Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Yankee Stadium

• Yankee Stadium is located in the South Bronx in New York City.

• It opened on April 2, 2009 as a replacement for the team's previous home, the original Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923.

• The first regular season game was played on April 16, a 10–2 Yankee loss to the Cleveland Indians.

National Baseball Hall of Fame

• Established in 1936 – Dedicated on June 12, 1939.

• Was founded by Stephen Clark-Clark sought to bring tourists to a city hurt by the Great Depression and Prohibition.

• It serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, and honors those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport.

• The Hall's motto is "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations.“

• About 315,000 people visit the Hall each year(as of 2009)

Buck O’Neil• was a first baseman and

manager in the Negro American League, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs. After his playing days, he worked as a scout, and became the first African American coach in Major League Baseball. In his later years he became a popular and renowned speaker and interview subject, helping to renew widespread interest in the Negro leagues, and played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

• On December 7, 2006, O'Neil was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• On October 24, 2007, O'Neil was posthumously given a Lifetime Achievement Award named after him by MLB.

Fenway Park

• Opened in 1912 and is the oldest ballpark in MLB

• It is the 4th smallest among MLB ballparks by seating capacity.

• On March 7, 2012 the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

• The first game was played on April 20,1912 with Boston defeating the New York Highlanders, 7-6.

• On September 8, 2008 Fenway Park broke the all time Major League record for consecutive sellouts with 456, in 2009 the park celebrated its 500th consecutive Red Sox sellout. The sellout streak ended in 2013; in all the Red Sox sold out 794 regular season games and 26 postseason games during this streak.

Independence Hall

Independence Hall• Here the Continental Congress sat from the

date it convened, May 10, 1775 until the close of the revolution, except when in 1776-77 it sat in Baltimore and in 1777-78 in Lancaster and York due to the temporary occupation of Philadelphia by the British army.

• On June 16, 1775 George Washington accepted his appointment by Congress as General of the continental army.

• On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted and on July 9, 1778 the Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states were adopted and signed.

• On November 3, 1781 twenty four standards, taken at the surrender at Yorktown, were laid at the feet of Congress and his excellency, the ambassador of France.

• On September 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States was adopted and signed.

• In this building sat the first Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States.

• George Washington was inaugurated President on March 4, 1793.

• John Adams was inaugurated the second president of the United States on March 4, 1797.

Christ Church

• Christ Church was founded in 1695 by members of the Church of England. As the first Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, Christ Church is the birthplace of the American Episcopal Church.

• The main body of the church was constructed between 1727 and 1744, and the steeple was added in 1754, making it the tallest building in North America at the time, at 60 meters.

• The baptismal font in which William Penn baptized is still in use at Christ Church. Christ Church's congregation included 15 signers of the Declaration of Independence. American Revolutionary War leaders who attended Christ Church include George Washington, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross.

• During the war, the Reverend William White (1748–1836), rector of Christ Church, served as Chaplain to both the Continental Congress and the United States Senate. White is buried in the church's chancel.

• Christ Church is a National Historic Lamdmark and a unique historic site that continues its original function as an Episcopal parish. More than 250,000 tourists visit the church each year.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.Babe Ruth

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Jackie Robinson

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

Lou Gehrig

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

Larry Doby

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Walt Whitman

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Ernie Banks