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6:50AM | posted by Shelley Ng | July 20, 2009 | comments: 0

New Yankees Book Offers Insight To 'The Final Season' At The Old Stadium

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We're more than halfway through the first season at the New Yankee Stadium. However, today we're taking a look back at the old stadium which is chronicled in the new book The Final Season: The Official Retrospective by Alfred Santasiere III, director of publications for the New York Yankees.

The Final Season, by Santasiere and Mark Vancil, provides the last look at the Stadium from the inside out with more than 150 never-before-published photographs and a moving introduction by Yankees legend Yogi Berra. This keepsake also features first-person accounts from Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, along with Yankees greats from every generation.

This photojournalistic chronicle captures all the significant moments of the final season, including Pope Benedict XVI’s historic Mass, the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the final Old-Timers’ Day and the final game at the iconic Stadium.

"For any fan of American sports, The Final Season is as unique as Yankee Stadium itself and essential to any book collection. For Yankees fans, the book captures all the magic, mystery and majesty of the most versatile outdoor venue in the history of the modern world. Around a baseball season that stretched from April to September, Yankee Stadium hosted events of all kinds. From Pope Benedict XVI s emotional Mass celebrated on an altar built over second base, to Military Appreciation Day, Major League Baseball s All-Star Game, the final Old-Timers Day and the final game played in the House That Ruth Built, the Stadium remained true to its history as America s grandest outdoor stage," says the publication.

At 192 pages, The Final Season: The Official Retrospective retails for $35 and is available online at www.yankees.com/publications or by calling (800) GO-YANKS.

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