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September 19, 2008
The More Things Change..., Yankees Edition
The New York Times
by Richard Sandomir
This morsel comes from a story in today's Times about the coming auction of many of the original hand-drawn blueprints for the first Yankee Stadium, designed and built by the Osborn Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio, leading stadium architects of the early days of Major League baseball.
[Memorabilia dealer Mitch] Baker is also selling letters between the [Yankees] and Osborn, including one to Frank Osborn in which [then-Yankees' owner Jacob] Ruppert wrote, “Enclosed is a check for $3,332, minus the $88.20 you charged for taxes we don’t feel we have to pay you.” [Emphasis added]
Posted by eric at September 19, 2008 1:58 PM