A Bob Feller statue stands outside. Very cool, all of it. Yankee Stadium on the heels of Jacobs Field is not a pretty sight. For all the wonderful monuments to Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and Miller Huggins, there is the feel of, God forbid, Three Rivers Stadium or Veterans Stadium. You know, that '70s thing.
Quarters are cramped, concourses are narrow.
An amenity is when the guy next to you doesn't spill his beer on your pants. Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 and was almost completely rebuilt in 1974 and 1975. Compared with the new retro parks, its only charm is in its memories. These days, a new stadium is almost always built to make more money for an owner and not necessarily because the old structure is falling down. The shelf life of a stadium seems to be about 20 years, simply because owners and architects have figured out new revenue streams.