Location: Bronx, New York
Capacity: 52,325
Tenants: New York Yankees and the Pinstripe Bowl game for the NCAA
Baseball fans betting on the New York Yankees have come to enjoy the luxuries of Yankee Stadium, one of the biggest buildings in the world for sports. Bettors betting on the Yankees also know that when they are at home, they have been one of the best teams in all of baseball. From 1923 to 2008, the Yankees experienced much success at the old Yankee Stadium, located across the street from their current home ground.
Over the teams 85 year tenure in the house that Ruth built, the team enjoyed much success capturing 26 World Series titles. However, prior to moving into the new Yankee Stadium, the team began to feel as cursed as the rival Boston Red Sox, as before last year's World Series win to christen the new Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers had not won a championship in nine years. Conversely, although still playing at Fenway Park, the Red Sox were deemed as cursed for 86 years as prior to the team's 2004 World Series victory, they had not won a championship since trading Ruth to the Yankees after the 1918 season.
Although finally switching to a new stadium last season in 2009, talk of building a new Yankee Stadium, has been around since the 1980s. Yankee owner George Steinbrenner claimed in the 80s that the old Yankee Stadium was not safe, and that he would consider moving the team to New Jersey, to reside in the West Side Stadium which was being built on behalf of the NFL's New York Jets. However, near the end of former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's tenure in office, he supposedly reached agreements with both the Yankees and interstate rival the New York Mets on building a new stadium.
On the contrary, the next Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg created an opt out clause for the city to get out of funding the creation of both stadiums via tax payer money. As a result, construction on the new Yankee Stadium did not commence until 2006 and would not open until April 2 nd 2009.