12/02: Instead of Auction, Yankees Should Start Museum
Posted by: Patrick
From Beckett.com:
I agree with Steve. What are we doing? Selling Layton's organ? This stuff should be kept and we should build the finest individual sports team museum in the world. I mean, if any MLB team deserves it's own museum, surely the Yankees are at the top of the list? There is so much that you could do with it. Would it conflict with the Baseball Hall of Fame? Possibly, but there is enough cool stuff to go around.
I was thinking... "perhaps they could do a museum in the old Yankee Stadium?" So, I Googled it and came up with this, in regard to the old stadium:
Is that... a Yankees museum, perhaps? In any case, this stuff should be saved, not sold.
Via Steve.
The organ, played by the late Yankee Stadium legend, Eddie Layton will be just one of over 200 items to go on the block during an auction to be held from 3-6PM on Friday, December 9th by Yankees-Steiner Collectibles and Grey Flannel Auctions. ...
... The Yankees Manager’s desk chair will be auctioned off along with some of the most historic memorabilia in Yankees history including; the earliest known autographed Mickey Mantle game bat, a Babe Ruth game used bat... Also included in the auction is a 1942 Joe DiMaggio game-used pinstripe jersey, Mickey Mantle’s 1955 game-used autographed jersey and numerous other one of a kind iconic memorabilia from the history of the New York Yankees.
Fans will also be able to bid on many great Ruth and Gehrig autographed items, a section of Yankee Stadium’s outfield wall pad, including the 399-foot marker and Derek Jeter’s 2005 Opening Day jersey.
... The Yankees Manager’s desk chair will be auctioned off along with some of the most historic memorabilia in Yankees history including; the earliest known autographed Mickey Mantle game bat, a Babe Ruth game used bat... Also included in the auction is a 1942 Joe DiMaggio game-used pinstripe jersey, Mickey Mantle’s 1955 game-used autographed jersey and numerous other one of a kind iconic memorabilia from the history of the New York Yankees.
Fans will also be able to bid on many great Ruth and Gehrig autographed items, a section of Yankee Stadium’s outfield wall pad, including the 399-foot marker and Derek Jeter’s 2005 Opening Day jersey.
I agree with Steve. What are we doing? Selling Layton's organ? This stuff should be kept and we should build the finest individual sports team museum in the world. I mean, if any MLB team deserves it's own museum, surely the Yankees are at the top of the list? There is so much that you could do with it. Would it conflict with the Baseball Hall of Fame? Possibly, but there is enough cool stuff to go around.
I was thinking... "perhaps they could do a museum in the old Yankee Stadium?" So, I Googled it and came up with this, in regard to the old stadium:
The field and most of the shell of the current stadium will be preserved, and the city and state will help build a hotel, convention center, a high school for sports medicine and sports management, a museum and other offices in and around the current stadium.
Is that... a Yankees museum, perhaps? In any case, this stuff should be saved, not sold.
Via Steve.
