Yankee Stadium

Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. was a guest on "Boomer & Carton" on WFAN in New York this week. He talked about Orioles manager Buck Showalter and reiterated that the pitching staff will have to hold up for Baltimore to compete in the AL East. For me, the most interesting part of the interview was when hosts Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton asked Ripken if it was special to play at the old Yankee Stadium . "Absolutely," Ripken said. "I’ll preface it by saying it’s not good to play in it when you’re good and they’re bad because I’ve been there during the 80s when that was the case.

Today's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference baseball game between No. 4-seeded Archbishop Curley and No. 1-seeded Gilman has been moved to Yankee Stadium at the Ripken Complex in Aberdeen.  The game will begin at 6 p.m.

Buck Showalter has been back to New York a few times in the past 15 years, as manager of the Texas Rangers and on Old Timer's Day to the old Yankee Stadium as well as a guest for Opening Day at the inaugural season at the new stadium. "They almost did too good a job of copying the old place, if you didn't look at the suites and everything else, you'd think you're in the same ballpark," Showalter said. When the Orioles play the Yankees Monday in New York, Showalter will be in the visiting dugout again.

You're an Orioles fan and the big question on your mind now is: How long will it last? A 9-6 win over the Boston Red Sox in 17 innings Sunday for their fifth win in a row and ninth in 11 games? Are you kidding me? With Adam Jones taking Darnell McDonald's cream puff fastball over Fenway Park's Green Monster for the game-winning three-run blast? And designated hitter Chris Davis on the mound for the Orioles, looking like Mariano Rivera as he strikes out Adrian Gonzalez with two on and one out before inducing a game-ending double play?

Key dates in the history of Yankee Stadium:1919: Yankees buy Babe Ruth from Boston Red Sox. His popularity boosts attendance and allows Yankees owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to finance Bronx stadium project.April 18, 1923: Stadium opens as first baseball park in America with a third deck, first to be called a "stadium." Holds 67,224 people. Building cost: $3.2 million. Babe Ruth hits three-run homer in opener to lead Yankees to 4-1 win over Red Sox. In October, Yankees win their first World Series, 4 games to 2, over New York Giants.

Yesterday's fan-aided home run may have seemed familiar to Orioles fans with good memories. On Aug. 15, 1993, much the same thing happened at Yankee Stadium.That day, the Orioles lost to the New York Yankees, 1-0, on a homer by Don Mattingly to right field in the eighth. Mattingly hit a fly ball that was caught by Tim McKenzie, a 16-year-old fan from Durham, Conn., who reached over the wall. McKenzie prevented right fielder Mark McLemore, who had leaped, from making a play.When asked if he could have caught the ball, McLemore said: "Yes.

NEW YORK -- Reality -- as vivid as one gash in the ceiling, as dangerous as one falling chunk of steel and concrete -- now hangs over Yankee Stadium.We can no longer be sentimental about the old place, can no longer say: "Oh, come on, who needs a new ballpark? Take the subway, drive there early, take a walk in the neighborhood, buy your lunch in a bodega, have a nice time in the Bronx."One decayed expansion joint, one nasty projectile falling on an empty seat, has turned Yankee Stadium into a talk-show joke.

NEW YORK - The day began with the reading of the most solemn, sad roster imaginable. We shall not forget. Absolutely. From the hole in the ground where the Twin Towers once stood, name after noble name was breathed into the air yesterday. And the air stirred. It whipped and spun all over sunny New York City, making people here believe that the souls of the lost were restless. One year later, one year to the day that 2,801 victims were killed at the World Trade Center, it was impossible not to at least consider that the calling of those names was why tree branches snapped off and crashed to the ground; why dirt blew up in mini-twisters; why hats flew and hair swirled.

NEW YORK -- The Texas Rangers survived the onslaught. Now they must survive the Bronx.The Rangers held off a furious late-season charge by the Seattle Mariners to win their first division title in franchise history. They overcame 25 years of historical insignificance only to find themselves in a highly charged playoff matchup against the New York Yankees in a place where the historical significance is as daunting as the opponent.No one knows just what it will be like, but if the head-to-head series between the Yankees and the Orioles is any indication, Yankee Stadium still is a very difficult place to play pressure baseball.

NEW YORK -- Yesterday morning, Andrea Soren-Miller buttoned her Derek Jeter jersey, tugged on her Yankees cap, and walked toward the Shea Stadium turnstiles. She couldn't help but rub her eyes."I can't believe it: the Yanks playing a home game on the Mets field," said the 26-year-old store manager. "The sky really is falling."In New York, it certainly looks that way. A 500-pound steel beam that fell out of Yankee Stadium's upper deck Monday rocked an already shaky city. The 75-year-old ballpark has closed until April 24 for inspections and any repairs, the Bronx Bombers had to play the Angels yesterday in Queens, and New Yorkers everywhere are talking about the latest piece of Big Apple architecture to come crashing down to earth.

