How the Yankees put the stadium in baseball

They came by the thousands. Mostly men, with their overcoats buttoned and hats pulled tight against the cold wind. They formed a river of black and brown and gray wool that surged toward an immense structure on 161st in the Bronx. The river's tributaries flowed from nearby subway stops, across the Macombs Dam Bridge from Manhattan and out of the 8,500 automobiles that clogged every avenue. All of them, all of the 100,000 people, came because they wanted a seat at the stadium, the coliseum of bas...