Post by Fish Troll on Jan 16, 2007 21:01:13 GMT -5
Yankee Stadium will be the site of the 2008 All-Star Game, sources in baseball said, in the last year of the ballpark.
The new Yankee Stadium is scheduled to open in 2009, and old Yankee Stadium closed, 86 years after the ballpark was first built in 1923, and 33 years after the ballpark was remodeled on the same site in 1976. With the All-Star Game slated to be in an AL park in 2008, officials chose Yankee Stadium for the site, believing it to be an appropriate way to usher out the historic building.
The All-Star Game has been held in Yankee Stadium three times previously, the last time in 1977.
An announcement on the selection of Yankee Stadium is expected in the days ahead, perhaps next week, with Major League Baseball coordinating with the Mayor's office in New York.
Next summer's All-Star Game will be played in San Francisco, and on Monday night, Commissioner Bud Selig formally announced that the 2009 All-Star Game will be played in St. Louis.
The new Yankee Stadium is scheduled to open in 2009, and old Yankee Stadium closed, 86 years after the ballpark was first built in 1923, and 33 years after the ballpark was remodeled on the same site in 1976. With the All-Star Game slated to be in an AL park in 2008, officials chose Yankee Stadium for the site, believing it to be an appropriate way to usher out the historic building.
The All-Star Game has been held in Yankee Stadium three times previously, the last time in 1977.
An announcement on the selection of Yankee Stadium is expected in the days ahead, perhaps next week, with Major League Baseball coordinating with the Mayor's office in New York.
Next summer's All-Star Game will be played in San Francisco, and on Monday night, Commissioner Bud Selig formally announced that the 2009 All-Star Game will be played in St. Louis.
The following is from ESPN.com written by Buster Olney
Good idea to be able to see Yankees Stadium 1 last time before they bomb it down. Still it'll still be nice if they send some of the stadium parts down here to South Florida before they do blow it.
