August 3, 2006
Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. Located at East 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, New York City, it originally opened on April 18, 1923 and reopened on April 15, 1976 after an extensive three year renovation. The first night game was played on May 28, 1946.
Yankee Stadium is often referred to as “The House that Ruth Built”, but usually as simply “The Stadium”. It was the first baseball park to be labeled a “Stadium” rather than a “Field,” a “Park,” or a “Grounds,” and it conformed to the usage of the term in ancient Greece, where a stadium was a foot-race arena. Yankee Stadium’s field was initially surrounded by a (misshapen) quarter-mile running track. That track effectively also served as an early “warning track” for fielders, a feature now standard in all major league ballparks.
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Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne
Seats: 130,000
Inauguration: 1927
August 1, 2006
Rico Coliseum arena in Toronto
Club: Toronto Marlies (AFL)
Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, USA is home to The University of Texas at Austin Longhorn football team. The current official stadium capacity is 80,082, but an attendance record of 84,082 people occurred in 1999 during a game against the University of Nebraska.
As of 2005-2006, the stadium is undergoing renovations, with stage one consisting mainly of updates in concordance with newer fire safety codes and stage two consisting of seating expansion in the north end zone.
The stadium was commissioned to replace Clark Field and its old wooden bleachers. Originally, named Memorial Stadium and built in 1924, the new stadium had a capacity of 27,000. It was designed as a dual-purpose facility with a 440-yard track surrounding the football field.
Memorial Stadium was dedicated to the memory of all University alumni who had died in World War I. Since, the stadium has been rededicated to all alumni in all American wars. The University of Texas honored legendary football coach Darrell K. Royal in 1996 by officially naming the stadium after him. In 1997, in recognition of UT law school alumnus and benefactor Joe Jamail, the University named the football playing field Joe Jamail Field.
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Villa Park, in Birmingham, England; is the stadium at which Aston Villa Football Club play their home games.
The Aston Villa legend, Billy Walker summed up Villa Park when he said “About Villa Park itself hung an aura that seems almost to be visible. Most certainly it is there to be felt and I know of no other ground that has the same effect on one. Almost it seems to be peopled by ghosts - amiable ghosts whose job it is to breathe the great Villa spirit into generation after generation of ambitious youngsters who pass through the great gates to achieve a life’s ambition; to wear the famous claret and blue of the great club.”
Opened in 1897, the year Aston Villa won the League and FA Cup ‘Double’, it was officially called the Aston Lower Grounds, on the site of a Victorian amusement park in the former grounds of a Jacobean stately home, Aston Hall. Once the site of a fishpond and kitchen garden belonging to Sir Thomas Holte, the owner of Aston Hall. This is where the name of the legendary Holte End came from. The pitch was initially surrounded by a 24 foot wide concrete cycle track and a cinder running track. Many athletics and cycle events were staged here prior to the First World War. The running track was removed in 1922 when work started on the Trinity Road Stand and the ground was squared off. The Trinity Road Stand was demolished in 2001 and replaced by a larger modern stand. It is commonly regarded as one of the best football grounds in England.
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