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- It's been five years since legendary Yankee Stadium was demolished after serving as home to the New York Yankees for 85 years. National Geographic was there throughout the demolition process. This clip includes a condensed version of the piece-by-piece destruction. Authorities could not "blow up" the stadium because of its close proximity to residences and active rail lines. The full demolition took over a year.
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It is a sin that they tore down those walls. That stadium should have been converted into a museum
Tyler Justus Paige yea like the Astrodome
That stadium should have been a National monument to recognize baseball history! I agree, it should have never been torn down, would have brought revenue and tourist to the city as a museum! Our dad's took us there and we took our children their, a lot of memories!
Tyler Justus Paige yeah :((
Tyler Justus Paige it got converted into a little league park with like 5 little league baseball fields
should had never build a new one
It's like tearing down Notre Dame. The old Yankee Stadium was a cathedral to the great American pastime.
It was like tearing down the St. Peter's Basilica of baseball. Even as a Cardinals fan, I still admit this (granted, Roger Hornsby tagged out Babe Ruth to win our first World Series there).
It was criminal. A crime against baseball, itself.
At least we still have Wrigley and Fenway
Oh baloney! The old park was renovated and made into a charmless version of its original self. No huge loss, considering the hallowed grounds remain as well-kept recreational fields for local Bronx residents.
@@chasbodaniels1744 I remember hearing that the mid 70’s renovation did more harm than good as well.
Now I wasn’t born until 1995, but I do remember being at the old stadium a couple of times and it did feel very dated and crammed.
@@RB01.10 Fond memories of the original stadium during the early to mid 1960’s. In the concourses and concession areas it looked old but that was part of the “magical aura”! Maris, Mantle, Tresh, Pepitone, Yogi, Richardson, Kubek - those were the heroes - even if one of the family had to sit with a steel support beam in front of them occasionally.
The renovation brought the facility into the 1970’s, which was an embarrassingly cheesy decade for architecture (also clothing and hairstyles). The great teams of 76-80 made the experience electric, so the stadium didn’t matter much.
When the current facility opened across the street in 2009, I was awed AND disappointed! It looks like a freaking cathedral as you approach on foot from the south, but so many interior features (Monument Park, the concession areas etc.) seemed laughably badly thought out.
It took another two years for them to rectify, and the House That Jeter Built is a great (but obscenely expensive) game day experience now.
That stadium has so much history and so many memories; it's weird that it's just... gone.
it just moved across the street fam
You do know they rebuilt it right?
@@Lee247Jamaica Yankees so good the fans come up with all kinds of bs to complain
Edit: just cuz Fenway wasn't relocated while Yankees stadium was, but Yankees stadium is much better
Tragic and sad, how did they let this happen. Should have been preserved....
The original plan was to leave the outside walls standing, but that didn't happen either...
Corporate greed
They should have done the same thing to the Old Comiskey Park.
and who was going to pay for the upkeep npot very realistic are you
and who was going to pay for the upkeep npot very realistic are you
I know a lot of Yankee fans and there isn't a single one who prefers the new stadium to this place.
Now you know one more
Good bye~ original Yankee stadium...
Actually, putting emotion aside, the new stadium is much better.
@@mmcgahn5948 In what ways?
@@kingcassius2586 there aren’t any obstructed seats
A lot of memories were erased that day .
As a lifelong Red Sox fan, you'd think I'd want to be watching this on loop for hours, but I really think it was a shame to eliminate such a place of history. Seeing the apartments in the background where the Polo Grounds used to stand made it even worse.
As a lifelong diehard yankee fan if they ever tore down Fenway I'd be rioting in the streets with you guys
Yup. I still run into people sometimes who remember watching games from the polo grounds projects and the roofs of the projects.
Video: Experience the demolition of the legendary Yankee Stadium in this piece-by-piece time lapse.
como me hubiera gustado en tener esas dos entradas....
para regalarselos a mis padres. y los disfruten.
amazing ngc
Has another Stadium been put up in its place?
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Its was a good old stadium.
