I would rather see that “impossible” ski jump at Wrigley with my won eyes!

FYI for paul…pic #8 in the gallery shows lo duca with the inverted “I” (a/k/a uniform malfunction)[/quote]

great catch, Phil!

We were talking about it and I wondered if there was any precedent for an event like this, i.e., team going back to play a game in its old stadium after playing many years in a new one, in the same city.

We discussed the Yankees going from Yankee Stadium to Shea and back in the 1970s when the former was rebuilt, but that was a very different circumstance. They moved to Shea temporarily out of necessity, the return to Yankee Stadium was permanent (well, not really, but you get my meaning) and in the interim the facility had essentially been completely rebuilt from the outside in.

The only other example I could think of, also involving the L.A. Coliseum as it turns out, but not involving the same city, was the L.A. Raiders moving back to Oakland in ’95, although that’s also not entirely analogous as, like the Yankees, the move back was essentially permanent and the old facility was extensively remodeled (in this case subsequently). Perhaps a better example would be the exhibition game they played in Oakland against the Oilers in 1989.

Can anyone think of another example of this type of event?[/quote]

Didnt the NY FOOTBALL Giants play in Shit, err Shea and the Yale Bowl while Yankee was remade and then on to Gaints Stadium?[/quote]

Yes, they did. They went from the Polo Grounds (1920s-1955) to Yankee Stadium (1956-72) to the Yale Bowl in Connecticut (1973-74) to Shea (1975) to Giants Stadium (1976-present).[/quote]

It’s a little bit of a reach but on April 15, 1998 the Yankees played one “home” game at Shea after a beam collapsed at Yankee Stadium. That means that they returned to a stadium that they called home for the 1974 & 1975 seasons.[/quote]

Rumor has it that the Cubs will be playing in US Cellular for a year or so when they finally sell the stadium to, whom ever, and start renovating.[/quote]
Chances are it won’t happen, but I’d hitchhike to Chicago to see the Bears play Wrigley again.[/quote]
The Birmingham Barons do this every year. Throwback uniforms at the throwback field.

We were talking about it and I wondered if there was any precedent for an event like this, i.e., team going back to play a game in its old stadium after playing many years in a new one, in the same city.

We discussed the Yankees going from Yankee Stadium to Shea and back in the 1970s when the former was rebuilt, but that was a very different circumstance. They moved to Shea temporarily out of necessity, the return to Yankee Stadium was permanent (well, not really, but you get my meaning) and in the interim the facility had essentially been completely rebuilt from the outside in.

The only other example I could think of, also involving the L.A. Coliseum as it turns out, but not involving the same city, was the L.A. Raiders moving back to Oakland in ’95, although that’s also not entirely analogous as, like the Yankees, the move back was essentially permanent and the old facility was extensively remodeled (in this case subsequently). Perhaps a better example would be the exhibition game they played in Oakland against the Oilers in 1989.

Can anyone think of another example of this type of event?[/quote]

Didnt the NY FOOTBALL Giants play in Shit, err Shea and the Yale Bowl while Yankee was remade and then on to Gaints Stadium?[/quote]

Yes, they did. They went from the Polo Grounds (1920s-1955) to Yankee Stadium (1956-72) to the Yale Bowl in Connecticut (1973-74) to Shea (1975) to Giants Stadium (1976-present).[/quote]

It’s a little bit of a reach but on April 15, 1998 the Yankees played one “home” game at Shea after a beam collapsed at Yankee Stadium. That means that they returned to a stadium that they called home for the 1974 & 1975 seasons.[/quote]

Yea, that’s a reach, but not bad. The hunk of steel that fell came from the original upper-level concourse, which still exists inside the upper deck and is used by stadium staff as a service/storage area.

I wonder if anyone intends to document the dismantling of Yankee Stadium photographically. I’d really like to get an “inside” look at whatever is left of the original structure.

FYI for paul…pic #8 in the gallery shows lo duca with the inverted “I” (a/k/a uniform malfunction)