What I remember was Casey Stengel, the old, bowlegged Yankee manager, leaving the mound with Ford after having taken him out of the game and actually apologizing to the sellout crowd in Yankee Stadium for doing it.
1 July 2011: OPLC director Dionne Knight is suspended after it emerges she worked for West Ham during their bid for the stadium, doing "paid consultancy work" without her manager's knowledge.
The former England all-rounder Dominic Cork, who was in the stadium to do commentary work for Pakistan TV, told Sky Sports News: "The Sri Lankan players are quite shocked.
But in his role as the government's point man for the World Cup and Olympics, he is also looking forward to what the stadium can do for Brazil's development.
"The move to the Cardiff City stadium was done for all the right reasons," added Holland.
In Giants Stadium, for example, we do not have the freedom to change the channel, or else Filip Bondy of The Daily News and I would be watching real footballers with Chelsea or Arsenal instead of those bloated lunkers down on the gridiron.
He predicts that the thousands who will turn up at the stadium will do so for the love of the king and not for the free food, as some have suggested.
"I think perhaps that people like Woody, who want to build the stadium, should do something for the theaters".
Fred Wilpon, the Mets' co-owner, yesterday threw out the possibility of Shea Stadium being done over for football, after a new baseball park rises next door.
But some in business and civic circles are saying that the stadium would do little for the city's economy other than enrich team owners.
Some say the stadium would do little for the city's economy other than enrich team owners, while others worry that the opposition will slow -- or even halt -- other elements of the project.
