yankee stadium

     

Yankee Staium is a baseball stadium in New York City that is the home of the New York Yankees, a Major League baseball team. Located at East 161st Street and River Avenue in The Bronx, it has hosted Yankees home games since 1923 and has a capacity of 57,545. It was formerly the home of the New York Giants football team, and once hosted dozens of boxing's most famous fights.

Trivia about yankee stadium

  • It's the home stadium of the team that's won 25 World Series
  • Babe Ruth hit the first home run in this stadium when it opened April 18, 1923
  • Knute Rockne urged his team to win one for the Gipper at this "House That Ruth Built"
  • Roger Maris hit his 61st home run in 1961 in this stadium
  • N.Y. stadium that now seats 13000 fewer people than it did 15 years ago
  • "The House that Ruth Built"