How are you gonna tear down the most historic stadium in baseball and turn it into baseball fields
boiledegg boi here's the answer you're looking for: $$$$
I mean, at least on the bright side, they kept it as a baseball field, just not... Not *THE* baseball field.
There are some venues that shouldn't be torn down.
not a yankees fan but dam this makes me sad
Especially since the new ballpark is a soulless corporate playground
As a baseball fan and American, we simply can't allow them to do this to Wrigley or Fenway.
@@BDLforever24 And Dodgers stadium.
I've been an Atlanta Brave fan since the club moved here from Milwaukee.....however I realize the history of Yankee stadium, and yes the stadium should still be standing to this very day, 03/17/2021...the New York Yankees are the best organization in Major League Baseball ⚾️...thank you, BCM'
@@josecarranza7555 Dodger Stadium was recently renovated so hopefully that means they’re sticking with it for a long time
Demolishing the Old Yankee Stadium was a very bad decision
they had to it was falling apart
@@SuperPhilly5 If Fenway and Wrigley could last this long AND still be played on, then Old Yankee Stadium could've too...
@@Kill_la_Kill_Me_Pls fenway is a garbage dump so is Wrigley
@@SuperPhilly5 guarantee you've never been to either of them
@@Kill_la_Kill_Me_Pls agreed fenway while not the most comfortable is so beautiful and clean and the aura
That was the saddest time lapse I’ve ever watched
100% agree I cry every time I watch this
As far as I'm concerned it was Sacred Ground, Should've remodeled it
Visited one time in my life. 2008 which was the last season the Yankees played there. So much history there.
wow New Yorkers sure can move quick tearing down things..a lifetime of baseball memories and it took only 30 seconds to tear down
no... a year, it's called a time lapse
superj33445 I think he knows that lmao
Thanks Mac no they replaced. it with bigger and better one buts its still called yankee stadium
Can't yall get a joke?
You sir are a legend.
The video was 24 seconds longer than i expected.
Jimmy Wilson Sounds like you got a bargain.
Rakshasa so it would seem
I can’t believe the field is still there. Even though I’m a Mets fan, I really wish I could have seen a game there
Why did they demolished it since its a historical stadium
Frxtion Head
Ikr it's a shame at least it was turned into a park
You aren't allowed implode in NYC. Haven't been in over 35 years. Dust is NOT a problem in a modern demolition, as implosions tend to pull the dust inward. Also Yankee Stadium was more limestone than concrete making dismantling a more profitable venture.
There was already a park across the street where they built the new one. Only this park is smaller. It's a real shame that the politicians suck up to the yankees. The new yankee stadium is worse, the seats are more expensive and further from the field, thanks to the luxury suites that they shoved in between the lower and upper deck. The Yankees were already the richest team in baseball, this new stadium will make them even richer.
F*** the people who had it demolished. I see things like this and just shake my head. That place was full of history. Make it a museum or something. It's basically a national monument. You don't destroy something like that.
I cried when they tore down Ebbits Filed.
FENWAY PARK WILL NEVER COME DOWN!
everything comes to an end...150 years from Now there won't be a person alive who will remember Fenway
Says the Jealous and Butt Hurt Yankees Fan!
S.F Giant fan actually..i'm from there you silly dork
You're from Boston, A Giants Fan, and you're saying that Fenway will be coming down? Oh I forgot, you're not A Red Sox Fan. A true fan would never believe that Fenway Park will ever come down , and would never allow that to happen just to stick it those Yankee Assholes talking shit about us and Our Ballpark. They'll always be Butt Hurt until Fenway ever did come down. But until then, FUCK THEM!
Yes, you're right, eventually Fenway Park will come down. The Day that will happen is when Major League Baseball has come to an end!
I used to go to yankees games all the time my family had season tickets me and my sisters would always go our seats were out in left field front row I can't tell you how sad it is that this stadium is gone
Way to destroy a lifetime of tradition, NEVER been the same since.
It wasn’t the same place before the mid 70’s renovation
It was obsolete, you can only renovate it so many times
The new one is fantastic, much more open than the older one was
Absolutely horrible. Big money wins again. A piece of history that can never be replaced is gone forever. Sickening.
