The House that Ruth Built
This is a picture of the House that Ruth Built. I have been there and it looks nothing like what is today called Yankee Stadium. Look out in right field. You will see a very short line (294 ft.) and a low right field fence. This is why it was the house that Ruth built. It was designed for a left handed pull hitter like Ruth and latter Roger Maris. Anyone who hits straight away was almost never going to get a home run. Center field was a very long way away (not to mention the monuments that were in play). One of the great things about going to Yankee stadium was being friends with someone in the box office who would get you seats that were not behind a poll. Of course when you got there they always were behind a poll (pole), but at least you felt the upper deck was not going to fall on top of you.
I saw both Mantle and Maris play. Roger Maris hit a lot of home runs that went 3 or 4 rows back over that low 294 foot wall. I do not think he would have hit 61 in the current Yankee stadium. Lucky for him he was playing in the "House That Ruth Built".
4 comments:
Absolutely correct. As a big Yankee fan, even I find it silly that people think Jeter and Arod are playing on the same field as Mantle, DiMaggio or Ruth. What pisses me off is not a new stadium, it's how much cash Giuliani and Bloomberg have put in for it while the city asks us to cut the school budget. Ridiculous.
We all got letters in our mailboxes today telling us about the new school your old principal is gonna be in charge of. We can apply if we want to. I wonder how many will want to work for her. She sucks.
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Being behind a "poll" is almost as bad as being behind a "pole"
;)
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