Maggie's Farm

I know a bit about what Sarah would say in NYC. Here's what I'd like to say.

Good bye Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth built. You have been a senue without peer in this country for many decades. You hvae been home to the greatest baseball franchise in history. You have been ALL ALMERICAN.

Personally you are attched to me because my grandfather played on your diamond in the World Series of 1932, in the famous Ruth "called shot" series. He stood on your pitching rubber and in releaf retired The Babe, Lou Gehrig, and Red Ruffing in succession. Years later while working on Wall Street (something else gone as of today) I took my grandfather;s kifetime solid silver pass and got to stand in on that rubber and inagine the crowd and the feeling.

I never was a Yankee fan but I was always a Yankee fan. They were, and still are, the quintessential American team.

Good bye and with that goodby goes the hope that even in these tough money times we as a nation can find a way to save Ellis Island. It would be an absolute tragedy to allow it to pass away. It is a national treasure as much as a Yellowstone Park or a Mt Rushmore.