I was just thinking the other day when I made my first visit to "old" Yankee Stadium. Two friends and myself had drove up to see a game between the Yankees and the the Red Sox. I was given the tickets from a friend that was a very big Yankee fan and had a package of tickets, but could not make this game that he had chosen as part of his package plan.
I was very excited to be going to Yankee Stadium, even though I was NO Yankee fan. I remember after walking into the stadium and just standing at the edge of the field in the lower box seats about two hours before game time and thinking about all of the great players that had played on that field. Then, we walked out behind the wall in the outfield and checked out the monuments. I never knew who Miller Huggins was until that day. In fact, I never even had heard of him.
For a real baseball fan at that time such I was, it was a real treat. Today, I am not such the big fan as I was back then. Like so many other people, I think big money really took a lot away from the game.
