talk about disrespecting history. But a new park with nicer facilities is something Ruth would have appreciated. He liked the finer things of life.

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