It was very outdated and crammed, and you can only renovate so many times before it ends up costing more than replacing.
They were planning a new one since the 80’s.
The tall buildings across the River was the old polo grounds where the NY Giants (baseball and football) played.
Legends that we will never see again stood in those two boxes and it’s like it never happened now
This time lapse really shows the difference between the old Jewel box ballparks and the new mega parks.
Once they took the seating decks off, you could see how old Yankee stadium was essentially a narrow, long, curved building which supported all of the seating decks. (Plus the outfield seats, set up much the same on a smaller scale.
Parks built today have grand pavilions, massive amounts of space, lots of luxury boxes and overall are just WAY bigger even though capacity has not grown proportionately.
They should keep it the same way ,well at least as a museum
The Yankees and Baseball hasn't been the same since they knocked down the old Yankee Stadium.
that because oif current management has nothing to do with the new stadium
Um, they did win in 2009, their inaugural season there
i thought they were going to bomb the hell outta it.. boring ..
Invisible Last time they imploded something it became a holiday
Jacob Long chill
Jacob Long bruh
Jacob Long r u referencing 9/11 smartass?? Cuz 9/11 is not a national holiday
they cant because it would look exactly like the world trade centers
Just makes fenway Park and cubs stadium that much more special
fenway is a dump
The footprint of the original field is intact and contains youth baseball diamonds. It’s surrounded by normal chain link fencing, and I reminisce each time I walk past it to the new stadium right across 161st Street.
At least they preserved the field.
Rip to the Cathedral of all baseball
First we lose the towers and then Yankee Stadium.... New York has never been the same and neither have the Yankees...
Stupid comparison.
A lot of people died from the towers and this is a sports venue no one died.
@@josecarranza7555 of course the lives of thousands matters way more, but Yankee Stadium did have more historical significance.
I think it is a curse to tear down stadiums, landmarks, and parks with such significant history..
Sad to see all that history fall away...
I never want to see this happen to our stadiums in L.A.
Well, at least, the LA Memorial Coliseum is being remodeled and maintained.
The new one has a museum, and Heritage Field marks the site of the old stadium
What'd they chop up and sell to sports memorabilia collectors? The turf, the seats, both?
I think some of it was sold to collectors. But is it was all old, it wouldn't be "rare" sports memorabilia.
Levi Williams It's stuff that would have been discarded but cut up and put in a frame with a certificate of authenticity, it's worth anywhere from $20 to $300 each. Harmless enough but kind of a funny kewl way to make a lot of money.
Yeah this so called memorabilia guy tried to pass off groups of the plastic seats from the remodeling as original seats. He was asking $1,500 for a group of four seats. I have an original seat that were ripped out after the 1973 season and sold for $5 each. It consists of wooden slats bolted onto cast iron frame. It weights quite bit. He also tried to pawn off on Yankee fans, by selling dirt from the infield in little plastic cubes. I thought this guy has to be kidding. The Yes network was advertising for this guy for a few years. But bottom line, how do you destroy a sports cathedral like Old Yankee Stadium. Today’s ballpark isn’t Yankee Stadium, it’s George Steinbrenner Stadium. Anyway to this Yankee fan it is.
this makes me sad. they should have landmarked the old stadium
Some serious timelapse! Thanks for that
Sad
For all those asking "why?".........the money needs to be followed.
Red Sox fan here. Tearing down Yankee Stadium is like tearing down Fenway Park. It’s incomprehensible. They call the new stadium Yankee Stadium but it’s a fraud. The atmosphere is completely different. It’s not historic. It’s just another stadium. Some things are worth preserving but unfortunately in this case.. money won.
The old one was falling apart, and incredibly outdated not to mention crammed
This is so sad to watch
What a sad day! And site now!!!
It's pretty sad to watch when they destroy a stadium or arena with lots of history to it
Literally most of my sport memory destroyed.
Wrigley will stand for another hundred years!!
And they will lose for a hundred years
Old Yankee Stadium went the way of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds.
