"Some ball yard!"
~ Babe Ruth, 1923

"When I first came to Yankee Stadium,
I used to feel like the ghosts
of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there."
~Mickey Mantle

"Yankee Stadium is something else, a law unto itself.
It has earned the right to look any way it pleases and I would change a seat of it. . . .
It is particularly dreamworthy because not so long ago
the World Series used to turn up there as regularly as Wimbledon.
I once sneaked out to center field myself as a youth
to see how things looked from Mickey Mantle's point of view and felt the same tingle some people get from Civil War battlefields."
~ Wilfred Sheed, in Baseball and Lesser Sports

"People from out of town say ther are three things they want to see - the Statue of Liberty, Radio City, and Yankee Stadium. I guess you could say the stadium is hallowed ground."
~ Bill Waite, an employee at the stadium for over fifty years

"That Babe was some architect."
~ Chipper Jones

"When I came up to the Yanks from Newark at the end of the 1946 season, I took one look at the stadium and thought, 'Geez, whatta big place!'"
~Yogi Berra, commenting in 1996

"I grew up loving Southern League Baseball. When I was four my daddy took me to the old Rickwood Field in Birmingham. Then, coming to Yankee Stadium in 1937 for the first time-where the greats like the Babe, Lou and DiMag played-was just beyond my dreams. Suddenly here I was, a guy supposed to practice law, broadcasting Yankee home games on radio from this mecca of baseball. This was the place, the number-one place in baseball. The stadium was like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of baseball, and every time I stepped inside of it I had to pinch myself!"
~ Mel Allen, the Voice of the Yankees (1946 - 1965)