#OTD 2008- Last Game Played @ Historic NY Yankee Stadium
To mark this date, we share a variety of NY Yankees-related records.
YANKEE FAN IN SPACE!
STS-132 Mission Specialist/Yankees fan Garrett Reisman on the end of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System, Expedition 23, 5/17/2010. NARA ID 23602397.
9/11: World Series & A President’s Pitch
George W. Bush said nothing to the crowd the night he took the mound at Yankee Stadium [on October 30, 2001], only a few miles from where he had shouted through a bullhorn to people digging through the wreckage of the World Trade Center less than two months earlier.
Wearing a bulletproof vest, the president flashed a thumbs-up to the crowd, then threw a perfect strike before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was a signal to the country that the healing could begin.
“It was so moving, so powerful, that it lifted our nation,” sportscaster Jim Gray said Sunday night at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. “What President Bush told us without uttering a single word, was that we could once again attempt to carry on our lives. … What an amazing symbol it was.” Dallas Morning News.
President Bush (43) arrives at Yankee Stadium on Marine One, NARA ID 5997392.
President Bush (43) throws the first pitch 10/30/2001.
YOGI BERRA PROMOTES WAR BONDS!
Treasury Dep't. poster with Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, 1951. NARA ID 23889731.
BABE AND THE IRON HORSE
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig pose together on a visit to West Point, 5/6//1927.
HOOVER AND JOE DIMAGGIO!
Former president Hoover with Joe DiMaggio, 8/8/1959.
More baseball records online:
Special Topics page: Baseball at the National Archives
eBook: Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives
Senator JFK's remarks at Yankee Stadium, 4/29/1956.
10 Football Facts Featuring U.S. Presidents, Pieces of History.
9/11: The World Series and a President’s pitch, Pieces of History
Play Ball, Mr. President! Pieces of History
Lou Gehrig’s Final Season in the News, Unwritten Record.
Old Timers’ Day, Yankee Stadium, 8/8/1959, Hoover Heads.
