The NEW YORK POST’s Joel Sherman wrote that Yankee Stadium is a monument to greed. He may have been too kind.
Photographs and column are here.
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Did you know that the largest attendance to see a Major League team
was not at a venue in the United States?
On October 18, 1936 Nuremberg Stadium recorded an attendance of 322,463 to watch the St. Louis Browns take on the Cologne Atomizers of the Hanseatic League. Baseball Commissioner Keenesaw Mountain Landis disputed the final figure because it was bat day and because Hitler Youth Crossing Guards got in free.
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Images: (Nuremberg) leninimports.com; (team) mysite.verizon,net via bayridgebrooklyn.blogspot.com; From, Fox Sports via nypost.com (Yankee Stadium across street) Ezra Shaw - Getty Images (Yankee Stadium close) Seth Wenig - Getty Images; (Mussolini 2) thevillapassalacqua.com;(sepia Mussolini) losalamoshistory.org;
(Yamkee stadium clubhouse) Seth Wenig - Associated Press (Yankee Stadium Hall of Heroes) Seth Wenig - Associated Press; (Roman Memorial) image48.webshots.com via travel.webshots.com; (Hitler & Generals) now cf; (red SPQR) via badattitudes.com (bombed Nuremberg) c-Margaret Bourke-White via mythinglinks.org; (Yankee logo) via sportslogos.net; (IKEA logo) via iwasnormalonce.wordpress.com; (Rally Photo) via leninimports.com; (GIs) warfoto.com; (Nuremberg stadium ST) via theage.com.au; (sky) freefoto.com; (bars) commentarymagazine.com via farm4.static.flickr.com; (SPQR) goldieraider.blogspot.com via rome-roma.net; Mussolini akimbo) student.britannica.co; (South Bronx) South Bronx, 1975, from Mel Rosenthal’s exhibit