Yankee Stadium: 75 Years of Drama, Glamor, and Glory [Hardcover]

Ray and Christopher Jennison Robinson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: NY: Penguin Studio (1998); 1St Edition edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0067087035
• ISBN-13: 978-0067087039
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,315,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every True Yankee Fan's Second Home, August 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Yankee Stadium (Hardcover)

This book is an absolute must for every Yankee fan. It leaves no doubt that Yankee Stadium is the single most prestigious piece of real estate in the history of American sports. To tell the history of the Yankees and Yankee Stadium is to essentially tell the history of baseball itself.

More importantly, book appropriately emphasizes the non-baseball events that took place there, thus adding to the vast and diverse amount of memories that burn forever in the minds of those who have walked through its gates.

The only blemish within the book are the panoramic pictures of the remodeled Stadium on pages 130-133. They are inverted. Otherwise, the rest of the pictures and drawings are spectacular.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Picture Book But Short On Content, September 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Yankee Stadium (Hardcover)

Good pictures but not too much about the players, no stats, and not many pictures of surrounding areas. Not a great deal about Mickey Mantle, DiMaggio, etc

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ruth built it, Robinson wrote an entertaining book about it, September 15, 2004

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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yankee Stadium (Hardcover)

Ray Robinson's, "Yankee Stadium: 75 Years of Drama, Glamor, and Glory" is a great primer into one of the most historic holy lands of sports. While it's undoubtedly famous for the team whose namesake it adorns, Yankee Stadium was also home to the New York (football) Giants for years, and it was the site for countless boxing matches and non-sporting events. But, of course, it's all about the Yankees and, exactly as Mr. Robinson puts it in his subtitle, the Drama, Glamor, and Glory.

While not a comprehensive, exhaustive research style book, there is ample information and anecdotes to go along with the countless photographs, some of which are familiar and others which are quite unique. I hope that one day, when Mr. Robinson gets around to it, a newer edition will add one more important event that occurred at the Stadium: the resumption of the World Series in 2001, just weeks after the devestation of 9/11/2001.