Nostalgia for sale in the Bronx
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 02, 2008 
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After conducting some interviews in the clubhouse after the game yesterday, I got in the elevator to go back to the press box and there was a young man with a laundry cart full of dirty Yankee uniforms.
The laundry room is in the basement near the clubhouse, so this struck me as strange.
Turns out the Yankees, or one of their partners, will sell the uniforms from Opening Day. So for some large sum of money, you can get Jason Giambi’s unwashed pants. Good luck with that.
I imagine this sort of thing will go on all season. I remember covering playoff games at old Busch Stadium in St. Louis in 2005 and every item in the place was tagged for sale including the toilets. You could literally purchase a used toilet.
Imagine the demand for items from Yankee Stadium. Steiner Sports is actually selling Yankee Stadium dirt. Is there a market for dirt? Apparently so.
The City of New York owns the Stadium and it will be up to them to decide how the place is broken up. But at some point you’ll be able to get seats, bricks, signs, parts of the outfield wall, you name it.
There’s a little red sign in the press box where I sit that says “Journal News.” I’d think I’d rather have that instead of some dirt.
First dibs on the toilet seat.
Some people simply have too much money.
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bluejays crybaby/writer is complaining bc melky was alloud to play last night
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all of a sudden joel sherman is kissing melkys butt? didnt he rip him all offseason
I’ll take the dirt. Just kidding!!
My father has dirt from Ebbots Field.
I want to purchase the Bat — set it up in my back yard and tick off the neighbors. (No, zoning regs do not apply to me. I say so.)
A lot of the framed Yankee items on the QVC Yankee special have stadium dirt in them.
jko –
I did find this last paragraph telling though:
“Maybe it was meant to be that in the 84th and final home opener at Yankee Stadium the Bombers were destined to emerge on top and that the Yankee centre fielder, following in a long and illustrious line, including Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Bobby Murcer, Mickey Rivers, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon et al, that Cabrera should star.”
my roommate works for the engineering company on Shea & Yankee stadium. He works out at Citi Field everyday..
I’m hoping he can hook me up with some nails and seats!!
so weak that they don’t allow fans to just pull out some seats
Just goes to show that if someone has something to sell, there is always someone out there to buy it.
Oooh, I totally want Giambi’s unwashed pants.
“a long and illustrious line, including Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Bobby Murcer, Mickey Rivers, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon et al”
Rivers? Damon? How do these guys fit in the same category of illustrious Yankees with DiMaggio?
KC finally breaks through. RBI double for Jose “If Melky doesn’t have to serve his suspension, I don’t have to serve mine” Guillen.
A lot of the good stuff will be claimed by the players and staff.
Ill take the right field squirrell. The Angels have rally monkeys. We have the squirrell.
YOU FINALLY WOKE UP, PETE! YAY!
jko
I was joking with someone today that they’ll have to check people for screw drivers on the last game.
I’ll also take the gum under the Yankees bench. Maybe a number or two from the outfield if there isnt any room to move accross the street.
I’ll take anything, are you kidding me?
Okay, maybe not the dirt, but still…
but has the ‘Journal News’ nameplate ever been touched by a yankee during a game?
“I’ll take anything, are you kidding me? Okay, maybe not the dirt, but still…”
Hey Rebecca, I think all this hoopla is is about the dirt, and other such banal building blocks of this grand Stadium.
So what is changing next year?
-What team will be residing in the new Stadium?
-In what city will the new stadium be located?
-OK, in what part of the city will it be located?
-What are the field dimensions of the new stadium?
-what legends, memories and history will be on people’s minds in the new stadium?
-What’s the name of the new stadium?
It’s literally all about the dirt.
i remember being at the game as a kid (91-ish) and taking some chips of blue paint off of the right field wall. kept them in my wallet and gave some to a friend who liked the yankees too.
i think i got rid of the paint chips when that wallet wore out and was replaced, but i recently spoke to the friend and he still has his.
I sat along the third baseline once, reached over, and grabbed me some dirt. I still got my dirt right above my TV for when I watch games.
I want one of the beer taps to remind me where all of my money went.
Was at the last night’s game… took a small piece of lose concrete from Tier 30. Will cherish it always. Heh.
eh, loose. not lose. right.
KC up 4-0 over Detroit in the 9th
Now I have the Red Hot Chili Peppers in my head all day singing “I Like Dirt”
I know someone who is very very weathly. And he said he and others he knows will pay ANYTHING for a seat. Money is no object to some people. I wanted to ask him to buy me a seat too!
A buddy of mine has a pair of seats from Veterans Stadium in Philly. I would be interested in getting one or two from the Stadium…but at what cost? I would pay a grand for two, I think. That may be unrealistic though.
“I would be interested in getting one or two from the Stadium…I would pay a grand for two”
Wow, do some math. They can finance the new stadium* by selling off the old one piece by piece!
*or sign Sabathia or Texiera
Atta boy jk….now you’re talking.
I am saving up for a seat right now. Don’t tell my wife.
Yazman – it would be worth it.
come october when that place is rumbling with Joba on the mound, i will be fearing for my life in the upper deck knowing 162 people before me took a piece of concrete from under my seat!!
I got a friend of mine to grab me some grass from the outfield when he went on a stadium tour a few years ago. it’s in a ziploc baggie in my “memory box” (i’m a girl, we have those).
All – regarding stadium seats – dont trip over yourselves just yet lining up for these. Yankee stadium seats come up for auction all the time. There are maybe half a dozen major auction houses which list a Yankee stadium seat each year – most of these are original seats – either field level or curved back seats – single or double, original paint or refurbished, selling for between $500 and $2,000, depending on the condition.
The seats from this stadium will be plastic. Maybe that’s what you want. But be sure to check out the originals, too – you may find a better bargain, and from the original 1923 build to boot.
Yeah, I’m secretly saving up for a seat also. Don’t tell my wife either. I’ve seen a lot of the original seats go up for auction, but never for under $1,500. I really cant justify spending more than $750-1,000 on a seat though. We’ll see what the price is when they go on the block, and we’ll see how quick my logic changes.
I have dirt from Yankee stadium! I got it from the third base line after game 6 of the 1996 World Series! I have it in nice glass jars with the cap waxed on. I display it in my Yankee room. Yes, I am a homer, but i thought it was cool!
I will be buying several items from the stadium when they go on sale!
All the people who will buy pieces of concrete, toilet seats, dirt or other nonsense are suckers in my opinion. You pay $100 for tickets and $8 for a hot dog… Isn’t that enough?
Memories live on in your mind not in a piece of a chair.
Isn’t Brian McNamee also selling things to pay his bills?
Buying dirt from Yankee stadium is stupid but not as stupid as buying a Bruce Springsteen CD.
its horsecrap that the yankees are making money off the dismantling of the stadium…have you seen the prices at the new ball park? it was great to see in this weeks SI a couple and a kid walking off the field with a couple of yankee seats back in 1973…
are you kidding me? rofl $500 – $2000 for a pair of seats wtf!?…
people really like giving money away.. so so sad