Say Good-Bye to Two New York City MLB Baseball Stadiums and Their Memories |
| 3/22/2008 2:47:06 PM |
 Yankee Stadium 1926  Shea Stadium
New York City is constantly reinventing itself. The House that Ruth Built and the stadium where the Beatles performed in 1965 will see their last days after the 2008 MLB baseball season. Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium will have completely new homes for the New York Yankees and the Mets respectively. Their final days will go out with a bang. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate mass at Yankee Stadium April 20 and the All-Star Game July 15. Shea Stadium will host sold-out concerts for Billy Joel On July 16 and 18.
Seats for the finall MLB baseball games at both stadiums were sold out quickly. Some seats on the internet exceeded $10,000. Both stadiums will be torn down at the end of the 2008 baseball season and the city will auction the pieces as memorabilia. The new stadiums are going up right next to the old ones.
The New York Yankees new home will look like the original 1923 building with a granite and limestone exterior and the familiar frieze above the grandstand. It will cost $1.3 billion and have 51 luxury suites, a club suite, legends suite, a main level outdoor suite, a terrace level outdoor suite and eight party suites appropriate for weddings and bar mitzvahs.
The Mets new home in Queens, formerly called Shea Stadium, will be renamed Citi Field, thanks to a $20 million a year deal with Citibank. The arched brick facade will look like Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, at a cost of $800 million. It will have 54 luxury suites, 10 of which will be 18 rows from home plate.
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