Yankee Stadium, baseball's cathedral, has showcased the century's immortal athletes and hosted some of its most famous non-athletes. Yankee Stadium, published in time for the stadium's seventy-fifth anniversary, is both a chronicle of a national temple of sport and a hometown history of the New York Yankees.This resplendent book brims with colorful characters on and off the field: managers, players, owners, and some of the greatest American sports heroes from Babe Ruth to Lou Gehrig, from Joe DiMaggio to Mickey Mantle. Momentous events mix with obscure but telling human incidents; the course of the great pennant races and World Series championships is touched with the reverie of timeless, long-ago summer afternoons.A chronological text is studded with boxed features highlighting special events, milestones, championship lists, and brief essays, comments, and reminiscences by baseball greats and other notables from Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto to Pete Hamill and Bob Costas. Stunning illustrations include both classic images and rare,unpublished photographs.Yankee Stadium, in the tradition of Lost Ballparks, eclipses the uncertainty of the future with the glories of the past in a gift book baseball fans will treasure forever.