Should Yankee stadium be kept open as a museum?

Question

I think so. It's a living part of history. If it is knocked down I would like to get a piece of it. A brick or maybe even some dirt from the field would be nice.

How much would you pay to get in if it were a museum?

Red Sox's fans need not answer. We all know what you think... haters.

They could pay for it by booking concerts and events at the stadium. Billy Joel played there once and I believe there used to be wrestling matches there at one time. Just an example of how they could make money off of it.

I couldn't have put it any better myself. Except for the called shot being at Wrigley and perhaps mentioning Jeter's flip to Posada to nail Giambi at the plate for the greatest defensive play in a World Series EVER!!

Congrats on the 10 points, the answer touched me and brought back so many memories. Hopefully, there will be some final October memories next year... how fitting would it be??

Answer 1

There are shrines and then there are shrines.

Yankee Stadium is more than just part of the New York skyline and profile. Yankee Stadium is the House the Ruth Built, for goodness sake!

I don't like the Yankees, and New York gives me the willies when I visit, but Yankee Stadium is part, the very foundation of all that was good back in the day when America needed the sport.

Ruth revolutionized America's pastime by stepping out of the norm and putting on seemingly super-human displays in the hallowed stands and on hallowed ground.

When the Iron Horse stood there to let us know he was the luckiest man on the face of the Earth, despite me not even being born, you cannot help but shiver as you pass through that space (I have!).

When Mr. October, love him or hate him, donned those pinstripes and turned baseball on in its ear in 1978 . . .

Bernie Williams . . .

Mickey Mantle . . .

Joltin' Joe D . . . talk about an American icon when we needed one. And married to the best looking dame ever!!!

Yogisms . . .

Jeter . . . the sport's most consistent pretty boy . . .

Goose . . .

Ron Guidry and that awesome year . . .

I mean, talk about a shrine of Americana! More people have enjoyed a hot dog and a beer watching a successful franchise, day in and day out.

Yeah, I think it should stand. I'd pay to get in again once its gone to walk its halls and stand on second, imagine Ruth's called shot at home, and try to flip two with Billy Martin or Willie Randolph at second.

Yeah.

Answer 2

Absolutely! There was a question awhile ago along these same lines. I had mentioned then that with so much history attached to that ball park not only could a museum be part of it, also restaurants as well as movie theaters constantly running the Yankees greatest moments in history. They could also show complete world series games and of course the "gift shops".

Let the people actually have a chance to walk on the field like we use to do as kids after a game. The fans would get the chance to stand where all the immortal Yankees stood.

I think it's a great idea. There are a few ball parks that should always be part of baseball. Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and of course Yankee Stadium. It's too bad that Ebbets Field is gone. There was so much history in that ball park as well.

Answer 3

Hey Now I am a Red Sox fan and i want to answer this because its not about a team is about history. If there were a vote to be held nation wide for preserving Yankee stadium I'd vote to keep it up and not have it be parking lots or whatever it will be. so much history is gone as far as ballparks go, after so much commercialization in parks its very tough to find a true park. As of this moment only 4 parks remain that are for the die hard baseball fans. Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and now closed Tiger Stadium. so really after the Yankee move into the new park only two team will have true historic parks being used. So as a Baseball fan that sucks.

Answer 4

I hate the Yankees(don't care much about Red Sox either) and that being said, I absolutely treasured my two games(so far) at Yankee Stadium. It is a piece of Americana, not just for baseball, but for the nation.
I probably won't get any more visits there, being that next season is the last.
I can't believe that anyone would allow that piece of history to be demolished. The day that happens will be a sad day for me and America.
I am a Cubs fan through and through and I feel the same way about Fenway and Wrigley. At least Chicago is doing whatever they can to stay there as long as possible.

Answer 5

No. Do you know how much it costs to keep a stadium in good condition? With no baseball there there will be little money coming in even as a museum. Save the monuments and put some type of little park around them. Sell off the parts of the stadium while its worth something. Like you said people would buy it.

Ask Detroit what happens when you drag your feet on tearing down an old out of date stadium. They saved it hoping to let high schools play there, make it a museum, leave the field and surrounded by offices and condos in the stadium part. Tiger Stadium is still standing, looks horrible, and is costing the city millions a year to keep it standing. To make it worth anything or even clean it up enough to open to the public would cost millions more.

Answer 6

I cannot imagine that Yankee Stadium could be destroyed. I am a huge baseball fan and have never been to New York, I hate the Yankees, but would be severely disappointed to learn that my chance to see a place where so much history of the game I love has taken place. It is already a museum the question is really whether or not to tear it down. I hope it will always be there.

Answer 7

It should be kept open as the home of the Yankees. But Steinbrenner wants to build "The House That George Built" because he hasn't got much time left and wants to create something that will live on. Anyone who suggests knocking down Yankee Stadium clearly isn't a baseball fan, and should be banned from baseball for life. You don't see any politicians suggesting knocking down the White House, do you?

Answer 8

Umm to the post about imagining Ruth's called shot at home, that happened at Wrigley not Yankee Stadium. And yes it would be cool if they even left part of it standing. The memories I have of the stadium from when I was younger, going there with my since departed grandparents it'd be a shame to see it go.

Answer 9

properly, in the event that they saved it open for enjoying who could play there? The Yankees for sure does not waste a a million Billion dollar field they only equipped to play there. i've got in no way been to massive apple city, yet i bypass to assume that Yankees Stadium is on some best actual supplies and shutting it down/demolishing it is going to help financially offset the fee tag of the Stadium for the taxpayers who backed the recent stadium.

Answer 10

Absolutely, but they are knocking it down to some degree. They are salvaging the grandstand and keeping the field. I believe that is what they are doing. I think they are turning the inside underneath the grandstand into a Yankee museum of some sort or another. The field is the important part, and that is being preserved.