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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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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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