From 1949 to 1958, New York teams represented 16 of the 20 teams in the World Series, winning nine. In this four-year period, ...

He did homer in the first game there on April 18, 1923. "In the third inning ... build their new stadiums next to the old ones. The new Yankee Stadium resembled the old one and cost $2.3 billion ...

According to a 1939 story in the New York World-Telegram, Pipp showed up at Yankee Stadium with a splitting headache and asked the team trainer for two aspirin. Manager Miller Huggins told him, “Wally ...

But no stadium in the current era can match the old Yankee Stadium, pre-1976 renovation. Center field was 487 feet away when the original Stadium opened in 1923. As for left-center, it was ...

1926 — At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth hit back-to-back homers ... Eller struck out eight and walked three. 1923 — Setting several Pacific Coast League records, Pete Schneider of Vernon ...

2000 — Australia’s Susie O’Neill breaks the oldest record in international swimming, winning the 200-meter butterfly and beating the 1981 mark by Mary T. Meagher. O’Neill is timed in 2 minutes, 5.81 ...

Yankee Stadium is the fourth permanent home of the franchise, following Hilltop Park (1903-12), the Polo Grounds (1913-22), ...