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's just go with it.

Whether it was 74,000 or 58,000, it was the largest ever crowd to attend a baseball

game.

Reading 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 3pm.

According to the New York evening telegram, everything smelled the fresh paint, fresh plaster,

and fresh grass.

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