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Yankee Stadium hosted much more than baseball

By Jim Baker
Special to Page 2

Monday, September 22, 2008

Sunday night we saw the end of the baseball career of Yankee Stadium -- or, as it was sometimes known, "The White Pile," "The Big Barn in the Bronx," and "Colonel Ruppert's Rumpus Room." But in its eight-plus decades of operation, the stadium hosted much more than just baseball and football games. Here is an accounting of some of its lesser-known events. The Marble Championships of America: Oct. 9-11, 1925 In the time before the NBA existed and before the NFL and NHL were firmly established, pl ...

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