At least the Old Yankee Stadium site still have some elements of baseball to it. It's a lot better than what they did on the site of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds.
Those brown housing projects across the river in Manhattan is where the Polo Grounds were.
What they replaced it with....a disgrace
To the people who say that the old stadium should have been preserved, the land for the old stadium has been used to build one of the best parks in the Bronx. I take my daughter to that park all the time.
Wow and Ruth’s house was still good it had history
I’m from Houston. Even though we have Minute Maid Park, our city just can’t let go of the Astrodome. It’s strange to think about: the Astrodome has so many milestones, but they’re only appreciated here (and I guess New Orleans, “thanks” to Katrina). Yankee Stadium was different. It was a castle on a hill, a stadium revered throughout the world. Which makes its destruction all the more shocking. I’m lucky enough to have gone to a game in 2007, and go inside the Astrodome in 2006. But this is a piece of history that didn’t need to be taken out. I just hope I can go to Wrigley and Fenway before it’s too late.
I was too young to remember when the Oilers left, but I like many felt Adams screwed the team.
Polo grounds: “First time?”
Still sickens me away this was allowed to happen. Lost a lot of respect for NY and the Yankees. And while they won the first World Series year in 2009 in the new stadium, one could say they have been cursed since.
They had to tear it down one day. You can only renovate so many times. My first time was in '67 as a 10 year-old, and it was an old stadium then. The new stadium looks like a helluva place, except for that monstrosity looking centerfield thingy and the fact that some seats are over-priced and empty looking.
Interesting, that was before the mid 70’s renovation.
But I did hear they were planning a new one since the 80’s.
Sickening
This would be the equivalent to the Romans tearing down the Colosseum
Wow. That place just despawned.
What a crime.
Farewell beautiful stadium,.. Fenway reigns the True King !
Fenway will never see as many championships...Fenway is next...
Watch the Yankees end up winning more World Series than the Red Sox in the new stadium...
fenway looks like a garbage dumpster inside ugly and green
this broke my heart.
This made me laugh
With Yankee Stadium. Diffrent story. No Blowups. However. They took the park apart.
Woulda been cool to see...the ad for another one of your videos blocked half of it
Kinda spooky ngl
I was 7 when this happened. Wish I had a chance to visit before it was taken down
Sweg Lord I feel bad for u
Tbh, it really hurts me to see the Old Yankee Stadium gone by demolition. We could've at least protest to stop the demolition on Old Yankee Stadium.... But they absolutely demolished it and it's gone. If i would've become a Yankees fan as a little kid and would've known about the Old Yankee Stadium, i could've been there but it's too late. The only thing i could imagine was going to the park were the Old Yankee Stadium was before and sits there pretending that I'm at the Old Yankee Stadium cheering for Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Derek Jeter, and others :(
It collapsed like the 2004 Yankees.
DowntownCanon oooof
Oh snap
its really sad to watch this again, considering my first time going to yankees stadium was the new one in 2009 when i was 5 years old. almost everyday i sit and think about how i never got to experience the history and dimensions of the old park. the bright blue outfield wall was so iconic. now they have a dark blue one that looks black. the arches are behind homeplate and not behind outfield. its really a shame.
i used to walk to the store everyday and watch them take it down on the way
the should've build the new Yankee stadium on the same place, so they kept playing on the same field as all those legends from the past.
IchimonjiBlade the new stadium was already being constructed and was pretty much finished by the time it was demolished, the mets would have to host the yanks in citi field until the new stadium was complete, so there was a reason why they didn't, same reason mets had when tearing down shea.
Well, obviously different steps were needed for that to happen, but it was only a thought.
It's crazy how much George Steinbrenner hated this place. He was always salivating over the stadium in Kansas City back in the 70s and 80s.
I did hear as early as the 70’s he wanted a new stadium but was fine with renovating it in the mid 70’s.
