Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in
the Bronx
, the
northernmost borough of
New York
City
, New
York
. It serves as the home ballpark for the New York Yankees, replacing the previous Yankee
Stadium
, built in . The new ballpark was constructed across
the street, north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the
former site of Macombs Dam
Park
. The ballpark in the Bronx
opened April 2, 2009, when the Yankees hosted a workout day in front of
fans from the Bronx community. The first game at the new
Yankee Stadium was a preseason exhibition game against the
Chicago Cubs played on
April
3,
2009, which the Yankees won 7–4. The
first regular season game was played on
April
16, a 10–2 Yankee loss to the
Cleveland Indians.
Much of the stadium incorporates design elements from the previous
Yankee Stadium, paying homage to the Yankees' history. Although
stadium construction began in August 2006, the project of building
a new stadium for the Yankees is one that spanned many years and
faced many controversies, particularly the allocation of city funds
for construction instead of urban renewal projects.
The stadium cost a
total of $1.5 billion, making
it the second most expensive stadium in the world after Wembley Stadium
($1.57
billion).
History
Planning
New York Yankees owner
George
Steinbrenner began a visible campaign for the building of a new
stadium in the 1980s, going to the extreme of making statements
alleging unsafe conditions around the original Yankee Stadium,
disregarding the possibility that such statements could discourage
attendance at his own team's games.
Among the options allegedly considered by
the Yankees ownership was moving the team across the Hudson River
to New
Jersey
.
Shortly
before leaving office in December 2001, New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani announced
"tentative agreements" for both the New
York Yankees and New York Mets to
build new stadiums. Of $1.5 billion sought for the stadiums,
city and state taxpayers would pick up half the tab for
construction, $800 million, along with $390 million on extra
transportation. The plan also said that the teams would be allowed
to keep all parking revenues, which state officials had already
said they wanted to keep to compensate the state for building new
garages for the teams. The teams would keep 96% of ticket revenues
and 100% of all other revenues, not pay sales tax or property tax
on the stadium, and would get low-cost electricity from the state
of New York. Business officials criticized the plan as giving too
much money to successful teams with little reason to move to a
different city.
Michael Bloomberg, who succeeded
Giuliani as mayor in 2002, exercised the
escape clause in the agreements to back out of
both deals, saying that the city could not afford to build new
stadiums for the Yankees and Mets. Bloomberg said that unbeknownst
to him, Giuliani had inserted a clause in this deal which loosened
the teams' leases with the city and would allow the Yankees and
Mets to leave the city on 60 days' notice to find a new home
elsewhere if the city backed out of the agreement. At the time,
Bloomberg said that publicly funded stadiums were a poor
investment. Under Bloomberg, the New York City government would
only offer public financing for infrastructure improvements; the
teams would have to pay for the stadium themselves. Bloomberg
called the former mayor's agreements "
corporate welfare."
Giuliani had already
been instrumental in the construction of taxpayer-funded minor
league baseball facilities KeySpan Park
for the Mets' minor league Brooklyn Cyclones and Richmond
County Bank Ballpark
for the Staten
Island Yankees.
Construction
Yankee Stadium under construction in
November 2007
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the
stadium took place on August 16, 2006, the 58th anniversary of
Babe Ruth's death, with Steinbrenner,
Bloomberg and then-
Governor of New
York George Pataki among the
notables donning Yankees hard hats and wielding ceremonial shovels
to mark the occasion. The Yankees continued to play in the previous
Yankee Stadium during the 2007 and 2008 seasons while their new
home stadium was built across the street.
During construction of the stadium, a construction worker and avid
Boston Red Sox fan, buried a replica jersey of Red Sox
player
David Ortiz underneath the
visitors' dugout with the objective of placing a "
hex" on the Yankees, much like the "
Curse of the Bambino" that had plagued
the Red Sox long after trading Ruth to the Yankees. After the
worker was exposed by co-workers, he was forced to help exhume the
jersey. The Yankees organization then donated the retrieved jersey
to the
Jimmy Fund, a charity started in
1948 by the Red Sox'
National League
rivals, the
Boston Braves, but long
championed by the Red Sox and particularly associated with
Ted Williams. The worker has since claimed to
have buried a
2004 American League
Championship Series program/scorecard, but has not said where
he placed it.
