For being such an historic ballpark, Yankee Stadium was disappointing to me.  First off, the neighborhood surrounding the stadium was not someplace you’d want to be unless you had to be!  We parked in some dirty garage, which had several cars that looked like they hadn’t been moved in decades.  I later found out that one of these jalopies actually exploded later that evening while in the garage!  Glad that I wasn’t there.

The outside of the stadium is quite impressive and the huge baseball bat in front was a sight to see.  I think we picked up our tickets at Will Call, but I’m not totally sure.

Our seats were way up there in the upper deck, which was severely sloped .  We were on the first base side.  I was pretty sure that I may have been one of the very few O’s fans there. I was advised not to wear anything identifying me as such so as not to anger any obnoxious people.  Mind you, this instruction came from a Met fan.

Though we were very high up, the view of the field was excellent.  I’m pretty sure that Bob Sheppard was announcing that day, as I remember being told to pay attention to the PA announcer.

The inside of the stadium is ugly, dark and narrow.  After we got in the stadium, it seemed like we walked forever to get to our seats.  And unlike many parks, where you have a view of the field while walking around and can orient yourself as to where you are, I had absolutely no idea where I was until we actually got to our section.

The food options were pathetic and the vendors seemed nonexistent.  For some reason I stupidly decided that I was hungry and waited in a very long line at a small concession stand and missed an inning of the game!  An extremely poor design!  And I don’t remember what I ate.

I didn’t get there early enough to tour the ballpark, which I would have liked to do.  I also didn’t get to visit the other levels.  This pre-dated my forays into other ballparks, so I didn’t have anything that I was trying to view, other than the game.

I was pleased to have seen a game there and was obviously thrilled that it was an O’s victory that I saw.  I hope the New Yankee Stadium is vastly improved, but I don’t think I’ll be sitting in any of those high-roller seats!!!

TRIVIA:  First person who can tell me who Dayett and O”Berry are wins!