This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 12/10/2001.
The renovation of Yankee Stadium in 1973 unearthed a collector's paradise, with just about every cinder and splinter removed having been a part of baseball's most hallowed shrine. One of the more intriguing items uprooted was the home plate dish from the old Yankee bullpen in the rightfield alley between the grandstand and bleachers. Because the plate had previously been used on the field, one can only imagine if "The Bambino", "The Iron Horse", "Joe D" and "The Mick" had stood over it and tapped on it with their lumber between pitches, and if Yogi Berra had blocked it to tag out a runner coming in from third (or if Jackie Robinson had gotten his toe on it before Yogi's tag in the 1955 World Series). Such reveries are as much a part of the dish as its chipped and cracked white paint and its wooden base and three spikes that planted it in the turf. The plate comes with a letter of authenticity from the demolition company that dug it up.