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| Authors: Ray Robinson, Christopher Jennison
Publisher: Studio
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1144268
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 182
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0670870935
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570687471
EAN: 9780670870936
ASIN: 0670870935
Publication Date: April 1, 1998
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Condition: Minimal shelf wear, corners/edges slightly worn/bent, may contain minimal notes or highlighting, may not include companion materials like cdroms or access codes.
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Amazon.com Review
Forget the bleak news about Yankee Stadium falling down and the Bombers slipping across state lines to New Jersey. Yankee Stadium was there long before George Steinbrenner took over, and, says the smart money, it will remain there, the most famous of all sporting cathedrals, long after the Boss is gone. Since its opening in 1923, the stadium has been storied ground. The Yankees became a dynasty there. Tunney, Louis, Marciano, and Ali all fought for the heavyweight title there. Two of the greatest games in football history--the Army-Notre Dame scoreless tie of 1946 and the Sudden Death victory of the Colts over the Giants for the 1958 NFL Championship--chewed up the grass there. Pele scored goals there, two Popes offered mass there, Nelson Mandela was adored there, and Billy Joel, U2, and Pink Floyd all rocked the House that Ruth Built there. If ever a ballpark deserved to be venerated, it's this particular green patch of the South Bronx, and its 75th anniversary is duly noted and celebrated in this richly illustrated appreciation of the park, the players, the events, and the team that gave the place its hallowed name. It's an evocative volume. Interspersed throughout its historical text are lovely observations and reminiscences from such luminaries (on and off the field) as poet Marianne Moore, novelist James T. Farrell, violinist Itzhak Perlman, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, comic Billy Crystal, Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Mickey Mantle. It features stunning archival photos of the stadium's construction, a particularly haunting image of DiMaggio watching its reconstruction in the '70s, hosts of action and publicity shots that span the decades, and a beautiful essay by Pete Hamill on Babe Ruth's farewell. But it's Mel Allen, whose honeyed voice became synonymous with the Yankees from the late '30s through Casey Stengel's juggernauts and on into the '60s, who seems to capture the ethos of the place most clearly: "Suddenly," he remembers, "here I was, a guy supposed to practice law, broadcasting Yankee home games on radio from this mecca of baseball. This was the place, the number-one place in baseball. The stadium was like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of baseball, and every time I stepped inside of it I had to pinch myself!" In its own way, Yankee Stadium--dazzled as it is by its dazzling subject--manages to pinch itself pretty good as well. --Jeff Silverman
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 Nice book, but not enough emphasis on stadium history/facts May 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this is a beautiful book and still well worth the money, I was a bit disappointed with the written history within. While the title says "Yankee Stadium", this is in essence a chronological history of the Yankees, with a little more emphasis on the stadium (mainly in pictures and captions), than other books.
Many of the photos are great (especially the image of DiMaggio overlooking a gutted stadium during renovations) and the captions are well written. But the text, in my opinion, glances over the details of the stadium. For example, the only mention of the fact that a major addition was added to the left field grandstand in 1928 was a small caption to a photo. Also, the renovations of 1974-75, which totally remodeled the stadium (and stripped it of much of it's old charm), is mentioned only briefly.
Most of the text in the book is about the players and how the team did on the field, which would be fine if the book were titled "The Yankees". But I was hoping for the writing to be more focused on the stadium itself (stories from the builders, the vendors, and the players about the stadium; how the renovations were done, etc.) Alas, there is very little of this in the book.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars for the pictures and due to the fact there are so few other books solely about Yankee Stadium. I'm still waiting for the definitive history of Yankee Stadium (which sadly will replaced in 2009). This is not it.
 Baseball's Cathedral December 25, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No other sports arena has housed the number of dramatic and historically significant events as the House That Ruth Built. Sure Fenway and Wrigley have their own special atmosphere but Yankee Stadium is undoubtedly as unique as the great Yankee teams that have called it home. No other stadium provides the same rush as you enter ...something about Yankee Stadium says loud and clear."this is the Big Leagues".
This book captures much of the history and while to the baseball fan much may be familiar there are also some non-baseball moments that are equally important to the Stadium's story and these are documented and captured as well. This book was given to me as a gift and since I now live a long way from the Bronx gives me the opportunity to revisit the stadium of my youth when I need a fix. I get to the stadium for a couple of games every season and everytime I hear Bob Shephard's voice on the PA I know I'm home.
Ruth built it, Robinson wrote an entertaining book about it September 15, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ray Robinson's, "Yankee Stadium: 75 Years of Drama, Glamor, and Glory" is a great primer into one of the most historic holy lands of sports. While it's undoubtedly famous for the team whose namesake it adorns, Yankee Stadium was also home to the New York (football) Giants for years, and it was the site for countless boxing matches and non-sporting events. But, of course, it's all about the Yankees and, exactly as Mr. Robinson puts it in his subtitle, the Drama, Glamor, and Glory.
While not a comprehensive, exhaustive research style book, there is ample information and anecdotes to go along with the countless photographs, some of which are familiar and others which are quite unique. I hope that one day, when Mr. Robinson gets around to it, a newer edition will add one more important event that occurred at the Stadium: the resumption of the World Series in 2001, just weeks after the devestation of 9/11/2001.
 Nice Picture Book But Short On Content September 17, 1999
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Good pictures but not too much about the players, no stats, and not many pictures of surrounding areas. Not a great deal about Mickey Mantle, DiMaggio, etc
Every True Yankee Fan's Second Home August 16, 1999
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is an absolute must for every Yankee fan. It leaves no doubt that Yankee Stadium is the single most prestigious piece of real estate in the history of American sports. To tell the history of the Yankees and Yankee Stadium is to essentially tell the history of baseball itself.More importantly, book appropriately emphasizes the non-baseball events that took place there, thus adding to the vast and diverse amount of memories that burn forever in the minds of those who have walked through its gates. The only blemish within the book are the panoramic pictures of the remodeled Stadium on pages 130-133. They are inverted. Otherwise, the rest of the pictures and drawings are spectacular.
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