Yankee Stadium & Fenway Park (Boston Globe)

From The Boston Globe:

Excerpt of Article entitled "Historic home nears endgame: Bronx hardball cathedral, the site of Tuesday's Midsummer Classic, hosted some of the game's greatest moments, and many of its legendary stars" - By Gordon Edes - Globe Staff / July 13, 2008:

Janet Marie Smith is in the business of preserving the past, not tearing it down. She thinks of Yankee Stadium being dismantled - dis-Marised and dis-Berraed, dis-Reggied and dis-Jetered, too - and shudders to think that Fenway Park faced a similar death sentence until it was commuted by John W. Henry, Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino.

"It's hard to imagine how to bundle that history and take it with you," said Smith, the architect of the Fenway restoration.

The first time Smith visited Yankee Stadium, site of the All-Star Game Tuesday night, was in 1979, the summer before she graduated from architecture school. Originally from Atlanta, she had grown up a National League fan.

"Yankee Stadium is monumental," she said. "Everything about it is monumental. The facade, the approach, the scale, everything about it is monumental. Yankee Stadium, even when you say it, it has such a monumental, thundering image that it conjures up.

"Fenway is the exact opposite. Fenway is very intimate. It has always been a neighborhood ballpark. Yankee Stadium has always been a destination. Our park blends in with the surroundings. Yankee Stadium always was meant to be on a pedestal. From an architectural approach, the parks are almost polar opposites. I doubt either one of them thought or looked at the other. They just were what they were.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/articles/2008/07/13/historic_home_nears_endgame/


Also:
Edes' Top 10 Sox-Yankees games at Yankee Stadium - With Yankee Stadium hosting its final All-Star game this week, Globe Red Sox writer Gordon Edes gives us his Top 10 Red Sox-Yankees games in Yankee Stadium history.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/gallery/07_12_08_edes/