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Monument Park is an open-air museum located in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City. It contains a collection of monuments, plaques, and retired numbers honoring distinguished members of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
Visit iconic locations such as Monument Park, where the Bronx Bombers' greatest legends are enshrined. Discover the Yankees' heroes, milestones and winning tradition inside the New York Yankees Museum, presented by Bank of America.
Monument Park is inside Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, and contains a museum collection of monuments, plaques, and retired numbers honoring New York Yankees legends. The park opens when gates open and closes 45 minutes prior to the start of the game.
Dec 15, 2017 · The new Monument Park, which opened along with Yankee Stadium in 2009, is made from 125 tons of blue pearl granite imported from the northern tip of Finland. Plaques commemorating services given by Pope Paul VI in 1965 and Pope John Paul II in 1979 first greet fans walking down into Monument Park.
Mar 30, 2009 · Sadly, renovations in the mid-1970s brought the center-field fence in and took the monuments out of play. Now that there was an official, cordoned-off Monument Park, though, the team decided to turn it into a shrine for all things Yankees: Casey Stengel was honored in 1976, Thurman Munson in 1980, Yogi Berra in 1988.
Mar 20, 2023 · On May 30, 1932, the Yankees held a ceremony at Yankee Stadium to honor their beloved deceased manager. In front of 42,990 witnesses, the monument was unveiled in the deepest part of left-center field, roughly 460 feet from home plate. It was the first in what has become known as Monument Park. ***
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Mar 14, 2023 · Monument Park at Yankee Stadium is a place where legends are immortalized for eternity with arguably the most revered franchise in not only baseball but all of sports.
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