Yankee Stadium

by Ray Robinson and Christopher Jennison

Book Overview

Chronicles the greatest players, events, and games of the stadium's first seventy-five years, complemented by boxed features and reminiscences by baseball greats and observers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670870935
• ISBN13: 9780670870936
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Nice book, but not enough emphasis on stadium history/facts

While this is a beautiful book and still well worth the money, I was a bit disappointed with the written history within. While the title says "Yankee Stadium", this is in essence a chronological history of the Yankees, with a little more emphasis on the stadium (mainly in pictures and captions), than other books. Many of the photos are great (especially the image of DiMaggio overlooking a gutted stadium during renovations) and the captions are well written. But the text, in my opinion, glances over the details of the stadium. For example, the only mention of the fact that a major addition was added to the left field grandstand in 1928 was a small caption to a photo. Also, the renovations of 1974-75, which totally remodeled the stadium (and stripped it of much of it's old charm), is mentioned only briefly. Most of the text in the book is about the players and how the team did on the field, which would be fine if the book were titled "The Yankees". But I was hoping for the writing to be more focused on the stadium itself (stories from the builders, the vendors, and the players about the stadium; how the renovations were done, etc.) Alas, there is very little of this in the book. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars for the pictures and due to the fact there are so few other books solely about Yankee Stadium. I'm still waiting for the definitive history of Yankee Stadium (which sadly will replaced in 2009). This is not it.

Baseball's Cathedral

No other sports arena has housed the number of dramatic and historically significant events as the House That Ruth Built. Sure Fenway and Wrigley have their own special atmosphere but Yankee Stadium is undoubtedly as unique as the great Yankee teams that have called it home. No other stadium provides the same rush as you enter ...something about Yankee Stadium says loud and clear."this is the Big Leagues". This book captures much of the history and while to the baseball fan much may be familiar there are also some non-baseball moments that are equally important to the Stadium's story and these are documented and captured as well. This book was given to me as a gift and since I now live a long way from the Bronx gives me the opportunity to revisit the stadium of my youth when I need a fix. I get to the stadium for a couple of games every season and everytime I hear Bob Shephard's voice on the PA I know I'm home.

Ruth built it, Robinson wrote an entertaining book about it

Ray Robinson's, "Yankee Stadium: 75 Years of Drama, Glamor, and Glory" is a great primer into one of the most historic holy lands of sports. While it's undoubtedly famous for the team whose namesake it adorns, Yankee Stadium was also home to the New York (football) Giants for years, and it was the site for countless boxing matches and non-sporting events. But, of course, it's all about the Yankees and, exactly as Mr. Robinson puts it in his subtitle, the Drama, Glamor, and Glory. While not a comprehensive, exhaustive research style book, there is ample information and anecdotes to go along with the countless photographs, some of which are familiar and others which are quite unique. I hope that one day, when Mr. Robinson gets around to it, a newer edition will add one more important event that occurred at the Stadium: the resumption of the World Series in 2001, just weeks after the devestation of 9/11/2001.

Every True Yankee Fan's Second Home

This book is an absolute must for every Yankee fan. It leaves no doubt that Yankee Stadium is the single most prestigious piece of real estate in the history of American sports. To tell the history of the Yankees and Yankee Stadium is to essentially tell the history of baseball itself.More importantly, book appropriately emphasizes the non-baseball events that took place there, thus adding to the vast and diverse amount of memories that burn forever in the minds of those who have walked through its gates.The only blemish within the book are the panoramic pictures of the remodeled Stadium on pages 130-133. They are inverted. Otherwise, the rest of the pictures and drawings are spectacular.