NEW YORK - On Opening Day at Camden Yards, Oriolesstarter Jake Arrieta talked about setting the tone for the season with a quality start. A month later at Yankee Stadium, it was Arrieta continuing to follow the lead of his rotation-mates, throwing eight shutout innings in a 5-0 win over the New York Yankees in what has become an impressive and, frankly, unexpected run of starting pitching.    Surprising, apparently, to everyone but those wearing orange and black. “Those guys have great stuff and great ability,” said Orioles catcher Matt Wieters, whose fourth-inning homer gave his team all the offense it would need.

Twenty years ago, I was thrilled to stand in a line that wrapped around the B&O warehouse in the hope that I'd be able to purchase a standing room only ticket to see the Baltimore Orioles play at Camden Yards. That seemed much longer ago the other night when I was put in a position to defend the empty seats around me at Camden Yards and defend the integrity of the home of the Orioles. Do opposing teams' fans have a right to visit Camden Yards? Absolutely. Do they have a right to cheer for their team?

NEW YORK - Fifty years later, Sal Durante admitted he was so short, he needed to stand on his seat to catch that ball - the one hit by Roger Maris, a man whose stature just keeps growing. There was only admiration Saturday at Yankee Stadium for the reluctant and possibly under-appreciated star whose 61st home run on Oct. 1, 1961, broke what had been the most revered record in sports. The Yankees brought back Maris' family. They brought back two sons of Mickey Mantle, who had been the people's choice in a two-way race to break Babe Ruth's venerated single-season home run mark.

The 1968 football game between Baltimore's Morgan State and what was then Louisiana's Grambling College was a good one - a nail-biter that went down to the wire. But the history and sociology of the event are what truly matter. And hats off to CBS Sports for committing the resources to telling that story with so much sensitivity and cultural context in a documentary, "1st & Goal in the Bronx: Grambling vs. Morgan State, 1968," premiering 7 p.m. Wednesday on the CBS Sports Network.

The 1968 football game between Baltimore's Morgan State and what was then Louisiana's Grambling College was a good one — a nail-biter that went down to the wire. But the history and sociology of the event are what truly matter. And hats off to CBS Sports for committing the resources to telling that story with so much sensitivity and cultural context in a documentary, "1st & Goal in the Bronx: Grambling vs. Morgan State, 1968," premiering 7 p.m. Wednesday on the CBS Sports Network.

NEW YORK - If the goal this week for the Orioles was to spend as many hours as possible in the lavish confines of the new Yankee Stadium, they can come home happy. If they were hoping to make a dent in the playoff hopes of the New York Yankees, they certainly took their sweet time about it. The O's were hitless in their first 12 at-bats with runners in scoring position Wednesday before Mark Reynolds finally singled home Matt Angle in the 11th inning to avert a three-game sweep with a 5-4 victory.

Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts loves playing at Yankee Stadium, though he expects today's visit for the start of a three-game series to have a vastly different feel. It was seven months ago yesterday when Roberts was helped off the Yankee Stadium field, wincing in pain and clutching his dangling left arm, severely damaged in a collision with Yankees base runner Bubba Crosby while he was covering first base on a bunt play. Today marks the All-Star second baseman's return to the scene where he first considered that his career could be over.

The 1968 football game between Baltimore's Morgan State and what was then Louisiana's Grambling College was a good one - a nail-biter that went down to the wire. But the history and sociology of the event are what truly matter. And hats off to CBS Sports for committing the resources to telling that story with so much sensitivity and cultural context in a documentary, "1st & Goal in the Bronx: Grambling vs. Morgan State, 1968," premiering 7 p.m. Wednesday on the CBS Sports Network.

The Orioles were still talking Wednesday morning about Francisco Cervelli 's disputed home run, which broke a 3-3 tie in the seventh inning of the Yankees' ridiculously rain-delayed 5-3 victory the night before at Yankee Stadium. The play had Jeffrey Maier overtones, with a fan reaching over the fence to interfere with the ball and the umpires calling it a home run. This time, however, they were able to review the play before confirming the call, though that didn't really end the controversy.

Two days after joining the 3,000-hit club in about the coolest way imaginable, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter will reportedly skip Tuesday night’s All-Star Game because of "emotional and physical exhaustion. " Jeter went 5-for-5 on Saturday, hitting his milestone on a home run and winning the game for the Yankees with a go-ahead single in the eighth inning of a 5-4 win over the Rays. Afterward, Jeter, the first Yankees player to get 3,000 hits, admitted that the pressure to reach 3,000 took a much bigger toll than he let on . “I’ve been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn’t nervous and there’s no pressure,” an admittedly “relieved” Jeter told reporters on Saturday.