But ultimately it’s a facsimile: a new stadium hiding in throwback clothing. As hard as it tries — and it really tries — it can’t re-create the original Yankee Stadium’s spirit.

Dodgers Pantone 294. The Bronx Bombers vs. the Dem Bums’ descendants. The granite-and-limestone of new Yankee Stadium on chilly autumn nights vs. Dodger Stadium in sunny Chavez Ravine ...

Dodgers Pantone 294. The Bronx Bombers vs. the Dem Bums’ descendants. The granite-and-limestone of new Yankee Stadium on chilly autumn nights vs. Dodger Stadium in sunny Chavez Ravine ...

But that was at Old Yankee Stadium, which was demolished in 2010. The ghosts did not make their way across the street to New Yankee Stadium.

The synergy continued the following year, as Jay-Z teamed with Eminem for the first concert at the new Yankee Stadium. "This was exactly what we needed," Nick Swisher said years later. "This was the ...