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The Yankees had played their home games at The Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan since 1913, sharing the venue with the New York Giants. However, relations between the two teams were rocky, with the Giants harboring resentment towards the Yankees. In 1920, the Yankees acquired star slugger Babe Ruth. With the addition of Ruth that same year, the Yankees drew 1.3 million fans to the Polo Grounds, outdrawing the Giants. This exacerbated Giants owner Charles Stoneham, who now resented the Yankees even more, and precipitated his insistence that the Yankees find another place to play their home games.
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(Yankee Stadium Balcony Boxes - Gate 4- Yankee Stadium Blueprint - 1922)
Yankee Stadium opened in 1923. One of the unique features of the exterior of the new ballpark were a series of three 'balconies', lined up side by side, over each entrance of the historic building. Each balcony was adorned with three marble, terra cotta stone tablets. The middle terra stone sported the Yankees "NY" logo in the center of a beautiful flowing scroll. On each side of the "NY" terra cotta tablet was a similar styled scroll tablet, but this time .... instead of the "NY" logo .... two baseballs were front & center. The stitching of the two baseballs flowing ever so gently into each other also on a beautifully flowing scroll.
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(Close Up Photo - Yankee Stadium Balcony Box)
The Gates located at East 157th Street & River Avenue (Gate 6) & Behind home plate (Gate 4) were demolished during the renovation of 1974-75 to make way for the new escalator 'pods' that were installed to be used in Renovated Yankee Stadium. Hard to believe today, but many of the artifacts from the Old Stadium, like these beautiful & ornate terra cotta tablets, were considered 'trash' in 1973 & not worthy of saving. Few survived.
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(Yankee Stadium Balcony Boxes @ Gate 2 - May 2009)
The owner of this terra cotta tablet was one of the head supervisors on the Yankee Stadium
renovation project. He has been in possession of this amazing piece of Yankee Stadium history
since 1974. This terra cotta stone has never been offered for sale previously.
Needless to say it's more than worthy of being displayed in the Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, New York ...... but it CAN be the centerpiece of YOUR Yankee collection today!
To say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity would probably be the understatement of the year!
This will no doubt be your only chance to truly own a piece of baseball history from the most
famous sporting venue since the Roman Coliseum. As an added 'bonus',
there are multiple segments of original Yankee Stadium bricks embedded in the back of this stone!
When you buy a stadium brick that is proported to be from a ballpark, many collectors ....
in the back of their minds .... often wonder to themselves "I wonder if this brick REALLY
came from there??!" Well, there is NO doubt about the origin of these bricks,
nor this marble tablet from 'The House That Ruth Built' as well!
Price: Available On Request
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