Financing
$1.5 million of New York state tax revenue will be used to build
parking garages (as authorized by the State Legislature). The
parking garage project would cost $320 million. City and state
taxpayers will forgo up to $7.5 million annually in lost taxes
resulting from the sale of $225 million in tax-exempt bonds
authorized on October 9, 2007, by the
New York City
Industrial Development Agency (administered by the
New York City
Economic Development Corporation) to finance construction and
renovation of the parking garages. However, if the parking revenues
are not enough to pay a reported $3.2 million land lease to the
city, the entity that will operate the parking garages and collect
revenue will be able to defer that payment.
Features
The new stadium is meant to be very similar in design to the
original Yankee Stadium, both in its original 1923 state and its
post-renovation state in 2008. The exterior resembles the original
look of the 1923 Yankee Stadium. The interior, a modern ballpark
with greater space and increased amenities, features a playing
field that closely resembles the previous ballpark before its
closing.
Design and layout
The Indiana limestone exterior, shown
at Gate 4, mirrors the exterior of the original Yankee Stadium in
1923.
The stadium was designed by the architect firm
Populous (formerly HOK Sport). The
exterior was made from 11,000 pieces of
Indiana limestone, along with
granite and pre-cast concrete. The design closely
mirrors the exterior of the original Yankee Stadium when it first
opened in 1923. The exterior features the building's name V-cut and
gold-leaf lettered above each gate. The interior of the stadium is
adorned with hundreds of photographs capturing the history of the
Yankees. The
New York Daily News
newspaper partnered with the Yankees for the exhibition "The Glory
of the Yankees Photo Collection", which was selected from the Daily
News' collection of over 2,000 photographs.. Sports & The Arts
as hired by the Yankees to curate the nearly 1,300 photographs that
adorn the building from sources including the Daily News, Getty
Images, the Baseball Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball.
Walking onto the field during Game One of the 2009 World
Series.
The seats are laid out similar to the original stadium's stands,
with
grandstand seating that stretches
beyond the foul poles, as well as bleacher seats beyond the
outfield fences. The Field Level and Main Level comprise the lower
bowl, with suites on the
H&R Block
Level, and the Upper Level and Grandstand Level comprising the
upper bowl. Approximately two-thirds of the stadium's seating is in
the lower bowl, the inverse from the original Yankee Stadium.
Approximately 51,000 fans can be seated, with a standing room
capacity of 52,325. The new stadium's seating is spaced outward in
a bowl, unlike the stacked-tiers design at the old stadium. This
design places most fans farther back but lower to the field, by
about an average of 30 feet. Over 56 suites are located within the
ballpark, triple the amount from the previous stadium. Seats are
wide, up from the previous stadium's wide seats, while there is of
leg room, up from of leg room in the previous stadium. Many lower
level seats are cushioned, while all seats are equipped with
cupholders. To allow for the extra seating space, the stadium's
capacity is reduced by more than 4,000 seats in comparison to the
previous stadium.
The frieze that lined the roof of the
original Yankee Stadium from 1923-1973 is replicated in its
original location.
Many design elements of the ballpark's interior are inspired by the
original Yankee Stadium. The roof of the new facility features a
replica of the
frieze that was a trademark of
the previous ballpark. In the original Yankee Stadium, a copper
frieze originally lined the roof of the upper deck stands, but it
was torn down during the 1974–75 renovations and replicated atop
the wall beyond the bleachers. The new stadium replicates the
frieze in its original location along the upper deck stands. Made
of
steel coated with
zinc
for
rust protection, it is part of the support
system for the
cantilevers holding up the
top deck and the
lighting on the roof. The
wall beyond the bleacher seats is "cut out" to reveal the
subway trains as they pass by, like
they were in the original facility. A manually-operated auxiliary
scoreboard is built into the left and right field fences, in the
same locations it existed in the pre-renovation iteration of the
original Yankee Stadium.
The Great Hall is situated along the
southern front of the stadium.
