What's up and welcome to a history edition of the Bronx Pins Tribe show. Today, a brief history of Yankee Stadium.

Governors, generals, colonels, politicians, and baseball officials gathered together solemnly yesterday to dedicate the biggest stadium in baseball. But it was a ball player who did the

real dedicating.

In the third inning, with two teammates on the baselines, Babe Ruth smashed a savage home

run into the right field bleachers, and that was the real baptism of the new Yankee Stadium.

That also won the game for the Yankees, and all the ceremony which had gone before was only

a trifling preliminary. That was published in the

New York Times on April 19, 1923. And that's how it began. 74,200 people attended the first baseball game

at the original Yankee Stadium. Now, I don't know how that was possible, considering the capacity

was listed at 58,000. But let how that was possible, considering the capacity was listed

at 58,000, but let's just go with it. Whether it was 74,000 or 58,000, it was the largest ever

crowd to attend a baseball game, exceeding the previous record of 42,000 for a 1916 World Series game.

The team announced that 99,200 people showed up and they had to

turn away 25,000 disappointed fans as the gates closed at 3 p.m. According to the New York

Evening Telegram, everything smelled of fresh paint, fresh plaster, and fresh grass. Wow,

don't you just feel like you were there from that description?

Some people say there have been two Yankee stadiums with 2008-2009 being the cutoff. But that's not

really true. I consider there to have been three. The original Yankee Stadium, the one built in

1923, the old Yankee Stadium, the renovated version that opened in 1976, and then the new Yankee Stadium, the one built in 1923, the old Yankee Stadium, the renovated version that opened

in 1976, and then the new Yankee Stadium, which that explanation is obvious. The reason for this is

because the changes made in the 70s were so drastic that it really was a new building. You'll see what I

mean later, but I wanted to just set that up, so you know what I mean when I say original and when I say old. I kind of have an obsession with the original Yankee

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