This is the Yankee Stadium 1923 opening program
. Yankees vs. the Red Sox. The price of the program was 15 cent. The eBay seller offering it has a BIN price of $6,000. Talk about inflation.
According to Wapedia, Yankee Stadium officially opened on April 18, 1923, with the Yankees' first home game. According to the New York Evening Telegram, "everything smelled of ...fresh paint, fresh plaster and fresh grass." At 3:00 p.m. John Philip Sousa led the Seventh ("Silk-Stocking") Regiment band in playing the Star-Spangled Banner. After a parade of the players and dignitaries, Babe Ruth was presented with a case containing a symbolically big bat. New York Governor Alfred E. Smith (who would become the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928) then threw out the first pitch directly into the glove of catcher Wally Schang rather than the customary couple of feet wide. The Yankees went on to defeat Ruth's former team, the Boston Red Sox, by a score of 4-1, with Ruth hitting a three-run home run into the right-field stands. Asked later for his opinion of the stadium, he replied, "Some ball yard."