Between the exterior perimeter wall and interior of the stadium is
the "Great Hall", a large concourse that runs between Gates 4 and
6. With seven-story ceilings, the Great Hall features more than of
retail space and is lined with 20 banners of past and present
Yankees superstars. The Great Hall features a LED (
light-emitting diode) ribbon.
Monument Park, which
features the Yankees' retired numbers, as well as monuments and
plaques dedicated to distinguished Yankees, has been moved from its
location beyond the left field fences in the original Yankee
Stadium to its new location beyond the center field fences at the
new facility. The newly relocated Monument Park is now situated
under the sports bar, this choice of location has drawn criticism
as the many monuments are underneath the sports bar and not as in
the open as in the previous Yankee Stadium. Fueling this criticism
has been the advent of black shades that cover monuments on the
back wall during games to prevent interference with the vision of
the batter. The new location of the monuments is meant to mirror
their original placement in center field at the original
pre-renovation Yankee Stadium, albeit when they were on the playing
field. The transfer of Monument Park from the old stadium to the
new stadium began on November 10, 2008. The first monuments were
put in place on February 23, 2009. Yankees pitcher
Mariano Rivera requested that the Yankees
reposition the team's bullpen, as well as add a door to connect the
Yankees' bullpen to Monument Park, in order to allow Yankees
relievers access to it. The organization complied with his
request.
Field dimensions and playing surface
The field dimensions for the outfield fences have the same distance
markers as the original facility prior to closing yet the
dimensions are not identical. Due to the design of the right-field
stands and the inclusion of an embedded manual scoreboard, the
right-field wall is an average of 5 feet closer to home plate.
Overall, the fences measure 318 feet to left field, 399 feet to
left-center field, 408 feet to center field, 385 feet to
right-center field, and 314 to right field. At the old Yankee
Stadium, the right field wall curved from the right-field corner to
straightaway center, while at the new ballpark the fence takes a
sharp, almost entirely straight angle. This results in a difference
at certain points between the right field markers of as much as 9
feet. The dimensions in left field are substantially the same
despite the presence of an embedded auxiliary scoreboard there as
well.
Yankee Stadium from the inside
The outfield fences measure high from the left-field foul pole
until the Yankees' bullpen, when the fences begin to gradually
descend in height until the right field foul pole, where they are
only tall. This also marks a decrease from the previous Yankee
Stadium, where the outfield walls stood at a height of
approximately 10 feet. The distance from home plate to the backstop
is , a reduction of from the previous facility.
The field is made up
of Kentucky bluegrass, the same
surface as the previous stadium, which is grown on a farm in
Bridgeton, New
Jersey
. The grass is equipped with a
drainage system (featuring over of pipe)
that makes the field playable an hour after taking of rain.
Comparison with the 1923 Stadium
|
Characteristic |
Old Stadium
[as of 2008] |
New Stadium |
| Opening Day |
April 18, 1923 |
April 16, 2009 |
| Capacity |
56,866 |
52,325 (including standing room) |
| Seat width |
18–22 inches (46–55 cm) |
19–24 inches (48–61 cm) |
| Legroom |
29.5 inches (75 cm) |
33–39 inches (84–99 cm) |
| Concourse width (average) |
|
|
| Cup holders |
Select Field Level Seating |
For every seat in General Seating |
| Luxury suites |
19 |
56 |
| Team stores |
|
|
| Restroom fixture ratio |
1 per 89 fans |
1 per 60 fans |
Public elevators
(passenger lifts)
|
3
(Otis
Traction)
|
16
(KONE Traction)
|
| Video scoreboard |
25 feet by 33 feet
(7.6 × 10.1 m)
(Standard Definition
LED)
|
59 feet by 101 feet
(18 × 30.8 m)
(High Definition
LED)
|
| Distance from Home Plate to: |
|
| Backstop |
|
|
| Left Field |
318 feet |
318 feet ( 96.9 m) |
| Left Center |
|
382 feet (116.4 m) |
| Center Field |
408 feet |
408 feet (124.4 m) |
| Right Center |
|
360 feet (109.7 m) |
| Right Field |
314 feet |
314 feet ( 95.7 m) |
| Sources: The New York
Yankees and Andrew Clem |
Amenities and facilities
Yankee Stadium features a wide array of amenities. It contains 63
percent more space, 500,000 square feet more in total, than the
previous stadium, with wider concourses and open sight lines on
concourses. Along with 227 miles of wired
Ethernet cable, the building has sufficient
fiber-optic cable wiring that
Cisco Vice President and Treasurer David
Holland calls the building "future proof". Over 1,100
high-definition video monitors are placed within the stadium and
approximately $10 million worth of baseball merchandise is housed
within the ballpark.
