Yes and it was against the Red Sox and Babe Ruth hit a Homer in it to have the first Home Run ever hit in the House That Ruth Built. They went on to win their first ever World Series that year.
I wish the Yankees all the best tonight. One of my students will be there, and has promised to bring me a bag of peanuts from the final game ever played in The House That Ruth Built.
Thank you, I know how much you hate the Yanks. I really do appreciate it.
dalej42, I went digging on Baseball Referenceand Retrosheet.org itself aparently neither has the box score from that game.
The Score was on Wed, Apr 18, 1923 was NYY over BOS 4-1 with Bob Shawkeygetting the Win.
The Yankee site itselfhas this blurb and wikimatches it.
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I am willing to admit, that I expect to weep tonight. I don’t remember going to the pre-renovation Yankee Stadium. The first Yankee Game I saw was at the not so wonderful Shea Stadium in 1974. I understand I may have been to the old stadium when I was too young to remember, but I am not sure. I love Yankee Stadium and when the 40-50 Yankees of the past show up to say good bye it will be a remarkable moment.
Besides all the pure baseball moments, the Stadium was home to the Greatest Football Game ever played (Colts beat Giants). The Game where Knute Rockne apparently gave his “and win just one for the Gipper.” speech was at Yankee Stadium when they were facing Army there for there Annual Game in 1928.
Then of course, there is the most famous speech in Sports History, Lou Gehrig’s farewell, “Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth” given by the dying Gehrig on July 4th, 1939.
Jim
I’ll also be pulling for the Yanks tonight. Mind you, I won’t be terribly sad if they lose (as it’ll clinch a playoff berth for the Sox), but a Yankee win would be more… poetic. Rivalries aside, it’s a great franchise closing out a great stadium.
Here’s to history.
Go Yankees.
Thanks.
I am watching the super long extended pre-game and they confirmed the Gipper speech was at Yankee Stadium. They also included one I am ashamed I left off, the very famous Joe Lewis Defeat of Max Schmeling that according to legend discedited the Nazi doctrine of “Aryan superiority.”
I’m not as worked up as I thought I’d be. They’re moving across the parking lot, not to Jersey. I love the current stadium and have spent some of my most happy days and nights there (including Game 6 of the '96 Series.) But I’m certain the new building will be awesome, and it’s the same drive or subway ride. Just an upgrade.
Wouldn’t it be kind of fitting for the Yankees to be eliminated tonight? It is the end of an era in multiple ways.
First, I would like to note that was your 666th post.
Second, it would be far more appropriate for Mariano Rivera to close out the game with a save.
You’re just jealous of their thundersticks.
OK, OK: Are you willing to share a media market with them, then? “Five of the six teams from the 3 biggest media markets”? Mm, catchy. Forget it, post withdrawn. Imagine the linguistic hurdles we’d be going through if Steinbrenner moved the Yankees to Jersey.
My Mets-fan family is full of wounded Dodger fans.
Good luck to the crosstown rivals, by the way, I think they should take this one for posterity. Oddly, the 2 Yankee fans in my band are way more irked by the stadium being torn down than by missing the postseason. Although I suspect part of that might be because it’s the Rays in first they think it’s all a bad dream and are going to wake up on March 31st.
“‘I don’t know what next year holds for me, my future with the Giants,’ Aurilia said. ‘But if this is how I can go out in my last game at Dodger Stadium, with a hit like that, it would be pretty cool.’”
Hmm…Giants knock out the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks make the playoffs…I’ll take it.
If the Tigers get swept by KC they could go into last place. What a step down from where we started.
I never thought I’d say these words but:
GO CUBS GO!!! [sub](for your next four games only)[/sub] Beat those Mets!!! [sub](and then go into the tank)[/sub]
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, here. You guys have a lot of work to do against the Cards this week.
Still, I was at that game yesterday. I have rarely been that frustrated with the Dodgers’ offense, and the Dodgers have had some BAD offense in recent years. Credit to all the pitchers on both sides of yesterday’s game, but still – bases loaded with nobody out, and not even a sac fly, guys? C’mon.
ETA: Troy, credit to your boys, seriously. Even the game we won, you guys would NOT go away quietly. It was hard to tell which team at Dodger Stadium was the playoff contender this weekend.
Tonight Brandon Webb won the Cy Young award.
D-backs ahead in the bottom of the 7th. 2 on, Albert Pujols up. Webb strikes him out.
If the D-backs hold on and win, Webb gets win 22 and should win the NL Cy Young award.
Red Sox lost, Yanks stay alive one more night.
Mets Lost and Phillies won. Mets are 2 games back in the NL East and 1 game up in the Wild Card over the Brewers who were idle.
D-backs win. Webb probably locked up the Cy Young. We’re putting pressure on the Dodgers.
Diamondbacks and the playoffs?
I read an article this morning that put the D-backs odds at 7% to make it in. Six games left for each of us, now, and you have to win at least three more than we do. I still like our chances, even if you guys are hot right now.
More importantly the Rays magic number is now down to 4. I’d hate to see the Yankees get in, especially since they owned us this year. Fortunately it absolutely will not happen.
I fart in the general direction of Brewers fans as the lowly Reds make your life miserable…