Full coverage: Yankee Stadium opens

Nine-run seventh by Indians ruins Stadium opener

The fans poured into the new Yankee Stadium hours early yesterday, eager to witness the historic first regular-season game at the new ballpark.

Ken Davidoff: Yankees will face big payback for home losses

The Yankees will make the playoffs this season. They're going to post a 96-66 record, win the wild card and fall to their old friends the Angels in the Division Series.

Wallace Matthews: Steinbrenner created a monster -- and a ballpark

The new Yankee Stadium is spectacular, jaw-dropping, a monument to nearly nine decades of the most consistent success enjoyed by any team in the history of professional sports.

A-Rod hits three batting-practice homers in Tampa

New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez took another step in his rehab from right hip surgery, hitting three home runs in 49 swings during his first full batting practice session.

Yankees relievers Veras, Marte give up nine runs

Jose Veras wasn't too pleased about his costly implosion, the one that began the Yankees' nine-run meltdown in the seventh inning Thursday.

Neil Best: New Yankee Stadium not TV friendly

New Yankee Stadium has been praised widely for its beauty, majesty and sight lines - except, of course, for those infamous $5 bleacher seats with the sports bar in the way.

Nady has more exams in hopes of avoiding surgery

Xavier Nady jogged out of the Yankees' dugout when his name was called during pregame ceremonies Thursday and took his place among his teammates along the first-base line.

Randolph impressed with new Yankee Stadium

Former Yankees second baseman and coach Willie Randolph attended the opening of the new Yankee Stadium yesterday as part of the pregame ceremonies honoring past Yankees players.

CC is so-so in first start at new Stadium

The Yankees sent their new $161-million ace to the hill for the grand opening of their $1.3-billion playhouse Thursday, kicking it off, ironically, with a game against his former team.

Tight security surrounds Steinbrenner at Stadium

George Steinbrenner attended the regular-season opener at the new Yankee Stadium Thursday in a symbolic gesture of his 37-season association with the Yankees' organization. His return, however, turned into a somewhat bizarre event, as Steinbrenner was flanked by a large security detail that adamantly prohibited his interaction with anyone.

Ken Davidoff: Big show, no results for Yankees

Well, look on the bright side, Yankees fans:

Grand ceremonies usher in new stadium

It began where perhaps it should have climaxed – with a wave on the giant video board from George M. Steinbrenner III himself, in attendance for the official opening of his team's new, $1.5 billion playground.

Fans flock to Stadium opener

The "oohs" and "ahhs" began as the No. 4 train exited a Bronx subway tunnel Thursday morning.

Jim Baumbach: New Yankee Stadium means new beginning

As the Yankees officially move across the street today into their brand-spanking new home for the rich and famous, the best thing fans can do is forget about the Yankee Stadium ghosts. Let them retire peacefully over at the old stadium, never to be bothered again. Trust me, it's for the best.

Yankees proud of Stadium's accessibility features

Calling Yankee Stadium "the most accessible stadium that's ever been built,'' Yankees president Randy Levine hosted a news conference Tuesday to tout the new building's amenities for fans who use wheelchairs or have other disabilities, such as loss of hearing or sight.

Neil Best: Stadium excellent, but not for the light of wallet

The iconic photo of Opening Day at the first Yankee Stadium shows Model Ts stuck in traffic, bunting over the entrance and people shuffling in, surely imagining what wonders they soon would see inside.

Ken Davidoff: New Stadium: It's Yankee arrogance on grand scale

It is a palace, and also a prison.

Hal Steinbrenner: New Stadium classy, not flashy

Amid all the positive publicity the new Yankee Stadium elicited Thursday, managing general partner and co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner addressed the meatier and murkier issues concerning the organization.

First visitors to Yankee Stadium are left in awe

The first thing Tim Kennedy did as he entered the new Yankee Stadium for the first time was take a picture of his son William, 7, one of the first fans to walk through the gates of the new ballpark yesterday.

Bernie's a guitar hero at stadium Hard Rock opening

Bernie Williams received a rock star's reception even at an event in which he was surrounded by rock stars.

Players begin process of getting used to Stadium

Standing on the grass a few feet in front of the home dugout, Derek Jeter began prepping his bat before heading for home plate.

Yankee Stadium camera views not the best

With the new Yankee Stadium set to host its first game Friday, TV executives and cameramen still are concerned about some of the angles and positions there.

New Yankee Stadium filled with history, grandeur

If the Yankees are baseball royalty, then the new Yankee Stadium could be considered a palace.

Neil Best: No cheap seats left at new Yankee Stadium

So far 2009 has been the Year of Plenty of Good Seats Available, with high-priced tickets across North America that once would have been snapped up eagerly instead going unsold and unloved.

A Bronx bombshell: New Yankee Stadium has it all

Not every construction site has a limestone and granite fixture so grand that it looks as if it were built 85 years ago, which is the whole point. It says something about the spirit of the new ballpark going up in the Bronx that the brilliant gold letters literally are carved in stone: "YANKEE STADIUM."

Are Yankees courting their own curse?

The house that Babe Ruth built by hitting balls out of the park now has a date with the wrecking ball, and demolition plans have set off a backlash that has little to do with the loss of parkland or increased traffic, and everything to do with nostalgia.

No landmark status for Yankee Stadium

Despite the decades of history attached to Yankee Stadium, including the distinction of being the first ballpark to be called a "stadium," rather than a "field" or "park," the structure has never been designated a historic landmark.

What happened when at Yankee Stadium

Feb. 6, 1921

Yankees polish a new diamond

The Yankees unveiled their much-anticipated plans for a new stadium yesterday -- a spectacular arena that strives to recapture the ambience of the original historic ballpark, but that also features the kind of amenities that can support the high cost of baseball today.

Ken Davidoff: Yanks do right thing and fans win

Forget about the fact that we knew this new Yankees stadium was coming for a year. That the long-overdue news conference began 15 minutes late yesterday, despite being on live television. That they gave every politician in the state five minutes on the podium.

Jeter: 'It will be the same atmosphere'

History is not limited to landmarks. So say the few Yankees who may still be in pinstripes when the team's new home is slated to open in 2009.

Stadium neighbors have mixed reactions

Many neighbors of Yankee Stadium never believed George Steinbrenner when he threatened, at various times in the past 11 years, to move his team away from the Bronx.

Fans speak out on new Stadium

"After all the news about the West Side stadium and the Queens stadium, I just want to know where all the money is coming from. I go to 10 games a year. It's one of the oldest stadiums, up there with Wrigley and Fenway, and it's due for an upgrade." (Erik Gulley, 34, of Elizabeth, N.J.)

Justin Davidson: Not exactly a home run

If the pope announced plans for a new St. Peter's, or if President George W. Bush relocated the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac, the tremors among believers could hardly be more powerful. The Yankees' announcement yesterday that they plan to abandon their home of 82 years for a younger version suggests that sacredness has become disposable.

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