Brandon Allen hit a ball as far as anyone had in the right-field upper deck at the new Yankee Stadium while hitting two home runs for the Oakland A's, while New York Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher's bid at a second homer fell just short as Oakland squeezed out a 6-5...

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A concrete-testing laboratory faked results for a LaGuardia Airport control tower, the new Yankee Stadium, the Lincoln Tunnel and more than a dozen other projects around the city, creating thousands of phony reports for tests designed to make sure concrete was strong enough, prosecutors said Thursday.

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As a long-time New York Yankees fan, it has always been a dream of mine to visit Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. While I never made it to the old stadium, in August of 2010 I finally took the trip to New York and took in a game at the new Yankee Stadium -- and it was well worth it.

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Like many baseball fans around the country, one of my favorite things about baseball season is visiting a variety of ballparks. As a longtime New York Yankees fan, I made my first trip to the new Yankee Stadium in 2010, but I'm always looking for something different -- like checking out the minor league affiliates where the team's top prospects go to hone their craft. The Yankees currently have eight minor league affiliates, from the Dominican Summer Leagues to the International League.

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The New York Yankees have put a statue of former owner George Steinbrenner at the team's spring training complex. The 600-pound, life-size bronze statue was put on a marble stand Friday at the entrance of the ballpark named for Steinbrenner, who died at 80 in July. The 6-foot statue, on a 3-foot granite pedestal, is identical to one in the lobby of new Yankee Stadium.

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Yankee Stadium wasn't that much of a home run haven this year. There were 223 homers hit at the second-year ballpark, down from a major league-leading 237 last year. The Yankees hit 115, according to STATS LLC, a drop from 136 last season. Last year there were home runs in 80 of 81 regular-season games, all but in the Washington Nationals' damp 3-0 win on June 18 that started after a 5-hour,...

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Helped by price cuts among the most expensive seats, the Yankees' home attendance went up 1.2 percent in the second season at their $1.5 billion ballpark. The Yankees averaged a major league-leading 46,491 for 81 regular-season home games, up from 45,918 in the stadium's opening season, when New York was second to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Joe Torre is expected at new Yankee Stadium for the first time for Monday night's unveiling of a monument honoring late owner George Steinbrenner. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig was to be on hand to escort Steinbrenner's widow, Joan, to Monument Park for the ceremony Monday night before a game against Tampa Bay, a baseball official familiar with the planning told The Associated Press.

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It’s a tough year to be a Yankee fan. With a $200 million payroll, the seats aren’t the cheapest MLB tickets, the beloved stadium is closing and the team has underperformed.

But New York Yankees tickets are still very popular with most games sold out. With the 56,000 seat Yankee Stadium closing, fans want to come one more time to the place that gave them so many memories over the years. And that may mean going to a New York ticket broker to visit Monument Park or do the roll call in the place they always have known and loved.

But it’s going to end very soon. With only seven games left, Yankee fans will say one last goodbye. It will be sad because there will be no October for the team either. If the fans want World Series tickets they will look to New York Mets tickets or Boston Red Sox tickets.

Many won’t and will forget sports until they gets New York Yankees tickets to New Yankee Stadium next year. Rather they will >find Broadway musical tickets, concert tickets for Madison Square Garden or Cheech & Chong in New York.

Whatever they look to do, these show will be more affordable New York City event tickets than the New York Yankees.

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