The
center field scoreboard, which measures 59 x 101 feet and offers
5,925 square feet of viewing area, was the third-largest high
definition scoreboard in the world when it opened (behind the 8,736
square foot board at newly renovated Kauffman Stadium
and the new 8,066 square foot board at the
renovated Tokyo
Racecourse
). Displaying 5,925 ft² of video, the
scoreboard can display four
1080p high
definition images simultaneously.
The Yankees clubhouse features 30,000 ft² of space, over 2.5 times
the space of the clubhouse from the previous facility. The dressing
area alone features 3,344 ft² of space, with each locker equipped
with a
safety deposit box and
touch-screen computer. The Yankees clubhouse features a
weight room, training room, video room, and
lounge area, while both teams' clubhouses have their own indoor
batting cages. The Yankees' therapy
room features a
hydrotherapy pool
with an underwater treadmill. The Yankees are believed to be the
first team to chemically treat their uniforms, as well as the
showering surfaces with an anti-bacterial agent that reduces the
risk of infection.
The Yankees Museum, located on the lower level at Gate 6, displays
a wide range of Yankees' memorabilia. A "Ball Wall" features
hundreds of balls autographed by past and present Yankees, and
there are plans to eventually add autographs for every living
player who has played for the Yankees. The centerpiece of the
museum is a tribute to
Don Larsen's
perfect game in the
1956 World
Series, with a commemorative home plate in the floor and
statues of Larsen pitching to
Yogi Berra.
Along with a facsimile of a current locker from the Yankees'
clubhouse, fans can view the locker of the late
Thurman Munson, which sat unoccupied in the
previous stadium's Yankee clubhouse in honor of Munson.
The ballpark offers a wide choice of restaurants. There are 25
fixed concessions stands, along with 112 moveable ones. A
Hard Rock Cafe is located within the
ballpark, but it is open to anyone at the 161 St. and River Ave.
entrance year round. The Hard Rock Cafe at Yankee Stadium
officially opened on March 30, 2009, and an opening ceremony took
place on April 2, 2009. A
steakhouse
called NYY Steak is located beyond right field. Celebrity chefs
will occasionally make appearances at the ballpark's restaurants
and help prepare food for fans in premium seating over the course
of the season. Above Monument Park in center field is the Mohegan
Sun sports bar, whose tinted black glass acts as the ballpark's
batter's eye. The sports bar obstructs
the view of approximately 600 bleacher seats in the right and left
field bleachers, preventing fans from seeing the action occurring
deep in the opposite side of the outfield. In response, the Yankees
installed TV monitors on the sides of the sports bar's outer walls,
and have reduced the price of these obstructed-view seats from $12
to $5.
Accessibility and transportation
The
stadium is accessible via the 161st Street–Yankee Stadium
station
, the same station that served the old Yankee
Stadium, on the B,
D, and 4 lines of the New York City Subway.
It is
also served by the Yankees-E.
153rd Street station on the Metro-North
Railroad which opened on May 23, 2009, which routinely features
Hudson Line train service, but on game
days, Harlem Line and New Haven Line trains also platform there, as
well as shuttle trains from Grand Central Terminal
. The stadium is also served by multiple bus
lines.
On
game days, NY Waterway operates the
"Yankee Clipper" ferry route stopping at Port Imperial (Weehawken
) and Hoboken
in New Jersey and West 38th Street, Pier 11 (Wall
Street), and East 34th Street in Manhattan. For selected games,
SeaStreak provides high-speed ferry
service to Highlands, New Jersey
.
