![]() Those dimensions and the seating capacity would be altered over the years, and the Bloody Angle would be snuffed out prior to the 1924 season when the plate was moved in 13 feet. The other side, however, seemed to be an engraved invitation for Ruth: 255 feet down the right-field line to 367 in front of the bullpen gate to 423 in right center.Īn overhang of the right-field bleachers created what would be known as "The Bloody Angle" – an intrusion into fair territory that abetted wild caroms and waking nightmares for right fielders. The distance of the left-field pole was a meager 255 feet, but that was neutralized by the steep rise to 395 feet at the gate of the left-field bullpen and then from 474 feet in the alley to 500 feet in center. Inside, the lucky ones saw the pecularities of the five-sided plot of land on which the Stadium stood sentry. After fire marshals at last turned away another 10,000 at the gates, ticket hawkers tacked on 15 cents to the $1.10 price of a grandstand seat and tried to move their wares while ducking police detectives tasked with stopping them. The official capacity was 58,000, but in those days fire codes were either nonexistent or casually enforced, which allowed the attendance to swell to perhaps 70,000. ![]() Yankee Stadium was big and bad like its warrior-poet Babe Ruth – like its titular hometown nine soon would be – and it authored a reimagining: that the "ballpark" could be elevated and sprawled into the realm of "stadium." And so it was the first ballpark to be called a stadium.Įlevated train cars came and went, Ford Model T's queued along the roads, and the largest crowd in baseball history at that time swarmed the turnstiles well in advance of the 3:30 start time. The original design of Yankee Stadium of course reflected some geographic limitations, but its final presence looked and felt like an unyielding one. In that way, it augured a coming era in which ballparks would no longer tuck into their existing neighborhoods but rather barge in with shoulders wide and arms akimbo. Unlike Wrigley, Fenway, Shibe, Crosley or others of the prior generation, Yankee Stadium defied words like "cozy" or "intimate" at every grand angle. It was not the first stadium to be raised up in the medium of modern construction materials, but it was the most hulking, the most impossible-seeming. Then it devoured 20,000 yards of concrete four million feet of lumber 800 tons of re-bar 2,200 tons of steel beams and channels and angles and plates 13,000 yards of topsoil and 116,000 square feet of Merion Bluegrass sod one million screws of brass. The forging of the stadium at 161st and River displaced 45,000 cubic yards of Bronx soil. There had been a farm there, granted to John Lion Gardiner just prior to the Revolutionary War, and then a sawmill, and the surrounding sweeps of land seemed more suited to just that – an old farm or sawmill – rather than what now scraped the sky.Īnd what loomed above, three decks high, was a concrete-and-steel colossus unexampled in sports and certainly baseball. Those same winds whirled the eight-foot copper baseball bat that served as a weathervane from atop the in-play flagpole in center field. The wind whipped up dust from the dirt roads and vacant lots abutting the ballpark that now rose from the planed-out soil of city plot 2106, lot 100. By joining MHEDA, we not only expanded our network within the material handling community, but also have ensured we remain on the cutting edge of industry technology and expertise.On April 18, 1923, it was a brisk 49 degrees in New York City, a spring in name only. Sentry President Norm Cowden said, “The best way to stay competitive in any market is to be an active member of the industry. ![]() This is achieved through precise and accurate estimates, experienced site management, skilled labor, and qualified commissioning support. The division supports the company’s material handling industry partners by providing a safe and flawless installation of their controls and automation projects. Jim Metheney, who has over 22 years of material handling expertise, leads Sentry’s Industrial Controls and Automation (IC&A) division. As an active partner of the association, Sentry employees join thousands of other members in accessing programs and services to not only stay connected, but broaden industry knowledge and contacts to keep Sentry’s material handling business competitive.Īs part of MHEDA’s network of industry professionals, Sentry employees are able to access professional development programs, as well as benchmarking and networking opportunities, all specific to the material handling industry. Sentry Electrical Group, Inc., has joined the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA)-a material handling trade association serving over 600 members throughout the United States.
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