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One Last Curtain Call …

JULY 22, 2008 --

One last curtain call...

Yankee Stadium I with AL Division East flags.

Flag at Yankee Stadium shows Boston leading the A.L. Division East on All Star day.  

Another view of Yankee Stadium I with AL Division East flags - 161st Street view.

Parking charge for the All Star game. (Ordinary days the charge is $8.)

Shortly before the All-Star Game fans were still hoping to get tickets.

Upper deck of Yankee Stadium, July 15, before the All Star game.
DIRECTV blimp overhead, July 15.

Goodyear blimp over the two Yankee Stadiums, July 14.  (On July 15, the DIRECTV blimp had replaced Goodyear, overhead.)

Yankee Stadium decked out for the All Star game, seen from Manhattan, July 14.

Yankee Stadium II glaring at Yankee Stadium across 161st street

View (looking west) of the two ballparks, separated by 161st Street, July 15.

The sign that  that normally refers to the game to be played the Stadium memorialized longtime Yankee player and broadcaster Bobby Murcer who passed away at age 62, three days before the All-Star game.