MAY
2, 2007 --
First
-- for fans going to Yankee Stadium: you are not permitted to bring
large bags or backpacks into the ballpark.
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Bag
Check
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There
is no baggage check in Yankee Stadium. An accompanying photo shows
a baggage check facility on River Avenue, behind the right-field
stands.
Yankee Stadium as we now know it has two seasons to go. The venue rapidly rising
on the other side of 161st Street is due to open for the 2009 season.
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View
of the construction site of the new Yankee Stadium …
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Only a few weeks
ago, LPR was able to photograph the construction site from the platform
of the IRT subway station (elevated from the 161st Street stop to
the
Woodlawn station near the Yonkers line.).
Now, the new structure's frame obstructs the view. This does not mean, however,
that the new ballpark will be completed for next season. LPR has heard the
it will
take at least a year to do the electrical wiring.
LPR was at Yankee Stadium April 28, stopping first at the Press Gate and then
walking along River Avenue outside the right-field stands and center-field
bleachers.
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Walking
along the side of Yankee Stadium …
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IRT
- Yankee Stadium - on April 28, 2007.
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On
River Avenue …
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The IRT Woodlawn line (No. 4 train) runs above River Avenue, The east side of
River Avenue, opposite the ballpark, is lined with souvenir shops and sports
bars. And at the other side of the shops and bars are
neighborhood apartment buildings.
Yankee Stadium is truly an urban neighborhood's fixture -- not an island
at the fringe of a city surrounded by a vast parking moat.
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Yankee
Stadium at the end of the block …
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The new stadium will also
be a neighborhood fixture -- on the other side of 161st Street.
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Bob
Shepard, the Yankees' public address announcer since April
17, 1951, going to work, April 28 -- 56 years later.
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Jorge
Posada on April 28, outside of Yankee Stadium.
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The Yankees defeated
Boston 3-1, April 28, with Jorge Posada hitting a two-run home run after
LPR photographed him heading from the players' parking lot to his workplace.
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Mike
Timlen of the Red Sox
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No
more Damon …
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Still
a Damon Fan …
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A lot of adults wore
team attire -- Red Sox fans as well as Yankee fans. If major league baseball
required all persons at games to wear some form of team attire -- caps,
jackets, sweatshirts, uniform shirts or t-shirts, protest likely would
not rise above a murmur -- if that. Perhaps, never in the history of human
sports events
have so many adults worn so much team memorabilia to cheer so extraordinarily
well-paid few.
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Fans
from Rhode Island
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Fan
from Massachusetts
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A
Fan from Maine
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