The ultimate Father’s Day Gift is taking him to a Yankee game. Even at the inflated prices of the New Yankee Stadium, nothing beats two tickets, a couple of beers and some random stadium food with your dad.

However, that’s not always an option, especially if they live a couple of thousand miles away from each other an Yankee Stadium. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t get him something Yankee related.

Yankee Stadium: Baseball’s Cathedral DVD (With Collectible Ticket & Coin)

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this DVD. I’ve even had non-Yankee fans say it was moving. If your father has ever been to a game at Yankee stadium, he’ll love this DVD.

Baseball’s epicenter sits at 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx, New York. For more than 80 years, fans and ballplayers have congregated on sultry summer days and chilly October nights to witness history. They cheer their hearts out, realize their dreams and heal their souls in this ultimate baseball cathedral. Yankee Stadium has meant so much to so many, and Yankees players and fans will enjoy one final season in the House That Ruth Built before making their way to the new Yankee Stadium in 2009.

Yankee Stadium: Baseball’s Cathedral will celebrate the entire spectrum that makes this ballpark the most talked about sports structure in the entire world. Contains an exclusive 85-Year Yankee Stadium Commemorative Ticket with Yankee Coin.

But this for $25 at Amazon.
Remembering Yankee Stadium Hardcover Book

I received this book as Christmas present last year and it was one of my favorite gifts that I received. Flipping through this book and looking at the amazing pictures brought back a lot of good memories.

Diamonds aren’t forever. After the 2008 season, the seemingly immortal “House That Ruth Built” will shut its gates forever—to be replaced by a brand-new stadium just a homer’s length away. As if anything could ever replace Yankee Stadium in the hearts and memories of New York Yankees’ fans.

Memories are what this book is about. From the moment it opened on April 18, 1923, Yankee Stadium was a phenomenon: It was more than double the size of any ballpark at the time. And what was happening on the field was just as phenomenal. In the third inning of that opening-day game, Babe Ruth hit the home run he deemed the most satisfying of his career. That fall, the stadium hosted the first of the many World Series games that would be played there over the ensuing 85 years.

And that, of course, was just the beginning. Remembering Yankee Stadium brilliantly and beautifully documents the stadium’s entire career through a decade-by-decade account, a priceless collection of historical photographs, and, most movingly, the vivid, first-person reminiscences of the people to whom this “citadel of sport” has meant so much: entertainers and politicians, broadcasters and sportswriters, players and fans. No Yankees fan—no baseball fan—will be able to resist this incredible book.

On Sale At Amazon For Less Than $30.

New York Yankees #1 Dad T-Shirt

Instead of getting him that #1 Dad Coffee Mug, get him the Yankee t-shirt.

Buy from the MLB Shop for $19.99.

New York Yankees General Manger Series Watch By Game Time

If you want to get something your father can wear, but you don’t want to get him a tie, check out this watch. It’s got some style and something that any father would be proud to wear on their wrist.

• Officially licensed team logo embossed in 23k gold
• 23k Gold accents on stainless steel case and bracelet
• Rotating bezel ring
• Miyota Quartz movement

Buy from the MLB Shop For $119.99.

New York Yankees Silk Tie

If you feel like you have to get him a tie, this is the only tie that is acceptable.

$39.99 at the MLB Shop.

Must Have Yankees Father’s Day Gifts is a post from: Stiletto Sports

My grandfather had Babe Ruth to cheer for.

My father got to watch Roger Maris.

I have the steroids era.

One by one, the heroes and legends that I admired have fallen off their pedestals.

Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa battled back and forth in 1998 for the home run title. I was glued to my television screen watching them beat the Roger Marris’s record of 61 home runs. Then in 2005, I was watching television again, but this time they were testifying in front of congress about steroids.

Roger Clemens led my beloved Yankees past the Mets in the 2000 World Series. In 2008, accusations that he used performance enhancing drugs in 2000 surfacned.

Alex Rodriguez was on pace to beat Barry Bonds for the most career home runs. He was going to be the player that didn’t need steroids to do it. Then after 553 home runs, we find out that he was using steroids.

Now, it’s Manny Ramirez who’s suspended for fifty games for using a banned substance.

They all had their denials – I didn’t know it was banned, I didn’t know I what I was injecting into my body – but their statements just make them look more dirty. They sound just as bad as the politicians that have been caught cheating on their wives and taking bribes.

But, we know we’re being lied to. We know a lot, if not most of the baseball players in the past ten or twenty years were using steroids. We may not want to believe it, but the evidence keeps growing.

There’s a good chance that there’s players that are using human growth hormones and other performance enhancing drugs today.

Of course, the owners, the teams and Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig should step up to the plate and perform stricter testing, find out who is really juiced and ban them for life.

My only question is “who’s next?”

I’m not the only one that is suspicious of every player that has stepped on to the field in the last twenty years.

It’s not going to stop me from going to the games or rooting for the Yankees every night on television, but what am I going to tell my grand kids? I got to see the greatest cheaters ever?

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Originally posted on Section 59.

The Greatest Cheaters Ever – The Steroids Era is a post from: Stiletto Sports

Some players are never completely accepted by the New York fans (A-Rod). Other fans like Nick Swisher practically earn their pinstripes over night.

After his first month of play, it’s no surprise that there’s a grassroots campaign to get Nick Swisher on to the All Star team.

He already has All Star numbers. In the first month of the season, he knocked out seven home runs, had 19 RBI’s, hit .300, had an OPS of 1.090 and an OBP of .427. What else can you ask for?

And this is all coming from a guy who was supposed to be sitting on the beach this season.

But it’s not just his numbers. Swisher is already a fan favorite because he’s a throwback player that’s always hustling and working hard. Plus, he has a positive attitude, always looking to do whatever it takes to make the team win.

In Tampa, he pitched one inning of relief against the Rays. He allowed only one hit, let up a walk and then retired the next three batters to end the inning. He’s the only player on the Yankees with a 0.00 ERA.

So, here’s what you need to do…

Visit the All Star Voting page and write him in. Don’t forget to vote for the other Yankees while you’re there. You can get all crazy and vote up to 25 times.

Then join the Vote Swisher group on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, then tell all your friends.

For more information, visit VoteSwisher.Com

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