It's a sad, yet happy day in the baseball world friends. The true Cathedral for all sporting events ( and more ) hosted it's final game last night. Of course I am referring to Yankee Stadium. The home to 26 Yankee Championship Teams. Sure it's a stadium that has housed some of the biggest names in Baseball history, from The Babe to Derek Jeter, all of the Yankee greats played here. But it is much more that that. Three Papal visits, Concerts, Championship Boxing, and "The Greatest Football Game" ever. It's much more than a building, it is truly the worlds most famous venue to hold an event. It's easy to point at some of the biggest games and championship seasons as the best moments but for the Oface it's a few games in the 2001 World Series that showed the healing power of sports and the magic of "The Stadium" With the country still reeling from the tragic ( and cowardly ) events of September 11, the Yankees and D'backs gave the country a few moments to cheer and possibly believe that we can over come.
Everyone has their own "best of " moments but to me, it was those games played in the stadium during that world series. No matter how majestic, how spectacular, no matter what new memories are forged in the new building, there is no replacing The House that Ruth Built.....
