Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil
Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles the entire history
of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports
history, a stadium that will see its final Yankees game in
2008.
As Yankee Stadium is about to become a memory, an indelible part
of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, Neil
Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx offers a fascinating account of
its history and its position at the intersection of sports,
business, government, and society, Sullivan tells how Yankee
Stadium came to be built in 1923, at a time when the Bronx was a
burgeoning borough that held middle class housing for immigrants as
well as hunting lodges for wealthy Manhattanites, an era when small
children could ride the subway, alone, to the ball game, and when
many of the ballplayers themselves lived on the Grand Concourse. As
the city and the Bronx changed, Yankeedom changed too, and the
stadium is now surrounded by of parking lots, symbolic of the
team's suburban fan base and the decline of the South Bronx. In
recent years the team has threatened to leave New York City,
prompting extravagant proposals for keeping it there, including a
billion dollar new stadium in Manhattan to be financed with public
money. The resulting stadium controversy tells us much about the
public's changing views of government and the changing nature of
professional sports.
For Yankee fans, baseball aficionados, and anyone interested in
the increasingly vexed relationship between sports, business, and
politics, The Diamond in the Bronx offers a wealth of detail,
insight, and historical perspective.
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