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Which way is North?
Which way is North? This can aide in determining where the setting sun, or noonday sun, is going to affect spectators. Seven1672 (talk) 17:05, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

The house that Jeter built
Two editors appear to be in an Edit war over the insertion of the phrase... It is known as "The House That Jeter Built" after Yankee captain and short stop Derek Jeter who's success over the years undoubtedly helped to rake in a portion of the funds used for the building. This is disruption and should stop. Acps110 (talk • contribs) 18:11, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I understand why there is an Edit war over this phrase "The House that Jeter Built" as this is not yet, as far as what I can see, anywhere in common use among the fans of the Yankees and others warranting its insertion in Wikipedia. It is one thing to acknowledge in Wikipedia that which is in popular usage. However I invite you to "Google" the phrase. You will find that there is No wide movement for this designation, and as such someone putting it in an article is, in essence, campaigning for something that does not yet exist. I am a Los Angeles Dodger fan, and although it may be a complete truth that the stadium in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles is indeed "The House that O'Malley Built", it would be inappropriate to put it in Wikipedia as the fans do not know the place as such. There is a seeming rush to mimic the phrase to replace "The House that Ruth Built" in the loss of the original Yankee Stadium. There cannot ever be a replacement for that legendary historic place, and any attempt to replace the designation of Yankee Stadium (1923) with an immediate replacement of the phrase for the New Yankee Stadium is somewhat insulting to a legendary figure like Babe Ruth, the legend who was there at the beginnings of the enterprise that we now know as Major League Baseball. Babe Ruth, because of being where he was in time, helped to build up the sport to a unique central part of American culture. Derek Jeter, while a great player deserving laud and honor, is not in the same place in space and time. As far as the New Yankee Stadium, the editors should allow some time for this structure to be known for what it will be known. It is new and needs some time to cure. thurifer (talk • contribs) 09:45, 03 June 2010 (UTC)


 * If anything it should be called 'The House that George Built' or 'The House that The Boss Built' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.123.61 (talk) 02:46, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I've heard it referred to as "The House That Jeter Built" before, but enough to make it in this wiki? I dunno.  Let's see some sources. --Muboshgu (talk) 03:12, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 67.180.161.183, 18 June 2010
Another addition to the infobox as a nickname would be "The Other House That Ruth Built"; a name I have heard used before.

-- undefined19:55, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Spigot Map  20:08, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Home Run Haven
There should probably be some re-wording to this line: "Several reasons were given for the sudden dropoff in home runs, including a lower April 2010 temperature (56 degrees in comparison with 63 the previous year), slower winds, poor pitching, a change in direction in winds,"  It makes it sound like poor pitching this year is the reason for the drop off in home runs, when in fact, the pitching has been better throughout MLB. Kjscotte34 (talk) 11:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Why is poor pitching mentioned as a reason for a drop off in home runs at all? I think it means to say better pitching, right? isn't that the problem? Dancindazed (talk) 23:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Nicknames?
Why was the "nicknames" section deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yankeeguy536 (talk • contribs) 00:50, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Because they're unsourced, of dubious usage and notability, and they were cluttering the infobox. --Muboshgu (talk) 02:18, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

I deleted "Bronx Beltway" from the info box. It was sourced to the Daily News, but it was actually promoted by the Daily News, and a google search shows that it completely failed to gain any traction (3 hits from the NYDN, 2 from critics of the choice, and WP, and nothing else). Jd2718 (talk) 11:46, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Is $1.6 billion more than $2.3 billion?
I am confused. The current version of Yankee Stadium says that
 * [Yankee Stadium's] price tag of $2.3 billion . . was the third most expensive stadium after Wembley Stadium in London and New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

but the current version of New Meadowlands Stadium says that


 * At a construction cost of approximately $1.6 billion, [New Meadowlands Stadium] is the most expensive sports stadium ever built.

Am I the only one who finds these to be contradictory? I have no idea what is correct, but I hope someone will clarify and, if necessary, get the facts straight in the articles. HuskyHuskie (talk) 05:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, after two weeks of no response, I guess there's no one in the tri-state region smart enough to figure this out. Okay, I'm going to make some changes, but I want to explain my reasoning, since someone is bound to see their pet edit changed and will be upset.


