Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>Ben</b><p>My grandfather purchased a chair from Yankee Stadium when they did the renovations in the 70's. It has a curved back. I was wondering if this type of chair was there in 1923 or was added later (1940's or so). I think I once read that the original '23 chairs all had straight backs. I will try to post a pic later. Any info is appreciated.

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>David Atkatz</b><p>The original 1923 seats all had straight backs. The box seats, or, as they were called "box chairs," <i>were</i> actual chairs--you can see them in many pictures of the Stadium in the 1920s. Those chairs were eventually replaced by the curved-back seats.<br /><br />(Seats are permanently mounted, while chairs are free to be moved around.)

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>MVSNYC</b><p>any news yet on who/how the current Yankee Stadium items will be sold/auctioned-off?

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Sarno,<br /><br />Steiner has the exclusive on every last crumb of Yankee Stadium as far as I know. Best to let all the over-spenders empty their wallets first and wait a little bit for something to come up on the secondary market. Either that or wait until Steiner (undoubtedly) wholesales remaining inventory.

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Posted By: <b>MVSNYC</b><p>Jodi- thanks...<br /><br />Steiner's prices are thru the roof...check out some of his game-used yankees prices, ridiculous.<br /><br />

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>As I said, patience will be your best bet in this case. I mean, we're talking about a <i>whole stadium</i> here! This material will permanently flood the market ad nauseum. All I can think of are "Chunks that Ruth Built" insert cards, and can't help but envisioning those tacky 1"X1" swatches affixed to cards saying "Ringo Slept Here". <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> A piece of Ebbets Field, Hilltop Park, etc. would be a <i>real</i> treasure. To me, there's just no beauty in numbers. I'd want to pick up something unique if I were in the market for a piece of Yankee Stadium--something along the lines of that large letter "N" that David owns.

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>David Atkatz</b><p>Hey, Jodi--it's an "M."<br /><br />Man, would I love to own a piece of Hilltop Park! I've got ticket stubs and programs, but I have never even heard of an actual part of the park itself. It was torn down in 1914.<br /><br />BTW, NYC owns the Stadium, and the City has not yet decided who will be granted the rights to sell off the pieces. It isn't necessarily Steiner--although they are in the running.<br /><br />There was a nice article on the selling of the Stadium in <i>New York</i> magazine a few weeks ago.

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>"N", "M"--tonato, tomato.<br /><br />I had heard the Steiner story as far back as nearly two years ago.

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>David Atkatz</b><p>Check out the <i>New York</i> article.

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Here's another source for old Stadium memorabilia, although the prices aren't much better than Steiner.<br /><br /><a href="http://hometown.aol.com/r1ch1ea/yankee.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://hometown.aol.com/r1ch1ea/yankee.html</a><br /><br />Ben, <br />From this site you can see the difference between the 1920's seats and the 1940's ones. <br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Ron Atkinson</b><p>Try contacting Paul Ferrante at Baseballjourney@aol.com. He's written a number of articles for SCD.

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Posted By: <b>Tom Russo</b><p>I have a straight backed Yankee stadium seat from the 1970s renovation. My brother actually picked it up at a yard sale years ago. It was in pieces in a box but was all there, just needed a welding repair. He paid $15 for it. I remember that they sold the seats at a local department store. I think it was E.J Korvettes. The cost was $7.50 plus two Winston box tops.

Question About Yankee Stadium Chairs
 

Posted By: <b>MVSNYC</b><p>this was on the website that Jim gave us the link to...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1216997479.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Jim VB</b><p>Tom, <br /><br />Korvette's is correct. And $7.50 is correct, but you actually needed 5, empty, Winston, crush-proof boxes!<br /><br /><br />(That's where I got mine, and no, I didn't remember the details, but that site I linked above actually has the original ad for sale. I'd love to have one, but not at $750!)