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April 4, 2006
Ex-Yank Bouton cries foul
Ex-Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton calls a foul over the Yankee Stadium plan and makes a larger point about taxpayer-financing of sports venues:
“I don’t know how a businessman can walk into a community with overcrowded schools and ask that city for a dime,” he said. “That’s what’s happening in New York City. In Pittsfield they were turning out streetlights; in New York City they’re closing firehouses. The city’s in this huge debt mode, and they’re going to spend hundreds of millions on a stadium?”
Posted by lumi at April 4, 2006 7:50 AM