title: Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
author: Al Santasiere
description: <b>Mark Vancil</b> is president of Rare Air Media, a publishing and communications company based in Winnetka, Illinois, that has produced dozens of award-winning books and custom publishing programs for sports, publishing and entertainment clients.
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  Contents
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Dedication_
  
   _Maps_
  
    
  
  Begin Reading
  
    
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _Charlie Huston’s Critically Acclaimed…_
  
   _Also by Charlie Huston_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _To New York City,_  
   _with thanks for everything._
  
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   **R** **IPE FOR THE TAKING.**
  
  That’s all I can think as I watch them.
  
  The crowd pouring out of the Stadium, tens of thousands cramming out onto
  River and the Concourse, flooding the street under the 4-train tracks as the
  trains screech in and out overhead, more people packing the cars sardine
  tight, tripping up the steps, cascading down into the tunnels, mashing into
  Stan the Man’s, northbound traffic making for the Cross Bronx Expressway and
  the Triborough stalled out from all the people wandering the street. Drunk and
  half drunk, ecstatic from a win or enraged from a