APRIL
10, 2005 --
The temperature reading at a nearby sign was 46 degrees, at game time, but outside
Yankee Stadium, April 3rd, it felt a lot colder than that.
The Yankees were at home against the Boston Red Sox for the 2005 season opener,
and on hand were famed bandleader Skitch Henderson, CBS News correspondent Mike
Wallace, and Saturday Night Live chief Lorne Michaels.
LPR also spotted former Gov. Mario Cuomo, Tony Danza, Lorraine Bracco and Bill
O'Reilly on hand for the chilly opening game (won by the Yankees, 9-2).
LPR spoke briefly with City Council Speaker A. Gifford Miller, before the game,
about plans for the west side
stadium. Mr. Miller indicated his doubts that the stadium will be constructed
and wondered why it is not getting built in Queens, where, he suggested, it would
have wide support.
Mr. Miller also told LPR that he did not meet with the Evaluation Commission
of
the International Olympics Committee on its visit to New York City, in February.
PHOTOS FROM APRIL 3, 2005 -
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Larry
Lucchino, the very able and personable CEO of the Boston
Red Sox.
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Skitch
Henderson.
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Mike
Wallace.
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Lorne
Michaels.
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A
bundled fan.
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A
tv screen - photographed at "The
Dugout" a bar one block from Yankee Stadium, where it was a lot
warmer to follow the game than in the ballpark.
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That's
Yankee manager Joe Torre with midshipmen after the April
3 season opener.
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PHOTOS FROM APRIL 6, 2005 -
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Yankee
boss George Steinbrenner (l) with Tony Fantasia,
who has been with the Yankees since 1976.
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Four
Red Sox fans in front of the Yankee Store, at Yankee
Stadium,
on a milder day. (The Red Sox won the April 6 game, 7-3).
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The
Difference between late and early: On the roadway
near Yankee Stadium, cars in pre-game traffic jam.
Below, early arrivals relaxing before the game.
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PHOTOS FROM APRIL 8, 2005 -
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Derek
Jeter arriving at the ballpark, April 8, looking
fit after leaving the game, April 6 after getting
hit by a pitch. (The Yankees lost to Baltimore, but
Jeter got three hits.)
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Fans
reacting to seeing Derek Jeter walk in front of them.
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Baltimore
Orioles Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer, going to
Yankee Stadium to broadcast the game
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Hideki
Matsui, jogging to the ballpark from the Yankee parking
lot, April 8.
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Jaret
Wright before his first start for the Yankees, April
8. Wright got slammed about as hard from The New
York Times as from the Baltimore Orioles. (Wright
left the game in the fifth inning, giving up 6 earned
runs to the Orioles. The Yankees lost 12 - 5.) Times
writer Jack Curry had Wright imagining that he would
pitch "superbly" and get "his first
rousing ovation in the Bronx." Mr. Curran then
reported that fans booed
Wright when he left the game. Is there a new journalism course called
Conjecture and Speculation as Part of Straight Reporting?
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Yankee
Stadium seen in the background.
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