Aside from existing parking lots and garages serving the stadium,
construction for additional parking garages is planned. The
New York State Legislature
agreed to $70 million in subsidies for a $320 million parking
garage project. On October 9, 2007, the
New York City Industrial Development Agency
approved $225 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance construction
of three new parking garages that will have 3,600 new parking
spaces, and renovation of the existing 5,569 parking spaces nearby.
Plans initially called for a fourth new garage, but this was
eliminated before the final approval.
The garages will be
built (and renovated) by the Community Initiatives Development
Corporation of Hudson,
N.Y.
, a nonprofit entity that will use the parking
revenue to repay the bonds and pay a $3 million yearly land lease
to the City of New York. Parking is expected to cost $25 per
game.
Public opinion
Opening and public perception
Although Yankee Stadium has been praised for its amenities and its
usage of "classic" design elements from the original facility, the
new stadium has been widely criticized for fan-unfriendly
practices. Seats within the first eight rows in the lower bowl,
called the "Legends Suite", rank among the highest priced tickets
in professional sports, with the average ticket in the section
selling for $510 and the most expensive single game-day ticket
costing $2,600. Legends Suite Seats have been regularly empty, with
many ticket holders in this section having given up their tickets,
and others remaining unsold, despite most other seats in the
ballpark selling out. This has created an "embarrassing" image on
television of the seats behind home plate being almost completely
vacant. Consequently, a surplus of tickets for Legends Seats have
emerged in the secondary market, and with supply exceeding demand,
resale prices have dropped. Empty
seats in the Legends Suite could even be seen during the 2009
playoffs, including World Series games. Even though all playoff
games have been sellouts, Legends Suite ticket holders are in the
lounges and the restaurant underneath instead of their seats.
For the 2009 postseason, Yankee Stadium became the first stadium in
sports history to bar backpacks exclusively for the playoffs
Legends Suite seats are also separate from the other lower bowl
seating and are patrolled by stadium security, with the divider
being described as a "concrete moat". Fans that do not have tickets
within this premium section in the front rows are not allowed to
access it or stand behind the dugouts during batting practice to
watch players hit and request autographs.
The Yankee Stadium staff was also criticized for an incident during
a May 4, 2009 game, which was interrupted by a rain delay. Fans
were told by some staff members that the game was unlikely to
resume and consequently, many fans exited the stadium, only for the
game to eventually resume play. The fans that left the ballpark
were not permitted to re-enter, per the stadium's re-entry policy,
and many subsequently got into arguments with stadium personnel. In
response to the backlash the Yankees received for the incident, the
staff members were required to sign a
gag
order preventing them from speaking to media, but they did
indicate that communication for rain delays would be
improved.
After less than a season, cracks have appeared on the concrete
ramps of the Stadium. The Yankees are trying to determine whether
there was something wrong with the cement, or the ramps'
installation or design. The company involved in designing the
concrete mix were indicted on charges that they either faked or
failed to perform some required tests and falsified the results of
others.
Home run haven
Yankee Stadium has quickly acquired a reputation as a "bandbox" and
a "launching pad" due to the high number of home runs hit at the
new ballpark.
Through its first 23 games, 87 home runs
were hit at the venue, easily besting Enron Field
's (now called Minute Maid Park) previous record set
in 2000. Early in the season, Yankee Stadium was on
pace to break Coors
Field
's 1999 single-season record of 303 home runs
allowed, and the hometown New
York Daily News newspaper started publishing a daily
graphic comparing each stadium's home run totals through a similar
number of games.
ESPN commentator
Peter Gammons has
denounced the new facility as "one of the biggest jokes in
baseball" and concludes that "[it] was not a very well-planned
ballpark." Likewise, Gammons' ESPN colleague
Buster Olney has described the stadium as being
"on steroids" and likened it to his childhood
Wiffle-ball park.
Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews joined in
the criticism, labeling the stadium "ridiculous" and decrying its
cheapening of the home run. Former Yankee
Reggie Jackson termed the park "too small" to
contain current player
Alex Rodriguez
and suggested it might enable the third baseman to hit 75 home runs
in a season.
