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By Cliff Rold - It’s not the “House that Ruth Built” anymore. Not quite. Old Yankee Stadium is gone now, the latest casualty of the encroachment of tomorrow. There will be those who say it’s about greed, about money, damn the history.
They’d be right.
History doesn’t pay as well as luxury boxes. It isn’t erased by new structures either and, as New York sports fans well know, the name is where the value ultimately lies.
Given its long existence, today’s Madison Square Garden probably feels like an inseparable part of the New York landscape. It’s not. It is simply the latest version of the Garden to exist, Garden IV for the purists.
Inside it’s hallowed halls though, it’s just the Garden. Even if all the spirits inside it may not have played on the very same court, may not have battled at the very same ring center, it’s still the Garden. The legacy of the name is as valuable as the ground itself.
It is with that feeling that this Saturday’s HBO show will take place. The sight lines might not be what they were for Gehrig and Mantle, for Ali and Norton, but by God it’s still Yankee Stadium. It will say so on the ticket stubs. [Click Here To Read More]
They’d be right.
History doesn’t pay as well as luxury boxes. It isn’t erased by new structures either and, as New York sports fans well know, the name is where the value ultimately lies.
Given its long existence, today’s Madison Square Garden probably feels like an inseparable part of the New York landscape. It’s not. It is simply the latest version of the Garden to exist, Garden IV for the purists.
Inside it’s hallowed halls though, it’s just the Garden. Even if all the spirits inside it may not have played on the very same court, may not have battled at the very same ring center, it’s still the Garden. The legacy of the name is as valuable as the ground itself.
It is with that feeling that this Saturday’s HBO show will take place. The sight lines might not be what they were for Gehrig and Mantle, for Ali and Norton, but by God it’s still Yankee Stadium. It will say so on the ticket stubs. [Click Here To Read More]
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