Succeeded: Old Yankee Stadium
Location: East 161st Street & River Avenue, Bronx, New York Owner: New York Yankees Architect: Populous Capacity: 52, 325 Opened: April 16, 2009 MLB betting fans have come to love the new Yankee Stadium ever since it was opened last season. Along with the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals, the 2009 New York Yankees are the only team to win the World Series for in the same year they entered a new building. Baseball betting fans have switched from viewing Yankee Stadium as the house that Ruth built, to the house that Jeter and Rodriguez built. Over the 85 year history of the old Yankee Stadium, Yankee fans enjoyed much success as their team won 26 titles. However from 2000 to 2008 the Yankees went on a drought as they did not collect a single World Series title. In New York, if you are not winning titles, things need to change. As a result not only was the roster over hauled a number of times until the right combination of players was produced, but they decided to go into a new stadium. This turned out to be the right move as from start to finish in the 2009 season, there was no team better then the Yankees. The World Series win that followed in October of 2009 was the peaking point of one of the best teams the game has ever seen. Construction of a new Yankee Stadium had been discussed since the middle of the 1980s when former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner petitioned for a new stadium funded by the city of New York. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Steinbrenner and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani reached a tentative agreement for the city to split the cost with the Yankees on a new stadium. However that was rescinded by the new mayor of New York and the Yankees ended up footing the bill.
