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A quiet preseason day at Stan’s Sports Bar, long a central watering hole for Yankee fans
THIRTY feet. That is the distance between the entrance of Stan’s Sports Bar at 158th Street and River Avenue and the faded black sign affixed to the side of Yankee Stadium that says “Bleacher Entrance.” It is a third of the length between first and second base, easy strolling distance for the droves of Yankee fans who crowded in religiously each baseball season.
And for 30 years, this archetypal American sports bar, with wooden baseball bats as its door handles and sketches of Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig on its walls, has been a prime piece of Bronx real estate.
Until the Yankees moved across the street, and then it wasn’t.
Not every construction site has a limestone and granite fixture so grand that it looks as if it were built 85 years ago, which is the whole point. It says something about the spirit of the new ballpark going up in the Bronx that the brilliant gold letters literally are carved in stone: “YANKEE STADIUM.”
“We’re bringing the ghosts with us,” said Lonn Trost, chief operating officer of the Yankees, who yesterday conducted the first full-scale media tour of the place that was inspired by The House That Ruth Built next door.
By “ghosts,” he meant all the tradition, the legends, the good memories and the larger-than-life aura that all say “Yankee.”
So the elegant vaulted arches are back at the entrance at Gate 4, and there are spots for the round eagle crests that were there on Opening Day in 1923. About half of the fabled white curved frieze (what fans used to call the façade) already is up, ringing the top of the grandstand as it did in the original Stadium.
Most of all, the park itself says “Yankee.” Trost said that early in the planning process, he talked toGeorge Steinbrenner about selling the naming rights, the way most stadiums and arenas have done. It could have meant as much as $50 million a year, Trost said, but the club’s hierarchy said the place just wouldn’t be the same.
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