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On a rainy Saturday a group of young Bronx residents and former Yankee stars dug out home plate and the pitching rubber at Yankee Stadium.A group of Bronx youths along with Scott Brosius, Paul O’Neill, David Cone, and Jeff Nelson filled buckets with stadium dirt from the pitcher’s mound and the home plate area.

The dirt was then taken across the street to the new Yankee Stadium and mixed into the existing dirt around home and the mound.

With a symbolism that the supernatural tends to gravitate to, old memories and successes were blended into the new soil where the next Yankee dynasty will take root. Read more..

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A worker packs up retired numbers that are headed to the new Yankee Stadium. (New York Yankees)

NEW YORK — A glimpse into the old Yankee Stadium on Monday afternoon offered a shocking, albeit inevitable, sight. The various retired numbers that have helped infuse the ballpark with so much of its history lay scattered about on pieces of plywood, ready to ship out of their old home. There was no order, just a jumble of history. Construction workers officially began to disassemble Monument Park on Monday, in preparation for a move across the street to the new Yankee Stadium. And one of the more symbolic moves is yet to come, when the Yankees transport the monument of Babe Ruth to their new ballpark on Wednesday morning. Read more..

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Crew from ‘98 teams up with area kids in symbolic ceremony

NEW YORK — Paul O’Neill strode down a flight of concourse stairs at the new Yankee Stadium on Saturday, set his feet on the warning track — a rough, dirt expanse, still studded with rocks and a few small puddles — and took an exhaustive look around.

“Look at this joint, huh?” he said.

Out before him lay a baseball field, albeit an incomplete one, properly proportioned to match the dimensions of the old Yankee Stadium. Sod, with seams still showing, filled much of the area, and a large blue sign shouted the words “YANKEE STADIUM” from above center field. Waves of dark blue seats down the left-field line dumped into a still-unfinished section behind home plate, where metal supports hinted at where more seats are still to come.

And on the mound, roughly 60 area children helped cram some dirt from the old Yankee Stadium into the new one. Read more..

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