Yankee Stadium Tour Photos

As promised, here are some pictures from our Yankee Stadium tour experience yesterday.

When they do the tour on days that the Yankees are on the road, you get to park in the Player’s Lot (for free!). Here’s the view of the Stadium from the Player’s Lot:

The first stop of the tour is Monument Park. Here are the Yankees retired numbers that line the entrance walkway:

Your first sight once you’re upon the monuments:

Hey, the name of this blog is “WasWatching,” so, how could I not take a picture of Scooter’s plaque:

After Monument Park, you head towards the Yankees dugout – by following the warning track in leftfield, down along the third base line, and around the back of home plate. They take you out through the bullpen gates to get to the warning track. So, we got to feel like “Mo” for a moment. Here’s the view:

Here’s me, from the back, with my son on my left and my daughter on my right, walking along the track to the dugout. (My daughter’s friend is to her right.)

As we were coming up to the visitor’s dugout, I noticed something funny – at least to me – in the camera well next to it. See if you can see what I saw:

O.K. it’s hard to see. But, on one of the boxes inside the well was a “SNY” sticker. I just thought that was interesting to see inside Yankee Stadium. Here’s a closer look at that box – snipped from the picture above:

The Yankees dugout visit was the highlight of the tour for me. It was a dream come true for me to sit in there with my kids. Here we are:

I was suprised at how much smaller the dugout is – when you’re in it – as opposed to how it seems seeing it on T.V. (or when you’re in the stands at the Stadium). There’s really not a lot of room in there, at all.

Here’s Pete Sheehy’s Plaque from the end of the dugout:

Just next to the Yankees dugout is the grounds crew area. There are two plaques in there that you don’t really hear much about. (I wonder if they’ll be moved to the new Stadium?) Here they are:

After the Yankees dugout, since the team was on the road, we got to go into the Yankees Clubhouse. It’s more of a peek into the clubhouse than a tour inside of it. (Sorry, no pictures – they don’t allow cameras inside the clubhouse to protect the player’s privacy.) Here, like the dugout, I was suprised at how small the player’s lockers and the overall area was – as it seems bigger when you see it on T.V.

You do get to see who lockers next to who, who’s a slob, who’s not, etc. (Matusi’s locker was very neatly kept.) For sure, the players are going to enjoy the new Stadium – as I have to imagine that the clubhouse there will be bigger and better.

Once out of the clubhouse, the final stop of the tour is the Press Box area. First, here’s a view of the tunnel between the Yankees Clubhouse and their dugout:

Just to your right, as you enter the Press Box, is the Stadiums Operations booth. And, that’s where Bob Sheppard’s “plaque” (for lack of a better name) is:

Like the dugout and the clubhouse, the press area is a tight squeeze. And, the seats there were small. I’m sure some of the larger members of the media will be looking forward to the new Stadium as much as the Yankees players will be looking forward to it. In any event, the view from the Press Box cannot be beat:

And, for those who think that a Yankees blogger can never get into the Press Box at Yankee Stadium, well, this proves you wrong:

As I mentioned yesterday, it was a thrill to take this tour. If you’ve never taken it, and were considering it, go for it. It’s worth the trip – trust me. And, there’s not a lot of time left to get it done – since this is the last season for this Stadium.

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