But he wasn’t going to do it again by the mid 2000’s
This is sad because 17 days after I was born I went to my very first yankee game I thought it was amazing good times really upset that they tore down the place that started my love for the Yankees I shed a tear remembering the first game that I went to here who'll watching it be destroyed.😔😭😩😢
That was my first game at the old yankee stadium but they tore it down but another day I went to the new yanks stadium and saw the empty huge space of land were the old stadium used to stand
RazorBladeJay RBJ Damn wth 17 day old baby going to a Yankees game and I'm 10 and I never been to a sports game
I'm a Cardinals fan, but even I know that you don't tear down a piece of history that is "the Cathedral of Baseball" just like that 😡
I stand with Yankee fans in agreement that it's an absolute tragedy that it demolished to make way for the new one!
The old one was falling apart, and was beyond obsolete.
It was also very cramped, and the mid 70’s renovation many felt ruined it
Oh I understand that. I just wish they turned it into a museum or something IDK
Concrete patented for strength by one Thomas Edison . Frank Sinatra says it all. "There Used To Be A Ballpark, right here."
I am a National League fan. I am also a lay Historian.
Even I, have a painted Wall poster of old Yankee Stadium in my study room.
"You don't miss your water, till your well runs dry". Too bad LIFE doesn't hand out Mulligans. The Yankee Organization sure wishes it could use one in this instance. *SIGH*
See Yankee Stadium Vanish in 30 Seconds
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I went to a Pink Floyd Concert there and I was on the field so I started filling up my pants with Yankee Stadium Dirt & Grass then put it in a McDonald's Yankee Glass!
I still have it...
I went to that pink Floyd show too!!
Tom Raab It was so awesome !
That's awesome !
The new stadium has no soul
Stadium has a soul? Since when? Can it talk to you too?
The person is talking about how the new stadium has no history
mrearlygold give it 50 years
El Pingu exactly. Soul comes with age
The top deck in the NewYS is the problem .
Great stadiums have huge upper grand stands like this old one did.
That's greed for you. money will always be ahead over history. by the way the new yankee stadium garbage.
Travesties like this seem to happen in New York too frequently. Old Penn Station, the Polo Grounds, and this.
This is sad
Cannot believe they tore that stadium down.
To be fair most of the original Stadium was torn down in the mid-70s. In fact they were hoping to save the one "original" part of Yankee Stadium (I forget which) but obviously were not successful.
At least the new Stadium looks more like the original.
What became of the grounds of where the stadium use to be
Sad to watch, the great missed opportunity was to have not saved the left field entrance area which was the only original entrance remaining built in the expansion of the 1930s. Had fancy American and Yankee logos designed in on the top. An effort was made to save but too late. At least the legacy area was made into playing fields.
What a shame. Sooooo much history in that stadium gone!
Should have at least kept like a wall or something
they tried to save gate 2, but to no avail
Insane. Perhaps the greatest mistake in the history of American Sports. Absolute disgrace.
It was time for it to go, it was crammed, outdated, and starting to fall down (there was an incident in 1998 when a piece of concrete fell into the stands).
The new stadium is a sorry site. Big mistake. All the ball players agree.
A demolished Yankee stadium resembles the rest of the Bronx.
ziggy morris I'm from bx don't disrespect
Hahahaha! What do you expect from AOC's District LOL
@@hmdagoat8742 the Bronx disrespects itself everyday
Why did I watch this? I loved the real Yankee Stadium 😟
I'm a Mets fan, and I still find it hard to watch.
2004 ALCS Game 7
Red Sox 10-3 Yankees
What a shame!! Tuff to loose an icon!! It would be like tearing down Lambeau field,like getting kicked in the balls!!
The new stadium is a concrete memorial to George Steinbrenner, totally lacks any character and overpriced.
It was a very sad day
As someone who went to old Yankee Stadium and the new one, I’ll take the new one over the old outdated crumbling dump that old Yankee stadium was.
you can see my house in the background!
COol!
ItzYoBoiErnie ay I live on the Concourse
Thanfully atleast we still have Wrigley and Fenway. But what a SHAME!!!
Billy joel played there.... it should of been preserved.
Why they have to tear down one of the landmarks in the Bronx 😢
I saw a lot of 7 trains