New York Yankees Museum, Monument Park a delightful stroll
A walk through the Bronx toward Yankee Stadium on this warm summer day feels like a delightful stroll through baseball history. There’s a mural of Yogi Berra and Elston Howard on a garage door on 161st Street. Two doors down, another mural depicts a young Mickey Mantle, perhaps keeping watch over the neighborhood he once owned. On the bridge crossing the highway is a billboard promoting “The Captain,” the ESPN documentary on Yankees legend Derek Jeter. Outside the historic stadium, just past Gate 6, hangs a light-pole banner featuring an iconic image of The Babe, the big fella who once walloped homers across the street at old Yankee Stadium, the “House That Ruth Built.” Babe surfaces again in the lobby of Yankee Stadium, sharing a wall with Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee Clipper. Inside, even a…
