ONE LAST THING…

My boy Joey La Pep, a die-hard Met fan, sent me the following e-mail this afternoon:

From yesterday’s New York City desktop calender:

1921, Feb. 6
“The New York Yankees announce the purchase of 10 acres of land in the west Bronx to build a new stadium. The land, across the Harlem River from the Yankees’ current playing field, the Polo Grounds, is purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000. The Yankees have been sharing the Polo Grounds with the National League’s Giants, who own the stadium, but after 8 years this is no longer an option because Yankees attendance in 1920 surpasses that of the Giants, who ask the Yankees to find a new field. Contruction of the new stadium commences May 5, 1922, and is completed by opening day the following year, April 18, 1923.”

That’s the fact, Jack.