Chez Chesler

As I write, the Major League Baseball All-Stars are playing for the last time ever in the stadium where Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle played. Or so they tell me. Has everybody forgotten that New York City built Steinbrenner a new stadium in the early 1970s, while the City was going broke? If this 35-year-old stadium is the same as the stadium built in the 1920s, why won't the new Yankee Stadium, which I understand is situated on a different part of the same parcel, and which I presume will preserve features like the plaques of great players, also be the same stadium?

Labels: Yankee Stadium, Yankees