The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York

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Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil Sullivan’s The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles all the history of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium with a view to see its final Yankees game in 2008.
As Yankee Stadium is about to change into a memory, an indelible a part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, Neil Sullivan’s The Diamond in the Bronx offers an enchanting account of its history and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society, Sullivan tells how Yankee Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was once a burgeoning borough that held middle class housing for immigrants in addition to hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when a number of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the stadium is now surrounded by of parking lots, symbolic of the team’s suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In latest years the team has threatened to leave New York City, prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a billion dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the public’s changing views of government and the changing nature of professional sports.
For Yankee fans, baseball aficionados, and anyone interested in the an increasing number of vexed relationship between sports, business, and politics, The Diamond in the Bronx offers a wealth of detail, insight, and historical perspective.

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