Historic Walls: Yankee Museum at the Stadium

A Must See for All Fans (New York, NY) – So some of the FNY Sec 430 team got to swing through the museum.  Given that we’ve been going to the new stadium since the opening in 2009 it was high time to actually see all the history grouped nicely in a small space.  See [...]

Mar 2 – Say It Ain’t So: Old Section 22 Final Days

(Bronx, NY) – Sorry to be the bearer of bad news or images but thanks to Warren F. we have a few views to contemplate in the waning days of winter of 2010.    The old stadium moves closer to the memory pile and the rock pile.  There is an excellent shot of FNY’s old seats [...]

Sep 16 – Priced to Sell? Yanks Announce New Ticket Prices for Next Year

Sensitivity (or reasoning) Come in to Play as Reductions Abound (New York, NY) – Seems the Yanks have listened to the noise and reacted again and are fixing the wrong of 2009 to be right in 2010.  CNBC is reporting the following: Some of the highest price seats will see reductions of up to 40 [...]

Jun 29 – Save Yankee Gate2 Rally on June 30th

(New York, NY) – This sent in from the team trying to Save Old Gate 2. Thank you so much for your messages.  We apologize for the delay in responding to some of them.  We’ve been very busy with our Gate 2 activities!  But the ideas contributed by everybody have been excellent and very helpful, [...]

May 22 – Air Traffic Controller Needed: 161st and River Ave

(Bronx, NY) – WIth the 7 dingers hit in the opener between the Yanks and Phillies there have now been 82 homers in 21 games at the new stadium.    That’s just under an average of 4 a game and on pace for a 316 home run season, where last year the old stadium yielded 160 [...]

May 1 – Save (old) Yankee Gate 2

New Initiative To Preserve Some History (Bronx, NY) – Our friend Chris, from 161st Blog (click here), recently pointed us to some new information: There is a drive to preserve the old Yankee Stadium Gate 2 and incorporate it into the proposed new field and park to be created when the old stadium is torn [...]

Apr 22 – Is the Wind Really a Factor? Too Early to Tell

(Bronx, NY) – This is a short post that may serve as a foundation for follow-ups the next home stand.  Anyhow with all the talks on the wind as a factor with the number of homers here is a quick recap using the boxscores from Yahoo Sports for the recent 6 game homestand.  Note: If [...]

Apr 20 – Some More Right Field Comments

(Bronx, NY) – There has been a ton of talk about the new stadium, both positive and negative.  Here is an interesting view from our friends at the Yankees Blog at Lohud.Com.  Sometimes you just have to point to them but feel free to comment here as well. The old Stadium had a walkway alongside [...]

Apr 17 – New Stadium, New Section

The Crew from 22 Checkout Section 430 (Bronx, NY)- Well the Friday Nite Yanks started this season off in the bright daylight, but it was excellent.  The entire Sec 22 crew was not there with James, Jim Sr. and John all unable to come but the other 7 made it along with their guests (Jim [...]

Apr 16 – The New Stadium Opens

(Bronx, NY) – The new stadium opened today and was as grand and spectacular as expected.  There will be extensive coverage tomorrow as the Section 22/430 crew makes its debut for the 2nd game ever and still and video pictures will be forthcoming. In the meantime here is a list of historical ‘firsts’ at the [...]