A variety of theories have been posited to account for the dramatic
increase in home runs at the new Yankee Stadium over the original
stadium, foremost among these the sharper angles of the outfield
walls and the speculated presence of a
wind
tunnel. During construction of the new ballpark, engineers
commissioned a wind study, the results of which indicated there
would be no noticeable difference between the two stadiums. The
franchise is planning to conduct a second study, but Major League
rules prohibit it from making any changes to the playing field
until the off-season.
An independent study by the weather service provider
AccuWeather in June 2009 concluded that the
shape and height of the right field wall, rather than the wind, is
responsible for the proliferation of home runs at the stadium.
AccuWeather's analysis found that roughly 20% of the home runs hit
at the new ballpark would not have been home runs at the old
ballpark due to the gentle curve of its right field corner, and its
10-foot wall height. Nothing was observed in wind speeds and
patterns that would account for the increase.
The number of home runs hit at the new stadium slowed significantly
as the season progressed, but a new single-season record for most
home runs hit at a Yankee home ballpark was nonetheless set in the
Yankees' 73rd home game of
2009 when
Vladimir Guerrero of the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
hit the 216th home run of the season at the venue, surpassing the
previous record of 215 set at the original Yankee Stadium in
2005.
Yankee Stadium firsts
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Logo for the inaugural season at the
Stadium.
Before the official Opening Day against the Cleveland Indians
April 16, 2009, the Yankees hosted a
two-game exhibition series at the Stadium in early April against
the
Chicago Cubs. Grady Sizemore of the
Indians was the first player to hit a
grand slam off of Yankee pitcher
Dámaso Marte. The Indians and 2008
Cy Young Award winner, Cliff Lee, spoiled the opening of the new
stadium by winning 10-2. Before the Yankees went to bat for the
first time, the bat that
Babe Ruth used to
hit his first home run at the old Yankee Stadium in 1923 was placed
momentarily on home plate.
Jorge Posada
hit the first Yankee home run in the new ballpark hitting his off
Lee in the same game.
Like its predecessor Yankee
Stadium , Yankee Stadium hosted the World Series in its very
first season, which the Yankees won 4 games to 2, over the
Philadelphia Phillies. It also became the latest stadium to have
had the World Series won there, in its first season, by its home
team (after the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series at
Busch
Stadium
in 2006) when, on November 5, 2009, the Yankees won
their 27th World Series
championship against the Phillies.
Other events
The first ever non-baseball event at the Stadium took place on
April 25, 2009, with pastor and televangelist
Joel Osteen holding a “Historic Night of Hope”
prayer service.
A
New York
University
graduation ceremony took place on May 13, 2009 with
the address being delivered by U.S. Secretary of State and
former New York Senator
Hillary
Clinton.
The promotional tour for the
Pacquiao-
Cotto
began with an event at Yankee Stadium on September 10, 2009.
The
Army Black Knights
will play a
college football game
at Yankee Stadium against The
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
on November 20, 2010. This will mark the two teams' first meeting
in the Bronx since 1969. Also, Army will play Air Force, Rutgers,
and Boston College in 2011, 2012, and 2014 respectively at Yankee
Stadium.
Yankee Stadium will also host the newly-created
Yankee Bowl, an annual college football
bowl game that will pit the fourth-place team from
the
Big East against the
seventh-place team from the
Big
12. Organizers plan to hold the inaugural game between December
12, 2010 and January 2, 2011. If approved by the NCAA, the Yankee
Bowl would become the 35th game in the Football Bowl
Subdivision.
See also
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- http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/56161/
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http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090720&content_id=5959494&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/ncaa/09/29/yankee-bowl/
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, a new baseball stadium for
the New York Mets (National League) also opened in 2009,
replacing the Mets' previous home Shea Stadium
in northern Queens
(New York
City).
, a proposed arena for the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball
Association to be built by and over the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority's Atlantic Avenue railyards in
northwestern Brooklyn
(New York City).
, a new football stadium for the New York Giants and the New York Jets of the National Football League to replace
Giants
Stadium
at the Meadowlands Sports Complex
in East Rutherford
, New
Jersey
, the new stadium for the Major League Soccer team New York Red Bulls, to replace Giants
Stadium
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