View of Yankee Stadium, 1923

Constructed between 1922 and 1923, this stadium was the home of the New York Yankees for 85 years. (It also hosted the New York Giants football team from 1956 to 1973.) Yankee Stadium was funded entirely by Yankees owner (and brewer and politician) Jacob Ruppert. The 58,000 seat venue was double the size of most other baseball stadiums at the time. Yankee Stadium officially opened on Wednesday, April 18, 1923, with the Yankees' first home game played against the Boston Red Sox, and they won their first World Series pendant during that inaugural season.

During its history, the stadium not only hosted sporting events, but concerts, Jehovah's Witnesses conventions, and papal masses. The highest attendance ever recorded was on August 3, 1958, with 123,707 people at the Jehovah's Witnesses International Convention. A substantial renovation in 1974 and 1975 saw the painting of the stadium's exterior, the removal of columns and the original roof, and the addition of a new upper shell, new seats, and an additional concourse. The field itself was also altered dramatically (with other field dimension changes made throughout the 1980s).

The Yankees final game here was played on September 21, 2008, and by March of 2010, the entire stadium was demolished. Today the land once occupied by the iconic, original Yankee Stadium is a park complex called Heritage Field.