 * First of all, neither claim's citations come from widely-recognized sources. The claim for the Yankee Stadium comes from fieldofschemes.com, apparently a blog devoted to the cost of stadia to the public.  The Meadowlands Stadium claim comes from mostexpensivefacts.com.  The former links to a PDF with intricate details on the cost of Yankee Stadium, whereas the latter is colorful website with photos, but is written, I must say, rather amateurishly.  For example MEF.com states: In [sic] May 25, 2010, the stadium hosted Super Bowl XLVIII and it was the 1st super Bowl match that was played in New York Metropolitan jurisdiction.  Well, we all know what they were trying to write, nonetheless, it does, I think, cast them in a poor light that they couldn't correctly provide the actual facts regarding the future Super Bowl to be played at the Meadowlands.  The FOS.com website actually makes no claims as to how Yankee Stadium fits in to the rankings, and it appears whoever wrote the YS was the 3rd most expensive was merely using the public costs part of the $2.3B figure, which, if it was the total, would make YS #3 behind NMS and Wembley.


 * So while the MEF.com site says that NMS is the most expensive, for all I know, they got their facts from Wikipedia. It just doesn't seem particularly trustworthy.  It certainly does not dispute that YS cost $2.3b.  So I'm going to change both articles to reflect that Yankee Stadium is the most expensive, followed by NMS, then Wembley. HuskyHuskie (talk) 01:30, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks to User:Kjscotte34, some clarity has been achieved. See his comments at Talk:New Meadowlands Stadium.  I'm glad someone could finally come in and properly fix the nonsense that was in this article when I first came across it two weeks ago. HuskyHuskie (talk) 02:06, 21 August 2011 (UTC)


 * It may be fixed here but it's still not consistent. A few minutes ago I removed the lede's link to List_of_most_expensive_stadiums which bizarrely ranks YS #1 while showing its "total construction cost" tied with Wembley in third place. The FOS site does offer a .pdf with detailed accounting -- I don't think the guy made it up, but it's possible it was inserted as a reference in the lede during the 8 years between Husky's comment and the one I am writing now. I started a Talk section for the Most Expensive list urging clarification there.Martindo (talk) 07:49, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

"See also" section . . . why?
This article, like many, has a section that says "See also". In this article this section lists other major stadia in the NYC area. Why? What is the purpose of this? There's nothing like this at Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, or Soldier Field. I was going to delete the whole section as I do not see the purpose, but I decided that I wouldn't flip off a New Yorker walking down the street, so I probably shouldn't do it here, either. Still, I'd like an explanation. HuskyHuskie (talk) 02:01, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see what purpose it serves, since the various venues should already be accessible via the categories. My guess is that whoever posted it was making a point about all the new arenas New York has been getting, but that seems like overkill. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 07:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

interesting aspect on the infield
Does anyone know why outside of the third base and first base infield has the infield dirt jet out in a triangle shape? And if so, would it be notable enough for the article? I've never noticed an infield like that before and I couldn't find it anywhere. Is it meant to give a baserunner some dirt traction when rounding the base or what? Dancindazed (talk) 18:08, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

"Amenities and facilities" section has incorrect unit conversions
Some of the unit conversions in the "Amenities and facilities" section are converting square feet to square meters using the feet-to-meters conversion factor. This factor needs to be squared. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.175.225.22 (talk) 23:01, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * There are two templates used, and for simplicity's sake, here are both of them, converting 3.28 feet and 10.76 square feet to meters and square meters respectively: 3.28 ft and 10.76 sqft Those look correct to me. Can you point out which items are incorrect in the article? Or better yet, correct them yourself? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:15, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Cathedral of Baseball Nickname
Announcers and fans both refer to the new Yankee Stadium as the "cathedral of baseball", why isn't it included with the nicknames for the stadium? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.41.185 (talk) 03:39, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you provide a reference?Boardg (talk) 04:26, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Who owns yankee stadium
Hello, Is there a source that says that the Yankees own Yankee Stadium because I'm pretty sure that the City of New York owns it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.18.219.42 (talk) 02:30, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * There seems to an edit war about this recently. This is a link I found that said the owner is the Yankees but it's old and may not be reliable. http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/american/nyybpk.htm Does anyone know any information? Boardg (talk) 01:16, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

"New Yankee Stadium" and "The Stadium"
I'm removing the reference to "New Yankee Stadium" as a nickname, as that's not what the linked source says. "New" is only capitalized in the headline, not in any of the references within the story, indicating that it's a mere adjective and not a part of the actual name. I'm also adding "the Stadium", as there are multiple sources indicating that the capitalized version is in fact used as a nickname for the new building, as it was for the old. SixFourThree (talk) 17:26, 29 August 2017 (UTC)SixFourThree

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Error in page
The first paragraph says it is the 2nd largest stadium in MLB but the "List of U.S. baseball stadiums by capacity" says it's the 6th. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamslabs (talk • contribs) 03:02, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

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